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What Job did you have when you first started saving for a PC?

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PC technician :P but I had a couple of PCs that my parents bought for me before that infact during that I bought my first GPU upgrade (for a PC my father bought) a XFX 8800GTS by exploiting a bingo type of game in a primitive casino website :P (I made a program caching all the results and noticed that a couple of numbers appeared much more frequently than others and made small bets on those numbers :P ) then I upgraded that GPU with a XFX 9800GX2 black edition card whith money from drop-shipping paintball parts :P I really wasnt doing anything I just ordered the parts from the manufacturer once somebody was interested to buy them from listings I made and the manufacturer shipped said parts to them I was just receiving money sending money to the manufacturer and pocketing the difference not even played paintball once in my life xD

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I got my current PC as a gift but I work at Home Depot and am saving up for a full system over-haul at some point next year

CPU: Core i9 12900K || CPU COOLER : Corsair H100i Pro XT || MOBO : ASUS Prime Z690 PLUS D4 || GPU: PowerColor RX 6800XT Red Dragon || RAM: 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance (3200) || SSDs: Samsung 970 Evo 250GB (Boot), Crucial P2 1TB, Crucial MX500 1TB (x2), Samsung 850 EVO 1TB || PSU: Corsair RM850 || CASE: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini || MONITOR: Acer Predator X34A (1440p 100hz), HP 27yh (1080p 60hz) || KEYBOARD: GameSir GK300 || MOUSE: Logitech G502 Hero || AUDIO: Bose QC35 II || CASE FANS : 2x Corsair ML140, 1x BeQuiet SilentWings 3 120 ||

 

LAPTOP: Dell XPS 15 7590

TABLET: iPad Pro

PHONE: Galaxy S9

She/they 

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Retail worker, made minimum wage.

 

Budget of 1500, I didn't know much about pc's so my brother did up the build:

i5 4670 w/ stock cooler

msi z87-g45 motherboard

8gb of 1333mhz ram (added another 16 not long after)

Radeon 280x (upgraded to a 1070 2 years later)

Pizza is the best food group

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I was in elementary school and took a paper route.  Expected to spend about $500 by re-using a few parts, but the motherboard I got was DOA and I couldn't RMA it, so my first build was delayed by 2-3 years while I built up funds again.  Since then I've felt nothing but fear when purchasing new parts. 

If I have to explain every detail, I won't talk to you.  If you answer a question with what can be found through 10 seconds of googling, you've contributed nothing, as I assure you I've already considered it.

 

What a world we would be living in if I had to post several paragraphs every time I ask a question.

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Job : Laptop buying consultant and building PC for other people. And I also fix laptop and PC

 

Customers : Families, Friends, and Neighbors.

 

Ammount Paid : Not much really, but the experience is part of it I guess.

 

Budget : Planning an doing $1200 PC including monitor.

 

Got That PC Yet???

 

Ehh........ no, not yet LOL

 

 

Remember! Reality Is An Illusion, The Universe Is A Hologram, Buy GOLD! Byeeee!!!

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Got a job working at a deli in a super market. My money from that was all disposable income so I spent it on my first pc. Forget the year but it was a year or two before the 900 series was released.

 

4790k

120gb ssd

1tb hdd

780ti 6gb

1200watt psu

Nzxt phantom case

Asus maximus mobo

16gb of ram

Corsair keyboard and mouse 

Asus 4k 60hz monitor (this was back when 4k was still new so having this monitor was amazing for the time. Amazing how tech moves forward now we have oled 120+ hz 4k gsync free sync etc)

CPU: 6700K Case: Corsair Air 740 CPU Cooler: H110i GTX Storage: 2x250gb SSD 960gb SSD PSU: Corsair 1200watt GPU: EVGA 1080ti FTW3 RAM: 16gb DDR4 

Other Stuffs: Red sleeved cables, White LED lighting 2 noctua fans on cpu cooler and Be Quiet PWM fans on case.

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While I didn't use my job to save for my first build, I worked at a Giant store in my local area. 

 

Specs:

CPU: AMD Phenom II x4

CPU cooler: Stock

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3

Memory: 12GB of G.Skill DDR3 value memory

Graphics card: GTX 560 Ti

Boot/general storage drive: WD 320GB hard drive

Power supply: Corsair TX750 non-modular

Chassis: Antec DF-85

 

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

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Depends what do you define as "PC"

 

My first one was in 1983 working part time after school back in Europe.

 

It  was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum  16 KB total memory...

 

 

First real PC, in Canada was in 1996, working as mechanic.

 

Paid $2600 Canadian, and it was a Compaq Something (Presario?), 486- 66, 4 MB RAM, I think a CD Rom dive and 420MB HD

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Built my first computer about a year after i joined the Army. So my budget was a months pay because as pretty much all other privates i didn't do saving :P  so probably around $1200 or so is what i spent on it.

It was early 2004 and I know it was AMD because i have literally never built an intel system, but as far as specs i have no idea. There was a mom and pops computer shop about 15 min from post so i bought everything there.

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I just did basic labor work (raking, moving stuff, etc). I got my list of parts and kept doing jobs until I had enough money. It took me about 5 months and then I had a new case, power supply, motherboard, ram, CPU, and my brother helped my out with the graphics side. The list of parts I have are listed below.

I'm usually as lost as you are

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I was a TA at the time. i7-2700k and a GTX 670. 

"And I'll be damned if I let myself trip from a lesser man's ledge"

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