How did you guys save up for your PC?

[Blecter]

I looked in my bank account, realized that I was debt free minus my truck, accepted that my laptop was 3.5 years old, saw a bunch of sales on NCIX being Christmas/New Years, filled my cart and checked out.

 

There are benefits to being good with money, and being locked into a good paying salary position.

 

Pretty easy to save, especially when I don't smoke, or drink often.

[MG2R]

Blood, sweat, and tears. That's about it, pretty much. If you work a couple weekends, you can make enough to buy a decent starter's machine Just upgrade in evolutionary steps from there.

[Levis95l]

I worked last summer and used about 50% of the money I earned (~1500€) to a new PC. Maybe I spent a bit too much - I could have gone with a cheaper motherboard, PSU and case at least. But then again, the motherboard has wlan and good audio built in, the PSU has 7 year warranty and the case has plenty of room for future upgrades.

[DroPouT1999]

Got a job (about 30 quid a week..)

[Foxxer]

I woke up in a new bugatti.. er, I work, that's how

[Fred Castellum]

I looked in my bank account, realized that I was debt free minus my truck, accepted that my laptop was 3.5 years old, saw a bunch of sales on NCIX being Christmas/New Years, filled my cart and checked out.

 

There are benefits to being good with money, and being locked into a good paying salary position.

 

Pretty easy to save, especially when I don't smoke, or drink often.

Allocating money well huh? Good job mate!~

[Nickolas47]

worked as a waiter for a whole summer

[Guest]

I teach and do research and my PC is one of the things that I get to buy because of that. Life eh!

[Wano97]

I got some christmas money and I've sold my macbook pro which I've had for 2-3 years, which my dad bought me

[I Am The Stig]

Tax return 

[noca1000]

I saved all the money I got for over a year

[E.Beadle]

House Expenses include groceries
Rent
Utility BIlls
Cell phone 
Internet bill

Car Exepenses
Gas
Insurance
Payment
Oil change
other fixes needed

All other outgoing cashflow..

Total out the outgoing cashflow.

Income:
Total Month Income... 

Subtract larger amount from smaller amount. DO NOT LIVE OUTSIDE OF THESE MEANS.. 

Throw savings inside of a christmas club account or an account that gains high interest.  Pull out at the end of the year. 

Its about financing. Anything I've ever got it is a once a month treatment. 

You can also pull out a loan for it to help build up your credit. 

[AMD Lover]

I have a job and dont have anything else to put money into so all the money from that went into my PC, lol

[Antistatic12]

Car accident.

WOW, your alright though aye??

I hope it wasn't to serious.

 

[Bonsai99]

Bitcoins and Altcoins (Mostly Infinitecoin)

The relatively small amount of altcoins I had increased around 5 fold in price and the price of bitcoin increased around 10 fold in price.

I flipped out when I saw how much my coins were worth after they had sat dormant in wallets for a few months.

[Chuck Norris]

Don't eat for a couple months.

[GuruMeditationError]

I keep putting money into it a little at a time and try and climb the upgrade curve in increments. I've had computer components sitting around since the end of last year waiting until enough of it arrives to build a working rig.

 

I kludge wherever possible and to try and delay upgrading as long as possible so that I can get more for my money (the P.C. I'm currently working on I've basically raised from the dead about six times (where most users would assume it just got old and broke and would buy a new one)).

 

Basically I retro-game, so things are a bit less expensive because I don't really need cutting edge hardware. I'll probably be playing in nVidia 3D around the time that everyone else is adopting Occulus / Morpheus etc. and running 1080p at high frame rates while everyone else has moved to 4k (if not for needing a new monitor for nVidia 3D (and to finally be free of the one bright-red stuck pixel in my current monitor) I might have skipped G-Synch entirely outside of a headset V.R. environment.

 

If you're asking how I justify spending so much on it (these days basically almost all of my available money), because it brings me a lot of happiness. Plus I'm getting ready for headset V.R. which I've been interested in since I was in high-school when I saw an article in a game review magazine reporting a prototype V.R. headset made with two Sony Watchmans strapped together and a bunch of Commodore Amigas stuck together. The contact details for the people building it was a fax number. I ran around trying to find someone who could help me fax these guys but to no avail (I used to tell people I wanted to explore Cyber Space). :rolleyes:  

[DeViLzzz]

I punch cats in the face in public and tell people I will stop if they give me money to buy pc parts.  So far it has worked out pretty good.

[felixthemaster1]

I worked in a hospital for a few months before I got fired and got a nice fat check because student income can't be taxed. Asked my parents some more money for my birthday and built it.

[CaptainJolly]

I fixed computers, waited for the right price for the right parts and slowly built up the machine I have today.

[JustTooDank]

He will kill me. Literary..

He will read you to death?

[TheKDub]

Saved the moderate amount of money that I get from birthdays, help my parents friends with things, lots and lots of painting ($10 an hour ), and getting a job.

a big thing: NOT SPENDING ANYTHING! (Or spending very little)

[SatoshiNan]

have a stable job , can buy any mid range pc within 2-3 months

[FireofDestruction]

well i turns out i had* 176 stocks in a company thats like 20,000+ dollars (and another 100 in some german car company) and i convinced my mother (currently my father is away and knows nothing and i dont actually have my rig just waiting on some stuff) i had to write a 5 page essay as to why the computer was necessary once that was done sold like 16 stocks and waited for that 2010 check, plus i've been mowing lawns for my 15 neighbors for like $20 ($30 for all bushes and edging done too) dollars a week and thats gone to my collage funds but i withdrew like 200 extra so yep

[SkilledRebuilds]

So I found a case inside a friends garage, offered $10 for it and whatever is inside.

S939 Board, 4 ram slots, PCIE and Sata

Athlon 3200+ (Single core 2000Mhz)

1.75GB Ram (over 3 slots)

40GB IDE

(I have a spare 430w PSU, 4890 for testing, 19" 900p screen, keyb n mouse)

Already done the usual install of W7, drivers for the mobo, single core mode for now, have left it in working order and off until parts arrive.

So far, $10 in...

Athlon x2 4400+ Dualcore 2.2Ghz (OC'ing to 2.6Ghz is the goal) has been ordered for $20 pp

3x 1GB DDR400 (I have the other 1Gb stick already) has been ordered for $21 pp total.

$51 in so far...

This so far has been within the last week.. spare bits of cash here n there.

Awaiting these parts THEN...

Ordering

500GB 7200RPM drive $48

+ 32GB Sandisk Readycache on top $51

Should make for some snappy storage, and is the highest costing setup so far, plenty doable even if saving.

 

The 4890 will have to go, I want DX11 even if I cannot push it properly with my weak x2 cores.

5850-5870 originally on mind (shaders galore) and then decided to source a 7850 $100-130

Should end up being around $250-300 MAX for a 'plenty capable' machine with smooth enough gameplay.

This is for a 1440x900p machine, perfect sweet spot for an aged machine.

 

Random bits of money here and there for a pet project that means nothing to most people, but keeps me busy.