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Work, Repair some stuff for family and friends and ask some money for the jobs and I buy some used hardware and build computers and sell them with a llittle profit.

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Tax refund and 6 months no interest on Newegg... I spent around $1400 (USD) on new parts and used some old parts. It will be fully mine in July.  :P

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With any luck I might be getting my GeForce GTX 660 at some point in the next month or so

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Mom helped me with some of the hardware (19 y/o) but 90% of everything in my system I bought using money from fixing computers, electronics, and my temp job I held last holiday season.

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I saved for each item, was a little long winded way to do it but getting my final part in the mail ( the case, antec p280 ) omg i was time to do it.

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I just amounted the money over time. My parents would tell me to put my money in a bank account. So I did and now ive got £400 in there and about £300 on me. Then im getting money for the grade A that i get in my upcoming exams.

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I probably shouldn't admit this and feel ashamed... But school bursaries and birthday/Christmas money :P

Quietly crafting hamsters to do my bidding

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I bought my $500 build with saved up Christmas/Birthday money, Newegg Black November Sales, and tons of time researching price/performance for each part I bought =P

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Disability payments. It's nice to see so many young people out there into computers and building them I gotta say. Beats drugs and hanging around on street corners any day :)

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i diet and spend my food money on hardware :3 its usually how i get in shape for summer XD gotta <3 being able to wear a bikini :3 

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My mother was gracious enough to fund my build in preparation for going off to school. :) I had never had a computer all to myself before so that makes me feel slightly less guilty about it haha.

 

But now for anything other than college expenses, I'm on my own.  Good thing I managed to get a summer job. :P

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I saved my lunch money. £3 a day, 5 days a week.

 

It took a while...

 

^This. It took a LONG time. £15 a week for about 30 months.

Been saving up for this since I was 11 :P

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Just over $5000 including peripherals and afforded through working haha  :D Anyone still in school my advice is work for one year and build yourself something to tide you over for 3-4 years of your uni/college course and then once you get your proper job go all out like I did!  :)

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all i asked for for Christmas was money,and i got enough for the computer itself (750$) now i need a good 1080p monitor (Mine now is only 1024x768 and a good mechanical keyboard. 

So... your current monitor has the same resolution as an ipad? XD

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around $5000 with peripherals. Got money from injuries I had in a car accident. I got it for work so its a complete write off!  :D

 

I got it built right when sandy bridge came out. 3930k, 32GB RAM, 120GB SSD, 1TB storage drive, and GTX 580. 

 

My Biggest regret is that I didnt build it myself :( Next build I am building myself! 

Rig specs: 3930k | 32GB RAM | GTX580 | Asus PB278 | Corsair K90 | Logitech G700 | HD558's 

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my poorly paying job.

My Timewaster: i5 3570k @ 4.4GHz 1.19v, Asus P8Z77-V, Noctua NH-D14, Sapphire Radeon HD 7850, 16 GB Corsair Vengance, 128GB Samsung 830 SSD, HAF 912, Logitech G710+, G700

 

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Some fun summer programs that gave me a stipend at the end for the days i participated.

Did that for 4 summers.

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I saved up enough to get a working PC with the parts I wanted, I already had some bad HDD's lying around, and a optical drive. So, I am slowly replacing those parts with newer ones as I can afford it! My YouTube channel now helps a little.

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Baby sitting money... Also Christmas money from family and friends :) being young is handy not going to lie...

PROFILEYEAH

What do people even put in these things?

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Currently I can afford anything withing reason as I have a full-time job.

When I was younger, school/college I took summer jobs and saved money which I got from repairing computers.

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I afforded my rig by buying the parts piece by piece. First bought a PSU then mobo and CPU, onto the ram and SSD. Then a GPU and finally the case. Took a couple months but it made a $1000 PC feel like I didn't spend a lot on it because of how spaces out the parts were bought

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Unemployment checks.

why do i even bother working? :p

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  • 6 months later...
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teaching kids to swim at my local swimming club $14/hr 

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CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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Took on some extra work during the summer and threw my money at computers.

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