How did you guys save up for your PC?

[Wano97]

Dad bought me a macbook pro, I spilled soup over it, he bought me a new, better one. Sold it for a 1000 euros after 1.5years, it was christmas so i got money from my family as a christmas present. 

[Scia]

Well it started at 2700$, then I added 2 monitors for about 1000$ then I added a few SSDs for about 300$ then I bought a 2nd 680 at 420$ then I replaced my RAM for 200$ upgraded to a 290x for 600$ and a Soundcard for 200$ and liquidcooling for about 1000$ including all the blocks / changes and the likes sooo I've spent about 6200$ on what's sitting next to me including all the stuff now sitting next to it and not inside of it or in my linux box and so on and so forth...

Where I got the money, well I have an automated transfer of some of my money / month to a 2nd acc that I usually empty around Xmas for PC parts ^^

[tobben]

Dad bought me a macbook pro, I spilled soup over it, he bought me a new, better one. Sold it for a 1000 euros after 1.5years, it was christmas so i got money from my family as a christmas present. 

uhm.. not sure if i deciphered this properly .... so basicly your family just gives you lots of stuff?.

[tovleander]

It cost me $1951
Used some of my payout each 14 days to buy part after part

[jamese669]

inheritance from when my grandad and nan died

[CowsGoMoo32]

I am sitting here reading this and I really and saying how the fuck did I get the like $2500 in less then 2 years and I am only 14. I mow lawns, shovel driveways, and have a "real job" that I work when I can. Lucky ass bitches here get money from their parents.....

[Osmium]

Dealing dru-err I mean mowing lawns

[Purple]

1 penny per view

I got a lot of views

[cjeffcoatjr]

Mine was a split Christmas present. I paid $150 of it, mom+dad payed the other $300

[MeltyMoon]

I saved for 2 and a half years, and none of those original parts are even in my pc now  <_<

[tS_kStin]

Saving Birthday cash for a long time and then working a job over the summer.

[linusforsell]

I earned my first computer roughly 10 years ago by helping out at a local computer repair and retailer, somehow these guys are still around. It leaves me baffled. They know nothing about computers, so little that a 11-12 year old me were of help to them—Obviously they couldn't pay me in money, so I was given a refurbished Dell tower as compensation. 

 

Any subsequent builds, well, they were built with money I worked hard for. It gets a lot easier to earn money for hardware as you grow older though, once you're through a decent college education in an attractive field, people will line up to give you work (granted you've made your presence clear from an earlier point in time, and you've made sure you're the best at what you do (which isn't hard if you dedicate your life to it)). You'll just have to go with the highest bidder and you're set for life – Well, that's until you decide it's time to do something more worthwhile, like trying to change the world or something.

[Logan2012]

Unemployment checks.

I'm probably sounding like a arrogant thirteen year old but is this where some of are taxes goto, the unemployed

[Toggle]

I picked up trash along the state highways where I live for a month. Wasnt the most pleasant work but it certainly allowed me to build my PC.

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

Have to take care of 5 cats and 2 dogs (until recently when we had to put one down  ) and everything else my moms needs me to do around the house gets me about $50 a month. I also took care of my aunt after knee surgery and that landed me about $100. Various other things and I saved up about $550 from like July till now and I am getting my stuff for Xmas

[Ja Krispie]

I have a good paying job, so I just used a paycheck and got the parts. All together it came out to around $1500. It's a bit more since I bought new parts and replaced them. 

[DLM_012]

A combination of doing odd jobs for people both computer and non-computer related and my retail job that I worked last holiday season. The job got me my 7950, 8350, and 1440p monitor. 

[notaniel101]

I worked mowing lawns since I was 12, worked in a warehouse at 15, and collected Christmas and birthday money for years. I built my pc in 2012, so I was 16 then. It came out to around $1500 if I remember right. Of course now iv'e replaced the gpu, twice now, the psu, and the case. Other than that it's been running great.

 

Just built a second one for "free" because of mining profits.

[L_Dub]

Worked all summer and spent all the money on repairing my car and the rest on a computer, it totaled about 1100 or so if i remember right

[old reece frost]

Saving Christmas + Birthday money over 2 years.

 

Also, sold Xbox

Edited December 17, 2013 by evilHamsterzZz

[flibberdipper]

ZEUS is wholly mine. My mom paid for it, for the most part. Silly me, when I was 11 I thought my little Northwood was a quad-core. Now I know a lot better. But I only paid $30 for a BRAND FREAKING NEW processor. So still not a bad deal. The motherboard was about $40, almost new, and the video card was about $15, almost new. Already had the hard drives and a couple other things.

 

All in all, I've spent a total of $350-450 on ZEUS. And it's served my very well. That's why I'm planning on having my mom buy more parts for it for me on Christmas.

[deafboy]

Internships

[Stonep11]

My job more some, gifts for some (my monitor, mouse, motherboard).  About $3000 for everything, but the panel is old.

[StormEye]

Just working.

 

Upgraded parts over the years, almost in impulse buying fashion, though.

[jjtoutt]

About $4000 over two years