What would you do with $10,000?

[Alcarin]

Pay off as much of my student loan debt as I can. Would take a pretty decent bite out of it. 

[rrats]

Buy a GPU in 2021

[itsSui]

Pay off my student loans ( $3000 ) , $2000 worth of food for Less Fortunate , Fix My Wifes Car ( ~$1000 ) , Invest $4000 in my Business , Get a Fluffy Long Hair Baby Cow ( Priceless )

[Alder Lake]

On 11/24/2021 at 12:13 PM, EDKTech said:

What would you do if you had $10,000?

 

I would:

Build an awesome PC 

Buy a Nintendo Switch OLED

Buy an iPad Pro

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i9-12900K 3.2 GHz 16-Core Processor  ($619.99 @ Best Buy) 
Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS Z690 EXTREME EATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($1000.00) 
Memory: GeIL Polaris RGB SYNC 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5200 CL34 Memory  ($740.00) 
Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($309.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: Samsung 870 QVO 8 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($749.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB Founders Edition Video Card  ($1200.00) 
Case: Corsair 1000D ATX Full Tower Case  ($514.99 @ Walmart) 
Power Supply: Corsair AXi 1600 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($1120.00) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit  (Purchased For $139.88) 
Monitor: BenQ EW3280U 32.0" 3840x2160 60 Hz Monitor  (Purchased For $699.00) 
Monitor: Gigabyte AORUS FO48U 47.5" 3840x2160 Monitor  ($1399.99 @ B&H) 
Mouse: Glorious PC Gaming Race Model O Wireless Optical Mouse  (Purchased For $100.00) 
Custom: Elgato - Game Capture HD60 S+  ($178.99 @ Best Buy) 
Custom: Cryo Cooler ($292.55)
Total: $9065.37
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-12-08 09:23 EST-0500

[DANK_AS_gay]

A car, currently I ride my bike to work, and I often lose feeling in my fingers on my way there. I would buy a car that's about $6,000 (already have $1400 saved), leaving about $5000. I would then spend that on better speakers for my home setup, buy an XBox series X, and save the remaining $2000 (or more) for something in the future (sim racing setup, gaming pc, 120hz 4k TV with full HDR support, something like that anyways)

[Inkz]

Pay off debt and invest the rest

[CT854]

Pay off debt, invest in a server rack for mass file storage, and save/invest the rest.

[sub68]

I want camera gear.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1573879-REG/canon_eos_r5_mirrorless_digital.html

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1510031-REG/canon_rf_70_200mm_f_2_8l_is.html

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1548395-REG/fujifilm_16652893_x_t4_mirrorless_digital_camera.html

 

Canon R5 with 24-105 and a 70-200 f2.8

Fujifilm XT4 with 16-80 f4 with a 35mm or 50mm

 

[Donut417]

Here are a few options I would consider 

 

1) Black Jack and Hookers

2) Pay off some of my student loan debt 

3) New 4K TV and maybe a gaming Laptop 

4) See about using it towards building a studio shed out back 

5) Invest it and maybe make some more money 

[Cool Dude 101]

Put it in saving don't touch it for 10 years. Then buy a computer.

[Donut417]

48 minutes ago, Cool Dude 101 said:

Put it in saving don't touch it for 10 years.

Not sure what your savings account pays for interest, but I see about a .01% at my bank. Thats not going to be too much even in 10 years. 

[Cool Dude 101]

I don't have a savings account,  but I would put it in there so I don't spend it on something stupid. 

[IPD]

6 hours ago, Cool Dude 101 said:

I don't have a savings account,  but I would put it in there so I don't spend it on something stupid. 

IRA will also suit that purpose.  Apart from paying off outstanding debt, retirement funds are probably the wisest thing to spend it on.

[DANK_AS_gay]

20 hours ago, sub68 said:

I want camera gear.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1573879-REG/canon_eos_r5_mirrorless_digital.html

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1510031-REG/canon_rf_70_200mm_f_2_8l_is.html

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1548395-REG/fujifilm_16652893_x_t4_mirrorless_digital_camera.html

 

Canon R5 with 24-105 and a 70-200 f2.8

Fujifilm XT4 with 16-80 f4 with a 35mm or 50mm

 

A CaNoN R5, Now YOu CaN SeE ThE WorLd iS FlAt!

(actually it is the Nikon Coolpix P900 that the flat earthers nut over, but who cares)

[sub68]

1 hour ago, DANK_AS_gay said:

A CaNoN R5, Now YOu CaN SeE ThE WorLd iS FlAt!

Huh?

[Alder Lake]

3 hours ago, IPD said:

IRA will also suit that purpose.  Apart from paying off outstanding debt, retirement funds are probably the wisest thing to spend it on.

just don't get a debt

 

problem solved

[DANK_AS_gay]

9 minutes ago, sub68 said:

Huh?

I edited it, but for some reason the Flat-Earthers really like the Nikon Coolpix P900, and since camera names are kinda stupid, I totally mixed them up. They like the Nikon because of its zoom so they can see that "boats don't go over the horizon" and other bs like that.

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, DANK_AS_gay said:

They like the Nikon because of its zoom so they can see that "boats don't go over the horizon" and other bs like that.

oh I see, they just don't know how physics work

[Alder Lake]

1 minute ago, sub68 said:

oh I see, they just don't know how physics work

most of the time, people who don't agree with physics don't know how they work

[sub68]

1 minute ago, Alder Lake said:

people who don't agree with physics don't know how they work

fair.

[georgepoll]

For that amount of money, I would upgrade all the appliances in the house and make repairs with the latest technology together with a designer. 

[HanZie82]

1. Get my driving license.
2. Buy a new desk chair so my back stops hurting.
3. Buy new PC.
4. Give mom and brother shitloads of presents. If anything is left.

[TheCoder2019]

new pc, valve index, 4k60 camera, green screen room extension, then put the rest into school

[PianoPlayer88Key]

if I had $10K I'd probably save / invest most of it.  Might buy a few things that add up to maybe several hundred or a couple K $, but not much more.  Also what I did buy would more likely be several less expensive things, rather than one thing that is the entire amount that I spend, so no RTX 3080s for me.

 

For example, right now I might need to get a new phone (Pixel 3a has a cracked screen and flaky charging port, looking at anywhere from $100-500 for a phone), and I'd like to get some streaming equipment (mics, maybe an extra camera, also headphones / headset, thinking anywhere from $300 to $1k total there but idk).  Also I might need a computer case to put my older motherboard in and turn it into a NAS.  (it's an LGA 1150 / Z97 motherboard with 10 SATA ports, my main gripe against making it a NAS is that it doesn't support ECC RAM and only supports 32GB.  Also I'd require a minimum of 10 HDD bays and a maximum price of $100 for the case, preferably less.)

[Sauron]

save it for a car