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Well I'm up for yet another sleepless night, so I figured kill some time by window shopping (R9 290, phantoms 530s, AIO, etc.), and I decided another good way to kill time is to make this topic!

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Never. Way to much time spent playing games and watching Youtube :(

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Never. Way to much time spent playing games and watching Youtube :(

I have watch almost all recent videos that interest me and have moved on to really old LTT videos that I have already watched, and have beaten nearly all my 86 steam games

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Window shopping as in just looking what's on the market right now and what I could maybe buy? For tech, not really. I'm pretty happy with my system so there's no real reason to do that. I really like to do that with tools though.

I'm what you can call a poor person, but hey imagination is free right!

MoBo: 970A-D3P CPU: FX-8350 GPU: HD 7950 PSU: 1000watt RAM:8Gb of G,skill 1600

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I'm what you can call a poor person, but hey imagination is free right!

 

For a "poor" person you have a pretty nice PC, just saying. I don't really get window shopping for stuff that is totally out of your league, I'd just do it for potential future purchases. I don't look at 25k€ CNC equipment all day, even though I would love to have some. That's just too depressing....

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For a "poor" person you have a pretty nice PC, just saying. I don't really get window shopping for stuff that is totally out of your league, I'd just do it for potential future purchases.

I worked my ass off for this PC (dry walling in 110 degree house I wouldn't recommend it)

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Not frequently. But there was one memorable window shopping occasion - when I saw the beautiful Razer Blade 14 in real life.

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Very often. I like to know how much products cost, and to check if a product i've been saving for goes on sale.

sales are a god sent, the only reason I have a 8350 besides a 8320 was because it went on sale and was the same price, and the only reason I have my 7950 instead of the 7850 I was looking at was because the R series was released when I was getting ready to buy, and dropped the 7950 to 200 bucks!

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Honestly only for PC parts, rarely anything else, either online or in real life. That said I am constantly looking at PC components.

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I don't really look at PC parts unless I know I need them, although I of course watch LTT when a new one is out. That's enough for me. I do however stay up to date on the second hand musical instruments market, always looking for the right deal.

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I'm constantly window shopping, especially now I've set myself a few projects and need to get some extra gear. Although also going a little too optimistic by looking at parts for a new workstation and nas rigs too

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Every time I pass by an electronics store I MUST look at the new stuff they have and marvel over all the things that I can't afford...

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Not very often since I already know what'll be in this rig when it's finished.

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If it's online, then almost every day... Offline however, It would only be when I have some money on hand (so that I can buy anything that I "need")...

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