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    QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    Let's hear which gadgets you really lust after.
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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    GeForce GTX Titan X

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    A tower mobo with dual cpu and a bajillion pcie slots

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    A modern graphics card, and if anything is left, an SSD (or some more memory).
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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    Although not out yet, but the new Asus T300 Chi - fingers crossed it will be £500 or less.

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    An LG G4.

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    I'd put my pre-order in for a Steam Controller as the first thing I spend money on. I've just ordered the OnePlus One so would likely spend that £226 with this money as well. That leaves me with £234 to spend on a GPU upgrade, but I'll wait until the new AMD card was released to take advantage of possible price drops.

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    An electric unicycle, think of it like a segway cut down to one wheel. It'd make commuting without having to use slow public transport, expensive cars, or plain uncomfortable bicycles a lot easier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CampGareth View Post
    An electric unicycle, think of it like a segway cut down to one wheel. It'd make commuting without having to use slow public transport, expensive cars, or plain uncomfortable bicycles a lot easier.
    Also, people are more likely to help you if you're run over by a bus
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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    Having just bought a Lumia 640XL i would spend part of the £500 paying for the Lumia.
    The monitor i rather like is beyond £500 so thats ruled out.
    Actually there is nothing (tech wise) i really want or lust after though there are a few things that interest me. Quite often i find the wanting is better than actually getting. Once you get it, thats it.

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    Probably a 3D printer

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    blow up japanese doll with computerised programmable mouth.

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    Mine would be spent on a 32" LED HiRes Monitor

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    Unfortunately, an upgrade that's right in between lusted for and wasteful (for my current system) is a GTX 980 Ti.

    Wouldn't mind throwing a Batteriser to the mix just for fun, though.

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    a full size lightsail

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    Re: QOTW: What tech would you buy with £500 to spend?

    I'd have to wait a little while but I would buy a Slylake CPU (i7 most likely) with a Skylake mobo and of course 16gb DD4 RAM, then if there's enough left in the pot a Corsair Air 540 case, though I suspect that the CPU, mobo and RAM would push my budget over the £500 mark. If I'm not allowed to wait for Skylake to release then it would have to be Haswell with a 4790K and EVGA mobo plus I can use my existing RAM.

    Do I win the £500 for that answer?
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