Features - QOTW: What's the most expensive component in your PC?

[bringans]

My GFX 680 GTX...always worth it.

[stevie lee]

well it was the AMD 4870 GPU at around £150 when I bought the whole computer for £700 ish back in march 2009. graphics got upgraded to a 7770 for free. and you should know what I think of that by now
so that makes the next most expensive component the CPU which was around £130 ish. the rest, mobo, ram, hard drives were all around £60 each

previous computer lasted 8 years, this ones only 4, so plenty of life left in it yet.

not had any hardware failures, its run pretty much everything Ive thrown at it, so all in all its all been worth it.

and it does run crysis, cod4, grid, lfd2 and unreal tournament all at the same time, so im pretty pleased with its performance.

[deejayburnout]

Mine has to be my HD 7850. Got it for £150 on sale a while back.

[SteveWilliams]

My GTX680.

Was it worth it? Not really sure. I can't say definitely yes or no. Depends if it lasts as long as I expect it to I suppose!

[Tunnah]

gfx card which I sli'ed...gtx 670@£330 a piece

[Initialised]

GPU (7970)
PSU (Antec TPQ 850W, had to replace the fan after 5 years, otherwise absolutely solid)
SSD (Samsung 840 250GB)

Spend where it counts most.

[Output]

Technically my AMD 4870 1GB, as I bought it new originally and have moved it across to my current build.

I think it was worth it.

[george1979]

I think mine was the CPU if i remember correctly. But the GPU I bought at the time (GTX 460) was around the same price.

[Runner1409]

GPU followed closely by the SSD...

[DavidM]

Has to be my case - but it was a custom paint/mod job which has lasted for over 7 years at least.

[Defiant]

GPU generally is more expensive than my CPU these days, last was the 6970 at £290.

[NecronomicoN]

My watercooling. Got about £600 in that. £250 in just the CPU block. Completely worth it, because it'll outlive the machine.

[alpha channel]

At time of purchase easily the monitor (HP LP2475w) very closely followed by the CPU (a 3930K), then the RAM (64GB of Corsair Vengeance), mind you the RAM was on sale with twenty quid off, £51.99 instead of £71.99, so it was very much a case of sod it, why not? transformed Photoshop and Vue Infinite though.

After that? motherboard, GPU (7870) then the SSD, all of which seems to have risen in price (bar the SSD) by quite a margin since I bought them (CPU +£20, motherboard +£40, RAM +£52 per kit).

The PSU, case and spinners, all Seagates bought before the Thailand floods, have seen a couple of bare metal upgrades that included an e6600, q6600 that included a mobo upgrade then to my latest build.

Edited to add monitor and GPU (it's the heat I tell ya)

[crossy]

Graphics card - XFX 7970 (factory overclocked) at £300 (but at least I got eight games with it - thanks AMD)

Trouble with that is that it shows up my old cpu (Phenom II 1090T) a bit, so that'll be the next upgrade unless I get diverted to put my apps on a nice Samsung 840Pro SSD first.

[jim]

£260 for my 256GB SSD - was well worth it though. I wouldn't be able to cope with anything smaller, and I don't think I could go back to a spinning hard disk.

My graphics card was close, at about £220 - which is nearly always my budget for a GPU. I'm not sure I see the value in more expensive cards, but I guess you never know!

[Noxvayl]

At the moment my Monitor is the most expensive thing I've purchased for my computer but that is going to change when I get my water cooling setup. Both things will be used with multiple component changes so I think that it is money well spent.

For internal components only the most I have spent would be £220 for the OCZ Vertex 2E, my first SSD hard drive. Considering I used it for 2 years, and sold it for £70, it was well worth the price.