just thought i'd reminisce on the days when I had 'spair' cash burning a whole in my pocket. whats the most you have ever spent on a piece of hardware?
for me back in the day it was a 700mhz AMD slot Athlon at the price of £400 !!!!
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just thought i'd reminisce on the days when I had 'spair' cash burning a whole in my pocket. whats the most you have ever spent on a piece of hardware?
for me back in the day it was a 700mhz AMD slot Athlon at the price of £400 !!!!
Barton 3200+ when they first came out. That and a NF7-S v2... (can't remember the price tag tho - and I don't think I want to :()
common lets us know the cash u laid out :D
It's so long ago the invoice is no longer listed on my account :(
At a guess though, it was probably around £350 for board & processor...
(oh, and don't you mean spare?)
7800 gtx the week it came out :D
almost 400 quid i think
My dad got me the original nvidia Geforce card...I can't remember how much it was but it was a lot lol
Forgot about that, before the GeForce series came out, I had the top TNT2 card :undecided
I had an S3 virge and some kind of accelerator i think..those were the days haha
Remember a game called screamers...i got probably 4 or 8 extra MB of RAM and that allowed the commentator to say like 8 more things!! That was an amazing day :lol:
Too young to remember those days :PQuote:
Originally Posted by staffsMike
now i feel old..only 20 though haha
I'm 19, jus didn't get into computers until I was 13-14 heh.
£620 for Dell 2407
£1692 for Dell XPS M1210
My 3007, about 800quid iirc :O_o1:
Most spent was around 2K for my 386SX33 (woo). Biggest waste of cash was my reelmagic card (anyone remember them!!??!!). So really now I can't laugh at the uselessness of physX cards because that was just as bad.
full system = £1,800 for a P133 (i payed £1000, my dad payed the rest. I was 15 at the time)
For a single component i think it was about £350 for a Plextor 8x2x20 SCSI drive. Along with a Plextor UltraPlex 40x, Pioneer DVD-ROM and Adaptec 2940 SCSI card
EDIT: but in recent times it would be the £900 Canon 350D kit, or ~£400 each for two lenses
Money well spent!! fantastic laptop :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinizter
Dell 2405FPW for £602 is the most I've spent on a single part. And worth every penny. :)
17" Macbook Pro - even with the discount I managed to get, was still the best part of £2k! :O_o1:
About a grand for a full system from the late lamented Panrix; PII 350, 128MB RAM, Supermicro P6SB MB, Diamond Viper V550 graphics (that's a Riva TNT to you...), 30GB hard disk (look, that was pretty damned big at the time...)... Look, it was quick at the time, OK?
£2.5k for a Dell Inspiron 8200 in Dec 2001 !! (But the company paid :) )
£525 for my dell 2405FPW most likely, cant honestly remember any single thing costing more than that.
Single most expensive thing ever? Without doubt my current motherboard, Asus P5W DH Deluxe @ approx £150
My last system I built for £400 :D
Ummm
£439 for a 512mb 7800GTX
$379 for a 512mb X1900XTX
£308 for an Opty 175
£330 for a 7900GTX
£350 for an 8800GTX 768mb (from US on release day)
I'm sure there is more ;)
420 pounds for a DVD-Writer back in the day when they first came out :)
about £1100 for my Acer Travelmate 3200.http://www.ixbt.com/portopc/acer-tm-...m-3200-big.jpg
its taken such a beating too and still working perfect. cept the rubber feet have fallen off
£350 for a 15" Sony Trinitron CRT Monitor (inclusive of 3 year onsite warranty) in 1997 (IIRC).
I've still got the manual I think.
OUCH!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
MY Current Media Centre I built Myself about £1300
Xps m1210 About £1500
However the worst one I can think of, Ive got an very old reciept somewhere for a 128mb stick of ram that was over £100 !!!!! sob sob sob :mad:
I think my brother's friend bought a CD Rom and Soundblaster for around £400 or around £600.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
My brother bought these off him later at reduced price.
I had to setup an xps m1210 a few weeks ago..
didn't want to give it up lol
2.33 C2D
2gb 667mhz RAM
Geforce 7400
bout £2000 worth lol
If you count camera stuff, I have spent about £3-4k on stuff.
that makes me feel so much better hehe. did u get any free discs with that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
:crazy:
They were something like £20 or £30 a disc wernt they ...
No :( and it was well back in the days before I even worked at scan as well and it wasn't even on Today Only :oQuote:
Originally Posted by 5cupa
£350 on a gainward geforce 3 64Mb.... then not long after Geforce 4 came out... mehhh merde..
I spent close to 300 notes when CD writers first came out, it was a Teac SCSI writer and had to get a SCSI card with it. Can't remember how much the media was but I seem to recall paying around 5-10 squids for some Yamaha blanks.
Also spent somewhere near 350 notes for a PII 400MHz slot CPU, the CPU turned out to be remarked/fake but the supplier upgraded it for a 500MHz, felt real chuffed, still have the receipt for it knocking around somewhere.
On a single component, my X1800XT, was £410.
For an individual item I believe it was a Plextor CD-RW drive. I can't remember the exact model but it was just shy of £200.
The thing is I'm not sure I'd spend that on a video card now, let alone an optical drive... lol
lol some pretty mental prices there
I am a lurker and try to stay behind the hype or the 'must have it now' wave
£160 on AMD64 X2 4600+
:)
£120 on my E6300....i think
a 3.4EE P4 for a Shuttle SB75, got it on a special voucher listed on Hexus IIRC [ebuyer] but still cost over £450 quid with the 25% voucher !!!
oh and a 2405 but thats already been mentioned :)
Family spent £1700 on a P75 system, our 1st pc
Personally
£150 on one of the early Pioneer DVD-Rom drives
£350 on the 9800 Pro 128mb when they 1st came out
£110 on the Gigabyte GA-8INXP when it 1st came out
A Hard Disc - Seagate Medalist Pro 6.4Gb 5400 RPM, ouch £233.83 inc vat
About 525/550 on a set of gigaworks X750 and an audigy 2 platinum pro zs back when they were both brand new.
c.£350 on watercooling (including case)
Ill never have any money as long as scan are in business i reckon
SNAP!Quote:
Originally Posted by arbitor
£328 two weeks after they came out, sold it 8 months later for £165
Family spent £2200 on a machine from PC World in 98 I think it was, something along the lines of a P2 266 64Mb of RAM, 8.6 GB HDD, Ati Rage 4Mb 3D Card. Epson Stylus 600 and a scanner. 15" CRT. Silly amounts of cash.
Oh, and the ISA modem was the same length as my 7900GTO. Also did £120 on a CD-RW for said machine.
spent nearly £700 on a dell 20" tft about 3 years ago,thats my most expsensive item.