What is the most you have ever paid for a CPU?

[staffsMike]

I decided to make myself sick and paid about £190 for my E6600. great overclocker and still strong today but so much more than I was usually spend.

[_Starbuck]

My E8600 which cost 179 ish on scan back in September

[shadowmaster]

I think I paid £280 for my E6700 in its early days, and recently I paid £90 for my Q6600.

[!TIMMY!]

I think the most expensive chip i bought was a athlon 3000, and it wasn't much of an upgrade from my athlon 2200. Most of my chips have been 2nd hand.

[NightshadowUK]

£200 for my Opteron 170.

[Trash Man]

Around the £360 mark I think. When the Q6600's first came out.

[PeterStoba]

Around the £360 mark I think. When the Q6600's first came out.

wow, were they ever that much? I got mine a few weeks after launch and it wasn't even half that!

[moogle]

wow, were they ever that much? I got mine a few weeks after launch and it wasn't even half that!

Yes they were 400-450 for ages. Only dropped in price around July/August.

In a couple of years I hope to be on Sandy Bridge/ 32nm Nehalem if funds at uni are adequate : \

Now if you had got a 920 and saved £400+ in a few years you could sell your CPU and buy that Sandy Bridge easily

[ed^chigliak]

The most I paid was £150 for an AMD64 single core socket 939 3800+ CPU but I combined it with a cheap Asrock motherboard to compensate.

My current CPU is an E2180 @ 3.0Ghz costing £56 on a £65 motherboard.

Upgrades are on hold because the E5200 is about as much as I want to pay for a Q9650. The low power 65w quads are a ripoff. The i7 920 quad coming in at less than a Q9650 makes me want to buy a Phenom II where motherboards don't cost £200.

[Golden Dragoon]

Got this Q6600 for £117 from scan a while back om offer if I remember corectly, never really spent much more than £60-70 on a cpu before that, but figured that a quad might make the investment worthwhile.

[Mithrandir]

For CPU on it's own, I paid £76 for an Athlon 3200 (Winchester) back in Oct '05 for my first build. Bought several 2nd hand CPUs but all much cheaper.

[pauldarkside]

Most I've paid was £397.09 for an E6700 back in August 2006. Worst bit was that I got charged for two and had to wait for a refund on one before I could order all the other parts for that rig - had to make to with stock cooling for a while. It all turned up on the day I was off to a Muse gig. Tough choice that, build my rig or go see Muse at the Eden Project. I did both

That lasted two years until I upgraded to the Q6600 for a third of the price!

Practically all of my main rig builds have had a budget of around £300 for the processor. Until this build (2006 with a few upgrades since), I'd be building a new one every six months or so. Glad those days are behind me.

Trouble is I'm itching to build an i7 rig now, multi-monitor SLI (two x GTX260 - just bought one of them) and a third (my current 8800GT) for dumping out to the living room screen, and a couple of ~60GB SSDs in RAID0 for the system drive. Not sure whether to go for the 920 or the 940 yet but that'll be for another thread

Just trying to find a CPU water-block that goes with my cooling kit.

[dfour]

£189 for my Phenom 2 940BE. Previously it was £150 for a Athlon 1800xp which was about the worse overclocker I have ever owned

[Georgy291]

ha ha my dad payed £80 for his 2.1GHZ x4 phenom

[moogle]

Just trying to find a CPU water-block that goes with my cooling kit.

Yey!

[TooNice]

Can't remember exactly how much it was anymore, but I remember the P2 400 costing a handful when I bought it less than two months after release.