People are always talking about "your average desktop PC", and about how much they tend to spend on components, so I'm interested to know what the figures are like for an enthusiast community like Hexus - what I want to know is this:
How much have you spent on your current, main PC?
If you're not quite sure what I mean, here's my breakdown - would be interested to see other people's as well! If you've sold off components in the past, ignore them - it's what's in there at the moment that I'm interested in.
Obviously it's a bit easier if you've got a laptop/prebuilt PC
Case - P180 - OcUK, early 2007 - £82
PSU - HX620 - Scan, early 2009 - £110
Motherboard - P35-DQ6 - Scan, late 2007 - £115 (current motherboard is a warranty replacement for when that board blew and Scan broke their only spare trying to send it to me )
CPU - Q9550 - Scan, early 2009 - £230
RAM - Corsair 4GB - Scan, early 2009 - £70
RAM - Geil 4GB - Hexus, early 2010 - £40
GPU - ATI 5870 - Hexus, mid 2010 - £225
HDD - F1 320GB - Scan, mid 2009 - £32
DVD - AD-7200S - Scan, early 2009 - £16
Total: £920
It's a bit shocking to see it written there as one lump sum number, but not too bad when you see what I would get on Dell for the same money - ignoring the fact I've had 3.5 years' use out of some of this stuff! And I definitely wasn't economical with my upgrades either... if I had've been, I probably could've had very similar performance for a good chunk less money.