Poll: what's the most you ever paid for a single computer component?(inside the box, not printers/monitors)

[FoBoT]

Poll: what's the most you ever paid for a single computer component?

like a hard drive, cpu, video card, single stick of RAM NOT PRINTERS OR MONITORS!

for me,

i once bought two Pentium 75 CPU's, when they first came out, for $725 each, but that was to build two pc's for some people

for myself to keep/use in my main system, it was for a video card $400 back in ~1995 . that card today is worth maybe $5

 

[Electric Amish]

Does a monitor count?

If so, ~$500

Otherwise, there was the $96 for 16mb SIMM.

$250 for 1.28gb Seagate HD

$155 for my Matrox G400 Video card that still running games like a champ.

amish

 

[rgwalt]

Does this include stuff like printers? I spent ~$330 on a laser printer once. Also, I spent around $200 on a processor and around $200 on a video card.

Ryan

 

[777joee]

I had to get Intel to replace my P60 with the bad math processor and they charged me $480 on my credit card to insure that I would send the bad one back.



It's been down hill since then...............

 

[rgwalt]

One more thing... my dad spend $1100 on a laser printer once.

Ryan

 

[joohang]

$800+ Canadian on a stick of 8MB EDO SIMM.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Does a monitor count?

let's exclude montors and printers, just stuff that goes inside the box

 

[bacillus]

$800 for a p3 550 when they just came out!

 

[Koing]

about £170 for a video card. Ati Radeon 64mb DDR VIVO.

Not in to paying high prices for stuff. I don't game much....

 

[pcmodem]

Yo,
Have never paid more than $500 (excluding tax) for anything, external or internal.

Have paid around $250 for video cards, CPUs, RAM, in the past. Most expensive components were monitors and speakers. Even my 21" monitor was only $75 from a Chapter 11 sale a year ago.

Try to cap most component purchases at around $250.

Have a good one,
PCM

 

[DnetMHZ]

$1300 for a DLT tape drive

DnetMHZ

 

[SKORPI0]

Paid $550 for a HP 6020i 2X burner (SCSI) about July '97. Adaptec 2920 SCSI card was $125. :disgust:

 

[beat mania]

$1100 for a Sony 2X CDR back ... say, 7 years ago.

 

[Bignate603]

I paid about $250 for my geforce 2 when that was considered top of the line.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I paid $400 for my GeForce4 Ti4600

nik

 

[Viper GTS]

$530 for a Pentium 233. That's right, Pentium MMX.

Viper GTS

 

[Electric Amish]

I'll be paying ~$400 for my Matrox Parhelia here in the next month or so.

amish

 

[Gaard]

Paid ~$500 for a top-of-the-line NEC 3x CD-ROM back in the day.

 

[Murphyrulez]

$2,100 for a 120 meg Hard Drive back in 1988. Had to have it for my BBS to store the file section...


The good old days...

 

[dpm]

I think I paid about a hundred for a soundblaster pro, pretty far back.
that was my first upgrade, and since then i've stuck pretty strictly to the bargains.

still - it was worth it - the difference between that and the bleeper squeeker was amazing!
and lets not forget the wonders of Dr Sbaitso and the talking parrot...

 

[her209]

I paid 300 bucks for my Hercules GF2 GTS when it first came out.

 

[Cerebus451]

I remember paying $600 for my Monster 3DII when it first came out. That's probably the most expensive component. At least from what I can remember.

 

[GoSharks]

~$250 for my p3 700. good old cbo stepping, retail chip that got to 933 and is still running at 933.

 

[dude]

I don't even remember what was the most expensive CPU anymore. I definately upgrade it too much!

But I paid $300 for Creative Geforce 2 64mb DDR.
About $300 for a Gainward Geforce 4 Ti4400
I remember paying about $400 for a 20 gig hard drive a few years ago! :Q
Prolly the most expensive was a CD Burner. Over $500 :Q

 

[kranky]

I spent $12,000 for a quarter-meg of RAM (that's right, 256KB of RAM) once.

Actually, it was my employer's money, but I spent it. It was memory for a PDP-11 minicomputer.