POLL: What's the Most You Paid for PC Hardware

[Olias]

OK, don't laugh. I once paid $600 for a 16MB SIMM and $260 for a 2x CD-ROM. Then there was tax on top of this. This was in 94 and these were Canadian dollers.

 

[frankroh]

Ouch! Back in 93, I bought a 8MB Diamond Viper card with VESA local bus for $199. My 486DX33 with 16MB of RAM and Viper card screamed! If y'all remember back then, most PCs had 4~8MB of RAM, so my PC was the king of the neighborhood.

Sigh~, the good ol' days....

 

[techfuzz]

$200 to double the memory in a 486 SX 33 from 4MB to 8MB. Spent $350 on one of those original Creative Labs sound card/CDROM combo deals around the same time.

 

[flyers1]

I was cleaning out some old PC parts receipts the other day and found a reciept for a Pentium 166 for $260 Didn't take note of the date. The same receipt had a 3.2GB Quantum HDD on it for $250. Over $500 for a HDD for my test box and a paperweight(CPU)

Pretty scary if ya think about it...

 

[bozo1]

Well is wasn't exactly me but we purchased a 1X CD-R at work back when they were first coming out. $4000 plus about $35 each for the blanks. Ouch. And about half of what we burned ended up being coasters.

 

[Kinesis]

$4500 on a 486 DX2 66 with 4 MB RAM and 1MB VESA Video, 5.25 & 3.5 Inch Floppy Drives, and a huge 320 MB Hard Drive. Shortly after getting it I got Windows 95....on FLOPPY. 25 Disks. Uggg

Ever since then I have built my own. Never spent more than 1200 on any system since.

 

[Workin']

On a single item: $250 for a 250MB hard drive back in 1993, I think.

Whole computer: $2200 for my first computer in May of 1990, a 386SX-16MHz with 1MB RAM, 40MB hard drive, both floppies, 256k VGA graphics, 14" monitor, 24-pin dot-matrix printer, and good old DOS 3.3. No CD, no sound, no mouse! That was the first and last pre-built computer I ever had. If anyone wants to buy it I still have it

 

[Pauli]

In 1985 I think, I upgraded from 512K to 640K of system memory for USD$80. That works out to USD$640 for 1MB. If I had upgraded to 512MB that I have right now, I would have had to pay around USD$328,000! Only 16 years later, it cost USD$190! Truly amazing...

 

[mastertech01]

Commodore VIC 20 and 16K ram module.. 500.00

Long Live SNACKMAN!

 

[blackhawk]

Celeron 400 for 280us about 30 months ago, 410 for a 16mb stick of ram 6 years ago and 600 for a 2x cdrom, sound card and 5 cd's about 6 years ago.

 

[DeeK]

My 19" Optiquest V95 cost me $768 Cdn + tax in 1998.

 

[robertf97]

You guys have got me beat, but I still get a laugh out of these:
$200 for 4MB of RAM
$220 for a 400MB HDD
$1950 for a Pentium 200 system (no monitor) (I thought this was a great deal at the time).

 

[Joony]

bah...$300 bucks for a geforce 2 when it came out...

 

[nj]

I paid $270 for a Quantum Bigfoot drive (bah!) way back when, and I paid $200 for my dual voodoo II's (i guess that's two parts though). I still use those them in my girlfriend's agp-less crapfest comp. Dual Voodoo's still look good for unreal engine games.

My buddy actually paid $500 for a 4meg isa Diamond Video card way back when. It was amazing at the time. I later gave him my S3 Virge 4 megger cuz he needed a pci solution.

Paid $220 for my Creative DRx2 kit. I still use the drive, but the card is in the closet somewhere.

 

[panhead49]

this poll really depresses me....and my empty wallet...maxed credit cards....lol

 

[pen^2]

$230 on my midiland s2 4100s. while these speakers trully shine, i wish i knew more about the wonderful lil things known as headphones back then... oh well

 

[jdurg]

I spent 3300 on a Dell system using a 600 MHz processor. But most of that money was spent on the 19 inch monitor and the Altec Lansing speakers. Over the past two years, I've spent some money upgrading it though.

240 bucks on a 1 GHz CPU.
300 bucks on Midiland S4-8200 speakers.
200 bucks on an HP 9510i CD-RW.
280 bucks on a GeForce2 GTS DDR 64 Mb 4x AGP.

However, all that money has been well worth it, cuz my computer now seems perfect to me.

 

[fargus]

I'm not even going to go through that old folder of receipts, too many of these stories sound like my experiences.... let's just say I'm done being one of the early adopters of the new gizmos... now I wait till the product's been out 6 months, get it for 75% less!

 

[NIelkc]

I might have yall beat on the single piece of hardware, I spent $1000.00 on a Mark of the Unicorn (Motu) 2408MkII soundcard That was about 8months ago.

 

[Bingo13]

System- IBM XT, loaded, including a 5mb HD, $5320, 1983
Monitor- Viewsonic VPW500, 50" Plasma Monitor, $11745.63, 6/23/01
Video Card- 3DLabs Oxygen GVX420, 128mb AGP DVI, $1355, 04/01

just to name a few that stand out.....

still remember the first 2x CDR units at $900, Diamond Viper VL at $599, 4mb EDO memory modules at $700, to name a few of my worst purchases.....

 

[bevancoleman]

$AUD 1000 (~$USD 500 ) for a 1 Gb Hdd, yep that is right only 1 gig

 

[w9design]

Silicon Graphics 1600SW flatpanel..... $995.

My single largest purchase (aside from whole machines..... I bought a PII/300 system in 1997 for $3800)

 

[vegetation]

$250 for a Diamond something (forgot the name) video card, circa 1992. This was back in the days when 2D capabilities were all the rage (no one knew about 3D). Fast polygon rates in Win 3.1 won you bragging rights.

 

[Pepi]

HDD IBM 270MB for 275$ - Two weeks later it burned away.

 

[Maverick]

$800 (with shipping) for a P2 400 CPU in my first home built system.

It was OEM and burned out soon after the 30 day warranty ran out.
Don't ever buy a chip from AccuByte.