What are the most expensive computer parts you've bought?

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: BassBomb
650CDN for a Monitor (see sig)
650CDN for speakers (see sig)

Speakers connected to the computer count?

NO!

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: SneakyStuff
$150 for an 8800GT this past June, I get everything almost a year later and on sale

I paid less than that shortly after launch... just waited for it to come back in stock at Best Buy and it coincided with something like 15% off all BFG products that week and I threw in a 12% off Reward Zone Members (10% otherwise) coupon. I got two for SLI and have upgraded several times since (dual GTX280 currently).

I forgot to mention earlier that I probably spent a fortune on my Dell 2005FPW back in 2005, but I can't recall the so-called "deal."

 

[n7]

My 3007WFP...was around $1700 IIRC.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: BassBomb
650CDN for a Monitor (see sig)
650CDN for speakers (see sig)

Speakers connected to the computer count?

lol I would probably win on that.

 

[Ns1]

400 or so for this 20" ws

 

[Bateluer]

700 on a Dell 2407 LCD. At the time it was a good deal, today a similar panel is less than half that. It was only in July 2007 when I bought it too.

 

[Twista]

$250 e8400 cpu?
220 8800 GT

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: Jabbernyx
Wow, you guys are a bunch of rich fat cats
$250 for a GF4 Ti4400 and $350 for a X1900XT.

Not really. I'm quite poor when compared to most of the US (below the poverty line) but I have
i7 920: $300
2x GTX 260 Core216 Superclocked 55nm: $285 each
Lenovo L220X 22" 1920x1200 monitor: $440
Q6600: $533 back when the first came out before the G0 came out.
Asus P6T Deluxe $300
eVGA 680i $250 or so (when it first came out)
2GB DDR2-800 Corsair Dominator RAM $300
eVGA 7950GT $250 x2
Thermochill radiator: $140 (watercooling system was $600) and I have 2
Those are probably the most expensive. Most of my parts range from 200-300 each (E6400 when they came out, watercooling systems, Viewsonic 20" 1680x1050, 500GB HDD back in the day, and my power supplies (700, 750, and 800W))

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: BassBomb
650CDN for a Monitor (see sig)
650CDN for speakers (see sig)

Speakers connected to the computer count?

lol I would probably win on that.

Or lose I guess considering how you look at it

$4200-ish since I bought many of them used

 

[Oil]

$200 9800 Pro
$200 17" LCD

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: BassBomb
650CDN for a Monitor (see sig)
650CDN for speakers (see sig)

Speakers connected to the computer count?

lol I would probably win on that.

Or lose I guess considering how you look at it

$4200-ish since I bought many of them used

Are you still going to University? Just curios cause as you probably know I've made many of my own expensive purchases on a small income.

 

[Kanalua]

$300 for a CD burner in 1999 and $300 for 3dfx Voodoo3 vid card...

($2400 on a 52" LCD from Samsung,that I bought last year that operates as a TV, too)

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: BassBomb
650CDN for a Monitor (see sig)
650CDN for speakers (see sig)

Speakers connected to the computer count?

lol I would probably win on that.

Or lose I guess considering how you look at it

$4200-ish since I bought many of them used

C$6900 is what I paid for my HT speakers...

 

[JMapleton]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
700 on a Dell 2407 LCD. At the time it was a good deal, today a similar panel is less than half that. It was only in July 2007 when I bought it too.

Crappy tn panels are half as much, not a good panel like that. 2409s are around 650 I think.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Alone
Excluding monitors, probably my Lian Li case, which was around $500 IIRC.

Your CASE was $500? My god...it must be amazing...pics?

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Drako
Spent around $2500 on a computer case - yes the case.

I'm quoting this for geno.

Here is a Lian Li for > $600.

 

[Gerbil333]

$278 for a Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB. Money well spent.

 

[mooncancook]

$500+ for AMD X2 4200
$500+ for ATi X1900XT

both were purchased near launch, and I'll not do that again.

 

[Penth]

Originally posted by: n7
My 3007WFP...was around $1700 IIRC.

Same, mine was a bit over $1700 with CompleteCare

 

[Aquila76]

Probably the ~$1500 for my LCD (NEC 2690WUXi).

 

[DVad3r]

I'm pretty sure I paid something like $ 450 when the GeForce 1 32 meg DDR came out. It was a creative card. I also paid a crazy amount for a http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...sidian_X24_SLI_PCI.png but not sure how much it was now. Back in the day the $ was worth more too!

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: Kanalua
$300 for a CD burner in 1999 and $300 for 3dfx Voodoo3 vid card...

($2400 on a 52" LCD from Samsung,that I bought last year that operates as a TV, too)

Ohhh... I could count my $5,000 52" Sony XBR!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1vceHs2Cw

I do game on it... WITH my PC. The immersion makes for one hell of a monitor in PC FPS single-player campaigns. Just turn the TV toward the PC, turn the PC chair toward the TV, put the keyboard in your lap and the mouse where the keyboard was and get lost in it. You have to "look around" on the screen to spot/see things, so it's a disadvantage for multiplayer but an immersion tool for single-player campaigns (CoD4 was amazing on it).

 

[CZroe]

Originally posted by: DVad3r
I'm pretty sure I paid something like $ 450 when the GeForce 1 32 meg DDR came out. It was a creative card. I also paid a crazy amount for a http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...sidian_X24_SLI_PCI.png but not sure how much it was now. Back in the day the $ was worth more too!

Yeah, I bought an Obsidian X24 SLI off someone on these forums for cheap and sold it for $20 at QuakeCon 2003... it didn;t work with the reference drivers or the unofficial ones and Quantum's were way out of date.

I remember the GeForce 3 setting the consumer GPU price record at $300 when it launched? At least I THOUGHT it did when I paid it at launch.

 

[vshah]

~450 for a geforce 2 ultra when i was building my first computer

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

1998ish:1600x1200 Viewsonic Tube (17")
about $750 (I forget if shipping was extra)

It was awesome for its day.