The most any one ever paid for there system

[kinggost]

I just worked out what my system cost me the start of this year. I added it up and it was 4k now it not worth 2k.

What every one elses worth

 

[Mr Jones]

My spec now:
P4HT 2.8Ghz 512cache
Intel 865PE Mobo
120GB Maxtor HDD
1GB PC3200 RAM @ 400Mhz
(That C brand) Gamebomb PC Case
Sony DVD-Rom
Sony CD-RW
3.5 Floppy Drive
V92 PCI Modem
128mb ATi 9600 GPU
Aound Blaster Audigy 2
Creative 6.1 6700 Speakers
XP Home OEM
19" Viewsonic CRT G90f+ Monitor

That cost me £1020 w/o VAT 3 years ago.

Now, it's hardly worth £350 (that's my estimate, compared to other specs that's better).

£1500ish is the most I'll spend for my Conroe rig by end August

 

[Joe42]

Pc depreciation is scary.
I had a graphics card waiting to go in another system for a couple of months and it lost about £50 in value.

If you turn it into a running cost its probably almost a £1 per day in depreciation for expensive systems.

All the more reason to get your money's worth and fold with it. It gives me some satisfaction to know that my £350 cpu has never been idle in its life.

 

[babyface uk]

All the more reason to get your money's worth and fold with it. It gives me some satisfaction to know that my £350 cpu has never been idle in its life.

Nice pimping there S'ah.
As for me, my last rig cost at most £1700 about 5 months ago.
Now about 50p

Babyface UK

 

[Psycho Sonny]

If you turn it into a running cost its probably almost a £1 per day in depreciation for expensive systems.

All the more reason to get your money's worth and fold with it. It gives me some satisfaction to know that my £350 cpu has never been idle in its life.

Its much more than a £1 a day if he lost 2 grand in 6 months a better estimate would be you lose 50% of the value of your pc every 6 months so in january his pc will only be worth £1000 which is roughly far more accurate

how does folding help you? your electricity bill must be sky high. your computer is getting stressed running constantly. and probably wont last as long as it should do.

 

[fenderbass86]

The most i'll pay is about £950 for my conroe rig in August. The most i've payed in the past was about £750 (4 years ago) for:

AMD XP1800+
256MB
Nvidia Geforce2 MX400
40GB hard drive
CD/RW + DVD
E-star case
350W PSU (not unbranded just can't remember)

My current one cost about £600 last January.

 

[kinggost]

i only paid it because i got a dell 24" monitor and i need an high end system. I like to have all settings on high

 

[Coln]

I remember years back paying over £2000 for a pre-built P2 266 system. Bloody incredible what you would get for that nowadays. Mind you that did have a £400 cd-writer in it

 

[nikebee]

seems whenever i've built machines in the past it's been in stages...

latest machine including extras etc... (estimates)

AMD 4000+ (second hand) £150
DFI LanParty SLi-D £120
2GB G.Skill ZX £150~
74GB Raptor £120
120GB Seagate Barracuda £60
7800GT £220
Antec Sonata I case £80
X-FI XtremeMusic £50 (wonders of vouchers for birthday presents with certain stores )
15" TFT £200 (had this for years now... think it cost £200 when i first got it)
Logitech X-530 speakers £60
Logitech Ultra X keyboard £20
Logitech MX510 mouse £25
Hiper 580w Type-R PSU £80
Zalman VF900 CU GPU cooler - £20
AKASA 120mm fan £10~
Artic Freezer64 Pro £20~
Speedlink Medusa headphones £35~
Linksys Router £30
Logitech Rumblepad II £20~
Logitech MOMO steeringwheel £80
Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX £30~

grand total of roughly £1580
and i'm spending a bit more than that soon to shift to Conroe

 

[kinggost]

and i'm spending a bit more than that soon to shift to Conroe

What you going to be getting

 

[Raymond Lin]

£1400 for a PIII/128mb PC100, TNT 16mb, 17" CRT, DVD-rom and CD-RW. No NIC, only a modem.

It is just a doorstop now.

 

[NarChaDBaueR]

- amd 64bit 3200+ £65
- x1800gto £125
- Tagan TG420-UO2 420W £20
- GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 £50
- seagate 80gb hdd £35
- 20gb dunno what it is for free!!
- msi rd480 £35
- Thermaltake VB1000SNS Soprano £46
- Plextor PX-755A £20
- mx518 £40 lol
- keyboard lolol £1.50
- DKT mousemat £10 i think
- Sennheiser PC130's hmmm £40 when they were first released
- 17" crt £Absolutely nuttin!
Grand total of 487 which isnt to bad.... I think

 

[Joe42]

how does folding help you? your electricity bill must be sky high. your computer is getting stressed running constantly. and probably wont last as long as it should do.

Stressed? Its a bunch of transistors.
It will last 15 years if i don't run folding, 10 if i do. It will be useless to me in 5.

And as for the rest of my pc such as the cooling system, i take great pride in being able to design and build a pc thats both silent and runs under full load constantly. If it couldn't do that i would be questioning my design skills.

I don't pay the electricity, and if i did i wouldn't care, as its hardly very much on the scale of things. Not much more than an ordinary lightbulb.

It helps me because my £350 cpu doesn't sit idle doing nothing 90% of the time.

Its busy trying to find a cure for cancer and various other diseases while yours will end up in the scrap in a few years time having done nothing worthwhile at all and with many years of life left in it, rendered useless by the pace of technology.

 

[Raikiri]

I have £1800 quid worth here over 2 computers, 10 GHZ of CPU power and 46 inches of screen

 

[nikebee]

What you going to be getting

keeping the majority of eye candy from my rig (keyboard/mouse/speakers/ etc...)

HDDs and opticals will stay, as will case.... possibly adding another 200gb drive though?

this is my saved shopping cart at the moment

HS-003-SY Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755) (HS-003-SY)
£26.95 £26.95
FG-024-AK Akasa AK-183-L2B Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin (FG-024-AK)
£9.95 £9.95
MO-041-SA Samsung SM-940BF 19" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black (MO-041-SA)
£218.95 £218.95
CA-002-SS Seasonic S12 600W Silent ATX2.2 Power Supply (CA-002-SS)
£84.95 £84.95
CP-128-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)
£214.95 £214.95
MY-011-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR2 ZX PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBZX) (MY-011-GS)
£149.95 £149.95
GX-053-HT HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT)
£244.95 £244.95
MB-152-AS Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)
£149.95 £149.95
Subtotal £1,100.60
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £10.95
VAT £194.53
Total £1,306.08


motherboard will probably change, and i'm not 100% sure i'll get the X1900XT straight away but we'll see.

might need a bigger PSU, possibly an FPS 700w Sparkle...

 

[DarkShadow]

I have £1800 quid worth here over 2 computers, 10 GHZ of CPU power and 46 inches of screen

Now that's moneys worth

For me it's my current rig, low down of the spec:

Amd64 3500+ (When it newly came out)
Wavemaster with all the fancy expensive mods
Dinovo
Dual LG TFT's
1GB RAM
0.5TB
Dual DVD-RW's
Silencing the case
Logitech Z-5500's
Etc etc etc

£2.5k

 

[meaz]

3700+ : £109
artic cooling freezer h/s/f : £20
epox nforce3 : £45
1GB Geil Value RAM : £58
gigabyte 6600gt : £70
cheiftec dragon : £60
480w Hiper Type R PSU : £68
120GB Maxtor HDD : £70
Audigy 4 SE: £18
52-32-52 CD-RW : £15
17" CTX Monitor : £70
Logitech keyboard : £8
MX500 mouse : £23

£634

3500+ @ 2617MHz : £90
512MB Geil Value RAM : £32
Gigabyte nForce3 250GB Mob : £52
ATi 9250GFX : £22
2 x 80GB Maxtor HDD's : £60
52-32-52 CD-RW : £15
Juno P6 Case: £25
460W Akasa LED PSU: £50
15" CRT: Free
keyboard / mouse: £10

£356

Athlon 1400 Tbird
512MB PC3200
40GB Fujitsu
Asus A7A266-E Mobo
Full Tower Case
300W PSU
CD-RW
DVD ROM

£1400+ in 2001 from Evesham lol

Semptron 2500+ @ 1500MHz ~ £100
Dual P3 667 ~ £60
Dual P3 733 ~ £70
Dual P3 866 ~ £80
Dual P3 1000 ~ £100
P3 733 ~ £35
P3 450 ~ £120

 

[Raikiri]

Now that's moneys worth

For me it's my current rig, low down of the spec:

You knows it

3200+ athlon 64 @ 2.5ghz
freezer 64 pro
Lian Li PC7+
7800GT
2x512mb Geil Value
Panasonic 16x DVD-rw
160gb Samsung spingpoint S-ata2
80gb hitatchi
Epox SLi mobo
Aerocool 450w modular PSU
26 inch samsung HDTV / monitor
Philips 100w 2.1 Speakers
Speedlink headphones

Pentium D 805 @ 3.75ghz
Asus P5ND2 SLi Deluxe w/ voltmod
x800gto 128mb w/zalman
Arctic freezer 7 pro
Antec super lanboy
seasonic 430w PSU
120gb maxtor
2x256mb ddr2 PC4200
Plextor DVD-ROM
20inch widescreen acer monitor
Saitek Eclipse
Logitech MX510
MS 6000 Laser mouse

 

[mattio1980]

id hate to think about mine has got to be over 3k i just make sure i get returns on my hardwere by selling it 6 months after i buy it like my x1800xt bought it when first came out sold it for £150 half way towards one of my 7900 gtx's
good thing about keeping up to date is that your old hardware is still worth something one of those things i lernt when i paid £300 for my 9700 pro sold it last year for £65 just takes the pi** so......... i always go for the replace with-in 6 months rule othr wize you will get no return

 

[InSanCen]

My main rig cost.. ooh.. £400ish inc VAT

X2-4200 (£120 bargain)
2x512MB CH-5 (£40 bargain, 2 months old)
Asrock DUAL SATA2 (£40 new)
250GB 8MB WD (£30)
200GB 2MB WD(£20)
TT Big Typhoon (£15)
X800XT@540:565 (£90)
FSP 500W (£40 new)

I like buying used parts...