Overall Expense

[HeavenlyGifted]

Overall how much did you pay for your pc or laptop?
I'd want this kind of discussion running, in order to know how much budget I should save up for a qualitative pc or laptop that's good for gaming

 

[MrTay]

There's a build guide in this forum, have a look at it, and you might know what you're looking for.

 

[Rishwin]

Q3 2006: $2,500 PC
Core2Duo E6600 2.4MHz
Corsair 2GB DDR2 800MHz
Asus P5W-DH Deluxe LGA 775
Asus 512MB 8800GT
CoolerMaster Green 600W
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 320GB

Q3 2008: $500 upgrade
Core2Quad Q6600 2.4MHz
Asus Striker II Formula
Corsair Dominator 4GB DDR2 1066MHz

Q2 2009: $1,000 HP Dv6 notebook
Athlon II Dual-Core M320 2.1GHz
4GB DDR2 800MHz
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650
Western Digital 7200RPM 320GB
15.5" TFT LCD

Q4 2010 : $1,500 PC
Intel i5 760 2.8GHz
Geil 8GB DDR3 2200MHz + cooler
EVGA P55 SLI
Asus 1GB HD 5850
G.Skill Phoenix Pro 60GB 3Gb/s SSD
CoolerMaster iGreen 620W
Corsair H50 CPU water cooler

Q1 2011: $1,200 Asus G73-JH notebook
Intel i7 740QM 2.9GHz
8GB DDR3 1333MHz
1GB Ati Mobility 5870
Seagate 7200RPM 500GB
17.3" TFT LCD

Q3 2011: $700 Alienware M11x R3
Intel i5 2467M 2.3GHz
Kingston Hyper-X 8GB 1600MHz
1GB GeForce GT 540M
Seagate 7200RPM 320GB
11.6" WLED
Intel Advanced-N WiFi Link 6205 a/g/n 2x2
Accidental Damage Service, 1 Year


Overall in PC's and laptops alone - $7,400.

Add another $1,000 for various monitors
Add another $1,000 for spare parts or replacements needed

Total so far = $9,400. Though to be fair i have sold everything except for the 3 laptops, and made back about $2,500.

 

[CheckPoint]

um 2.4mhz? lol

 

[Junkers]

um 2.4mhz? lol

He clearly meant GHz :

My old laptop:

Some crappy Intel CPU @ 1.8GHz
512MB RAM
60GB HDD
WinXP
13" screen
On-board graphics
= £400 (circa 2006)

Current PC:

Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz
Corsair 2GB DDR2 RAM @ 334MHz
1TB Samsung Spinpoint
NVIDIA 8400GS 512MB
Stock CPU (about 300/450W I guestimate)
22" LG Flatron L225WS
= £465

 

[CheckPoint]

Q3 2008
Core2Quad Q6600 2.4ghz
2 x Kingston 2gb DDR2 Ram 800mhz
Asus GTX 560
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L mobo
Western Digital 500gb 5.4k rpm
Corsair GS600
ViewSonic VA2026w
Total 1200 euro(upgraded gpu and psu)

 

[cycoextreme]

Q4 2005 :

Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz
2 X 1 GB DDR2 667 MHz
GigaByte NForce 4 SLI Mobo

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Gigabyte 500W PSU
WD 120GB 5.4k HDD

Total Cost - $1000

Q4 2011:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
4 GB DDR2 667 MHz
500W Thermaltake PSU
AS Rock MOBO
Seagate 500GB 7.2k HDD
ATI Radeon 6770 GPU

Total Cost - $140
(FrankenPC - a mix of my old, my brother in laws old one, and a refurb mobo) i just paid him for the GPU and i bought some odds and ends for it.

 

[Jolin88]

Purchased Q3 2011
CPU: Intel i7 2600k
GPU : Saphire Radeon HD6950 2GB
Memory: DDR3-1333 8GB
Hard Drive :WD 2000GB 7200RPM SATA3
Power Supply: LC-Power Prophecy 750W

total 850 euro (1110 usd)

 

[Flowan]

Q1 2010: €1400 ($1830)
Intel Core i7 930 2.8GHz
Corsair XMS3 6GB
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R
MSI R5870 1GB
Antec TruePower 650W
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB (2x)
Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2
Cooler Master CM 690 II

Q2 2011: €260 ($340)
Scyte Mugen 2 rev B
OCZ Agility 3 60GB (2x)

Total: €1660 ($2170) so far.