How much £££ do you spend on your rig each year?

Last year I spent about £600 on a GTX 280 and 24" monitor.

This year I spent about £600 on a new case, i7 setup, and new HDD.

However, i don't plan to upgrade again until i'm out of uni in 4 years.
 
ah that sounds promising then, bit annoying though as i had an old account that i was never able to access (from many years ago) now this is a new account. :( ah well
 
DAMO RAM80 said:
So far this year

3 cases £430
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HUH, I hope to god those are for 3 separate builds, or the previous 2 cases literally fell apart all at once.

4gb of memory as I thought my 2gb of D9 TEAM stuff was dieing. Something to do with the HDD/motherboard interface was borked and the TEAM stuff was fine :rolleyes:

O well, 4gb :D
 
I build a new rig at approx £600 every 2.5 years (4 times per decade), then an extra ~£150 per year for upgrades. If I have parts that are considered "good", then I'll simply carry them through to my next build. Examples are: My 2 WD Raptors, my BFG 800-watter and my trusty ancient HP PSC1350 :-)
 
As little as possible!

Just a Boogie Bug mat and a can of compressed air this year, I think...

I did buy a laptop though, does that count?
 
i spend 1000 quid once every 4 years :D

and right now i'm rebuilding again... so far i've spent 250 quid in 2 months and it feels like i've brought sod all.

1....... case
2........fans
3........samsung HD
4........Megahalems
5........Acousti insulation foam

NEXT MONTH..........blu-ray and PSU
MONTH AFTER THAT.........CPU and the DDR3 RAM

then nothing more to next May, so it's a long haul; in the meantime i'm using my old rig which is working ok now :eek::eek::eek:
 
This year, got rid of my oldest S939 rig & switching to AM3

-£190 upgrading to NEC 24WMGX3 24" TFT
+10 Switching DDR 1 to DDR 3
-£90 upgrading Motherboard
-£120 upgrading CPU
+£70 downgrading graphics card
-£150 new PSU
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£470 spent this year.

May get some quieter cooler/case fans or get a fan controller as they are now the loadest part of my system.

Next planned upgrade for new year = get a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5*** Vapor-X 1024MB / 2048MB when available OR HIS IceQ version if available.

I might switch to P55 chipset the outlay wont be that major, but doubt it will be worth it for gaming anyway.
 
i bought a new pc this year, so not really an udgrade, but i cant really see a point in upgrading anything atm, at most it'll probably be a new HDD or an SSD
 
So far this year I have only bought:

Dust filters X2 - £8 "LIFE SAVER"
Case fans X2 - £24 "GREEN"
GPU 260GTX - £100 "FAST"

= £132

Not to bad, done worse:eek:
 
Random Guy said:
Aren't you better off waiting to next May for the core system then (mobo, CPU, RAM)?

Prices will have dropped etc.
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i'm getting MOBO/CARD next year.............but i'm expecting nothing new from AMD this or next year, so i'll get the 955 at Xmas; if it drops far enough, the 965 is a total waste of time, it's a 955 in disguise

RAM, well who cares if it drops by 10 quid next may, i'd rather have it now

dont forget next year, i'll also need Win 7, so i have to save quite a bit of money for next june.... because GTX 300 wont be cheap
 
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my toy budget is around £1500-£2000 a year. bit more this year as Button winning the first gp of the year made me £1000 or so. This budget is split between PC's, TV, Consoles, Networking etc.
 
Not a lot, probably sub £100. I've had to replace a few dodgy components and buy other spare stuff such as USB drives, DVD disks etc.

I think its worth spending quite a bit of money though, when I think about it, I use my computer on a daily basis, so it pays for itself. £1000ish or so on a new build isn't much compared to spending a similar amount on a 2-3 week holiday.
 
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