Confessions of a hardware addict.

jarvis82

jarvis82

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I live with a dark secret.

Back in late August I went to Jersey for a week with my girlfriend, and a lovely week it was too. Whilst sunning it up on cosy beaches, admiring the clear blue water, I could be observed thumbing through a couple of PC hardware mags that I had taken with me. The free hotel wifi also came in useful as I spent the odd spare minute scouring the OcUK forums for advice.

On the last day, I waited for my girlfriend to go for a shower, and quick as a flash placed an order with OcUK, for next day delivery. The next day I was back at home in the UK, sure that my girlfriend would be at her parents house most of the day. The order arrived, and I knew I had only hours to assemble all the components for my new i7 system.

I managed it, and due to the Lancool case's similar appearance to my old Antec 300, my girlfriend is none the wiser that I threw 850 quid at a lovely new rig!

This week I upgraded my monitor - much more difficult to conceal, so I didn't try - instead resigning myself to the torrent of abuse I would get for wasting money on unnecessary items of pointless computer hardware! The fact that the purchase had been funded by the old monitor and various other old components being sold on the well known auction site, and even yielding some profit AFTER the purchase of said new monitor, did little to deter the frowning and general discontent!

I love my new system. I love that my SSD loads Win7 in less than 25 seconds. I love the GTX 460 hardly breaking a sweat when I have a few minutes spare to throw some games at it. I LIKE my PC. But oh the guilt...

:-)

I thought that would be it too, but all I can think about now is a bigger PSU and a second GTX 460! Oh, when will it end?!

Sorry for boring everyone...

EDIT - this should probably be in General Discussion, so my apologies for cluttering up the Gen Hardware forum.
 
My SI spends a lot of her money on jewellery from ebay (luckily she has good taste and a good eye, so most of it is good, actually :P).

I spend on hardware once or twice every few months.

We have a tiff about it every now and again, but it sorta balances out.

C'mon, she doesn't spend her own money on luxury items of her own? :D
 
sounds abit like me

hide all the empty boxes

also when she did find out, lie about the price!

hey but she doesn't seem to complain when she play games on it and its super smooth.
 
lmao i actually know where he's coming from when ever i buy something 'its like do you really need that ?' and iam like 'it only cost a fiver them 480's are old tech now thats why there so hot' and shee goes 'arhhh i thought the central heating was broke ' and she walks off, man 1, women nil :D muu hahaha
 
I had this problem, my solution was to get the missus addicted to every gadget going...before she met me she had a basic basic phone (oh and a Sega Megadrive, how old is that), what does she have now?

Smartphone, Samsung Galaxy (Guess what I told her about it)
Laptop, my recommendation,
Nintendo DSI, Christmas present from me :)
Desktop PC...built by me for free!
Ipod Touch, I encouraged her...

That was my solution, she is now more addicted to tech then me, she sees the benefits and leaves me in peace to use my I7 PC and upgrade as much as I can afford.

Basically, to summarise. You need to turn her to the dark side and get her to join the Sith! Er make her understand the benefits of your hobby..

Cheers

Von
 
I'm not so much of a addict now but in my older days (we are talking 486 era here) my then wife (now ex) hated me spending money on my computer with a vengence.

I didn't spend too much and she used to go ballistic.

So what I used to do was have the items delivered to where I worked in London, and I'd either lie to my boss and tell him I had a meeting over lunch and would be back late or that I had to go out to a meeting with someone, and then leave the office with my newly delivered gear (whilst leaving my jacket on the back of my seat so it looked like I was still about), then travel the 60 minutes journney back home on the train, install the new gear and put the boxes in the loft, and finally travel back to work just in time to collect my jacket and leave the office for the day to go back home again !

I did come unstuck once, I ordered a VL Bus (this was pre PCI) Graphics card and when I went to install it, I could not get it to fit as the slot was stiff, so I had to take the computer to bits to get the motherboard out so I could place it on a nice flat and firm surface, and then rebuild the computer. By the time I finished this it was almost 5pm and was pointless for me to return to work, but the wife was due home in about 20 minutes, and I shouldn't have been back home until 6pm, so I ended up walking to a nearby park and sitting on the swings to 60 minutes to kill some time, then bowled in though the door bang on 6pm as normal.

Diddy
 
Am I really the only one who thinks the OP is a wuss? can't tell the missus you want a new PC so order one behind her back, then can't bring yourself to tell her you got actually got one?
If i ever want any thing new I tell the missus i "need" it, then I buy it, she accepts it because that's what they do, they accept you for who you are.
If you have to lie to your missus about spending nearly a grand of your own money on some thing you really want, then you don't deserve her TBH, this is some thing she wont accept and will probably leave you over.
 
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