Can anyone remember the prices of there PC Components back in the voodoo GPU days (late 90's) ??

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OK who here is old and has a good memory :D


Can anyone here remember how much they payed for there PC Components in the late 90's (around the years 97 to 99) and what them Components were..


Example
Can you remember how much you payed for any of these
Cpu
Memory
Motherboard
GPU
Harddrive/s
CD-writer OR CD-ROM
Case
PSU
monitor/s
 
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I remember buying a Plextor CD writer in the earlier 2000s for about £115.

I also remember buying 8 MB of 72 pin SIMM RAM for about £40 in the mid 90s.
 
THe original 3DFX Voodoo 1 addon card was about £120.

I think cases, PSUs, and monitor have stayed relatively the same price. FOr example i remember paying around £400 for a refurbed Sony Trinitron 21" monitor. Frikkin huge it was.
 
TruffleShuffle said:
THe original 3DFX Voodoo 1 addon card was about £120..
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Think i remember paying £70 for my voodoo1 card and £120 for my voodoo2 card (But i maybe totally wrong)

TruffleShuffle said:
FOr example i remember paying around £400 for a refurbed Sony Trinitron 21" monitor. Frikkin huge it was.
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I payed around £450 for 17" iiYama's VisionMaster Pro monitor in 97
and then i pay around another £450 for the bigger 19" iiYama's VisionMaster Pro in 99
 
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chaparral said:
Think i remember paying £70 for my voodoo1 card and £120 for my voodoo2 card (But i maybe totally wrong)

I payed around £450 for 17" iiYama's VisionMaster Pro monitor in 97
and then i pay around another £450 for the bigger 19" iiYama's VisionMaster Pro in 99
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Oooh yeah, you might be right about the Voodoo cards.

I remember having a Matrox Mystique + a 3DfX Voodoo 1. Awesome sauce.
 
my first CD writer was £250 a plextor scsi, 2x speed haha, the not so good old days, or were they good?

i used to get my sdram from a place in the states, something thermodynamics, because it was the fastest around.

all that money, gone.
 
Metalface Mark said:
My first full pc with a 1x cd reader, DX250 and 4mb of ram cost just under £2000.
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I still found it almost impossible to believe how cheap it is to build a PC now days compared to how much it used to cost..

Specialty when you include the increase in wages now compared to back then
 
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In 2000 I remember buying 32MB of SDRAM as the price had just come down to [drum roll please] below £1/MB so I got it for £30 and thought I had a bargain...

FluffySheep
 
I recall paying £120 for 4 x 1MB (yeah, megabyte!) ram modules in about 1989/1990. The speed increase it gave was huge, so at the time the money was well spent.
 
Still have one of these somewhere. 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP. :D

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IMHO, 3dfx was one of the innovators in the industry. Would be nice to see what they would be up to nowadays if they were still around. :(
 
The actual prices have not changed radically for a standard PC of the time with a standard amount of ram and disk space. It has always been around £1000 for a full system and half that for a partial upgrade of motherboard, cpu, memory and hard disk.
My 'significant' purchases were £900 for a 286 full system in 1991, about £500 for an upgrade to 486DX33 in 1993, a new full system for athlon XP in 2000 cost over £800. I spent £500 upgrading a 939 system to a hexa AMD system in 2009.
Needless to say I have spent hundreds on intermediate upgrades including the Voodoo 2 3DFX.
 
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