could have bought a car, but spent it on my 'puter!

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I think I touched a nerve :eek:

Adz said:
How could you possibly be "willy waving" (cringe) by posting that you spent £1100 on a PC. Who on this forum hasn't done that at some point?
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Just because it's only £1100 doesn't mean he wasn't "willy waving" (hate that term too). He seems to think it's a big deal to be spending that much.

I have no problem with people letting us know what they've bought, if they're happy etc.. just the way this guy did it seemed to focus much more on the money he'd spent rather than what he'd actually got out of it.
 
Absolutely pointless, given that you can get a setup for a 3rd of that price that, in the real world, will run it almost identical for performance.

But hey, epeen for the win. You stick to buying that, I'll stick to overclocking Core2Duo's, 8800GTS's, getting similar framerates and... having a car as well.

It's absolutely dead money, in 6 months time that lot will be worth very little of what you paid for it. I used to spend all my cash on bleeding edge stuff as well and I've got NOTHING to show for it bar, at the time, a cool sig, some epeen and some 3dmarks.

The low-high end stuff is just far better value.

What can your computer do that mine can't?
 
This thread didn't come across to me as 'willy waving', in fact the thought never crossed my mind until someone suggested it.

It's no less valid than many other threads I come across in GD.
 
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This thread didn't come across to me as 'willy waving', in fact the thought never crossed my mind until someone suggested it.
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It's often a subconcious motivating factor for spending ridiculous amounts of money on hardware you don't need, though. Keeping up with the rest of the forum, etc etc.

Hardware tends to follow a curve of price/performance - buying at the top of the curve is daft - there is usually a sweet spot where you get a lot of performance for the cash but subsequent large price increases do not give a proportional benefit in performance.
 
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It's often a subconcious motivating factor for spending ridiculous amounts of money on hardware you don't need, though. Keeping up with the rest of the forum, etc etc.
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To be fair to the poor guy its not as if dropping a grand on some cutting edge hardware is the end of the world if its his hobby....posting about it i dont understand at all, but we all have different opinions on whether things are worth what we have spent on them.
 
The very fact he made this post - combined with his age - points to that fact its a lot of money to him.

It's a lot of money to most of us.
 
It's often a subconcious motivating factor for spending ridiculous amounts of money on hardware you don't need
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Or on expensive bottles of wine or Champers that you're just going to pee against a wall anyway, but hey, who are we to judge ;)

My white chocolate butt sure aint jealous!
 
Adz said:
How could you possibly be "willy waving" (cringe) by posting that you spent £1100 on a PC. Who on this forum hasn't done that at some point?

Some people just like to bitch and moan because they've got nothing else in their lives. It's really sad :(.
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Me. :D

I'm too money conscious to ever consider spending £1000+ on something that depreciates so quickly. [I say this, knowing in a year or too I'll be buying a car :(]

My current rig [AMD Athlon XP-M, 512mb OCZ Ram, 180gb HDD, Radeon 9700pro, Abit NF7-s] cost £300 when built 3+ years ago, all with second-hand parts. Within the next month or two I'm looking to build my second 'all used parts' rig with a spending limit of £600. :D

Yes, I'm cheap. Bite me.
 
I've no idea how much mine cost becuase I don't count, but it's a Core2Duo E4300 @ 3Ghz (So, E6700 pretty much), 4Gb OCZ PC6400 (2gb on order, 2gb fitted), BFG 8800GTS OC @ 650/1000 iirc, etc etc.

Probably less than half what his cost, yet every game I throw at it, it eats.

And I can give all the money I've saved to my local Shell garage! Wayhay. Doh.

I could have spent an extra £500 and ended up with a Quad Core CPU and a GeForce 8800GTX OC2. In the real world, what benefit would this have brought me? Instead, I can spend that £500 on shiney things like... wheels. Or petrol. Or Subway subs. Or the Dell D620 I've just got for Uni.
 
I used to always spend my money on the latest computer bits but over the last few years i've realised for me it's pointless. As long as the thing turns on, goes on the Internet and lets me do uni work on it it's fine.

Trying to keep up with the latest stuff is just like putting your money in the fire.
 
got a duron 1ghz/512mb ram/xp, on board everything. it's a web browser/mp3/netradio player - one of these days i'll get round to seeing if it'll play mpeg video.. :D

Got a P2-350@233mhz/256mb/6gb/2kpro system that i use as a downloader (soon to be upgraded to bigger hd to account for larger file downloads), through VNC...

£1100 is a lot to spend on a PC, especially for just the parts you got. if you got a big monitor, all in 1 printer, etc it wouldn't be too bad. But that's what really high performance, quality computers cost.

I have never had that much money to spend on a PC. My main rig is a very overclocked XP-M1600, gf4 ti, Tagan psu, dfi infinity, BH5 ram that i assembled largely from 2nd hand parts from MM, had it water cooled at one point, cost me about £400 when i built it (the chip was new) and it has been a very good pc, still does everything i want it to. It's now made to look a bit silly by the recently purchased £500 samsung R20 c2d laptop - C2d 1.73 (5300?) 2gb ram, vista, 120gb hd, radeon 1250 gfx.

my car cost about £900 all in (v.light scratch gone rusty damage, bargain, repair then mods, i do my own work) so i guess my computers cost more than my car :eek: i'm actually quite worried by this :eek:
 
My mate beats you all hands down. He's still running, well it sort of chugs along, this :-

Duron 900MHz (Socket A)
768MB PC100
32MB Riva TNT2
98SE
 
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