Is this desperate?

You close to leaving for uni?

Not to upset the folks it would be easiest to wait until you go to uni then assemble your new box, keep the old one there in the event your parents visit. This seems pretty extreme but hey.

I know how you feel though, dad helped me pay for uni aswell but if you have worked for your own money and have some savings to spend - you should be able to spend it how you like. Providing you can actually afford it.

My parents were/are pretty strict but I had a part-time job at 16 and built my own PC without too much of an issue. If you approach your parents and explain your thinking I'd be surprised if they said no, you seem like a sensible chap. If they still say no, ask why? and how you could change that. I'm sure you're parents went through something similar in their youth - make reference to it! Take them back :)
 
Damn, not a bad job that!

Also, growing a second pair could be useful at Uni! No idea how but I'm sure you'd find something ;p

Good luck getting this sorted though man! Best bet for you right now is that paypal account! Would create a good solution! ;p

kd
 
Posts have made me laugh op needs to tell parents where to go your old enough to make your own choices hows he going to get any where in life if he can't deal with parents, boys going to get ripped a new one at uni

As to faking broken pc just move bios reset jumper pc will not boot at all then whilst still keeping all your parts in working order
 
Why don't you just have it delivered the post office so your parents wouldn't know about it? I would seriously ditch them ASAP, when you go to uni move as far away as possible.
 
say you're buying a new case to help cool your current PC and cool the parts to keep them going longer....then buy the new PC with the new case and they won't know the difference. I mean seriously how many parents know a new CPU from an old one?
 
Read all the thread and do sympathise. However, I take it your parents plan to bankroll you in Uni to the tune of many thousands over the next few years? If this is the case its pretty tough to argue the case with them, although I do agree they are being unreasonable.

If you were financially independent, they wouldn't really have a say in the matter, although going to Uni and the aforementioned is pretty difficult.

I don't think destroying your PC (or even making it look like it is) is going to work anyway. Your parents are pretty determined you aren't going to spend a few hundred quid on a new PC.

As for advice I say, suck it up if you want their money for Uni. Once you are there you can do whatever you want.
 
I don't think you have much of a choice the way you describe things. You could try various shennanigans like sabotaging your current PC but it's very high risk - you might end up without a PC at all, or with a PC but without your parents' money when you're at uni.

My advice is save up and buy something decent when you get to Uni, they won't be able to control your expenditure as easily then. And you won't be living with them so late-night FPS sessions with your clan become a possibility.

Don't see it as missing out on something: look at it as an opportunity to check out all the hundreds of classic old skool games that will run on your current PC just fine! ;) I'm actually serious - once you have a machine that can handle new games you'll be too busy getting distracted by every shiny new toy to check out the real classics. Between now and then you can maybe replay some of the old Infinity Engine RPGs, get good at Quake Live, check out some of the old Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games, the list is endless! Plus tbh your computer is OK for practically every other use apart from HD video. Unless you plan to do hardcore video editing of course.

What do you plan to do at uni anyway? (sorry if you already said and I missed it)
 
Chemistry degree.

And old style games don't seem to like PC, NFS:Carbon for example is what 5 years old? I get 9 fps in a race with everything lowest.

I get 20odd in Quake 2 - and that's from 1998!

Also, I do quite like editing, which I can't do :(

Working out a deal atm, think I might have found something :p
 
Your going onto a chemistry degree and your parents wont let you buy your own PC with your own money?

My parents got me a £1200 gaming PC with an Athlon 1400, Geforce 3 and Soundblaster Platinum after I passed my GCSEs, although it had a completely rubbish build quality. That was the last thing they bought me and it lasted a good long time.

3 years with that, then 3 years with a S939 build with a few GPU upgrades inbetween, then I went crazy with upgrading like a maniac after I got my E8400 build.
 
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