Single most expensive component you've bought?

£450 for a 40 meg hard drive
£800 for 16 meg of memory (absolute steal at the time)
£340 for a DX266 processor
£299 for an ATI 2 meg graphics card

More recently I suppose it was my P4 3.6 for around £300 about 3 years ago!
 
Most expensive stuff ever, are my Atari parts:-

£1299 for a 540MB SCSI HD
£699 for my first CDRW
£399 for a 4MB Upgrade... To take it to a massive.... Er... 4MB!!!

More recently...

£199 to take my TT to 10MB STRAM
£149 to let my TT take SDRAM
£300 to take my Falcon to 90MHZ

My first ever DVDRW on a PC cost me £380... These days I would not pay over £30 for one
 
Paid just slightly over £500 for very first DVD Writer for PC. Pioneer DVDR -A03
Don't even want to think what i was paying for the Media at the time. Scary!
 
Mickf71 said:
Paid just slightly over £500 for very first DVD Writer for PC. Pioneer DVDR -A03
Don't even want to think what i was paying for the Media at the time. Scary!
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Ooops forgot about my first CD Writer.
5 of us paid £1000 each for a 1x writer and disks were £12 each at the time.
We also had to buy 2 x 1 gig SCSI HD's at around £1000 each because you had to put the stuff on one HD and then compile to the other and then burn it at 1x to the writer :eek:


We were going to take goes and turns in having the system for a week each and I was going to make audio cd's of local bands etc but the first guy who had it got raided for phone phreaking and when they went into his bedroom he had 50 copies of the £300 Encarta 95 ready to sell at £50 each. Everything got confiscated and I lost a lot of money.
 
james.miller said:
erm. can i count my sony lcd as a monitor then? in that case, £1699. if not its my 8800gtx - £399.
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Lol, that's what I was going to ask. If I can count my tv as a monitor (it is used for this purpose) then it would be my Sony at £1400 :eek: Most on an internal part is probably the 4Gb ram, came to about £340 ish.
 
jammir said:
£650 or so on a Philips 2x SCSI CD-R drive back in 1996 i believe those where the days :) CDRWIN
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That just shows technology in one year.
Ours was bought in 95 and cost £5000 for 1x and 1 year later it dropped to £650 and doubled in speed to 2x.
Everything was done in DOS too so there was no CDRWIN then.
Can you remember if you had to use two SCSI HD's to compile with.

It was a couple of years later when I bought a Yamaha 4x for £450 from Millennium Computers (OCUK) but you needed a £140 SCSI card to go with it.
 
£420 on my 19inch viewsonic vp930
£400 on my x850xtpe
£350 on pc4200 OCZ EL 2gb dual chan memory
£420 on my BFG 8800GTX
(all bought off ocuk)

My god i cant believe i did it that many times even though each time i said to myself, NEVER AGAIN!

Planning on getting a 36inch samsung for £600 now >>

Pretty funny as the only item there i bought when i was earning is actually the bfg, really does make me wonder where i got the cash from :S
 
Would have to be my 8800gtx ordered 20 minutes after they were unveiled :D

~£400 for the bfg. :eek:

Next in line was my trust vx912b that turned out to not be so trusty and got replaced with a semi faulty vx924b. :(

~£320 iirc.
 
£800 for my dell 30" screen :)

Got a receipt here for £200 for a cdwriter... Very early single speed HP writer back in the day :)

Sam C
 
Silverstone TJ07 - £220.

Waterchill Triple Radiatior Extreme Watercooling when everyone recommended the Swiftec Apex Ultra. around £300.

Mach II GT £285.

I have also spent £390 on QX6600 and £100 on X1950 Pro recenetly on an auction site that were scams. :mad:
 
£650 on my Dell 2001FP about 3/4 years ago when they first appeared. And that was about 300 less because from the US.

Crazy money but i know i'll have it and use it for many years, 1600x1200 roxxors!
 
I reckon £340 on an X2 4400+, or maybe £450 on a mach 2 chilly 1??

My 2405fpw "cost" me £800 but I bought loads when they were on buy one get one half price years ago and sold loads so ended up in profit.. I paid £300 for an x850xtpe but again they were on offer and I made a profit..

The X2 4400 was bought with 2gb of corsair 3500ll pro, a new mobo, new psu and 2 7800gtx cards.. that was a £1600 "upgrade" without a doubt the most expensive pc day I've ever had.. never been that extreme since. Don't plan to be ever again tbh.
 
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