When is enough?

dokko

dokko

dokko

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I'm sitting here, looking about the OC shop, drooling over new products, and thinking back to machine and wanting a new CPU, mem, MOBO & GFX cards!

I only bought this lot in December 05 and paid £800, but i just cant help wanting more.

Its idiotic, but i seriously dont care, if i won a sneeky grand tomorrow, i'd spend at least half of it on computer parts!

The worst thing i ever did back in 96 was build my own computer.

Even worse than that i dont even have any spare time to play these grahpically superb games, and even worse than that i cant even afford to buy em.

All this to play FM if i do get the chance.

Seriously need me head read.
 
Tony Williams said:
The computer addiction, just after shelling out a lot of money on a rig, some new sexy parts are released and you just have to buy them. :(
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Should start a club:

"Hi my name's Steven, and i'm addicted to computer parts."

"I thought i could handle the urge, but the next thing you know my cards are maxed, and i'm crawling the internet searching for my next fix."
 
Rivey said:
I know the feeling.

I spend more time trying to justify the purchase of new parts than I do deciding on which ones to buy!
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I have a nasty habit of waiting (looking & researching) and waiting, finding out what i want buy it, and in two weeks its half price.

I have a knack for it, and the main reason i have an urge to upgrade.
 
Hades said:
I used to be like this. But recently I've become a bit obsessed with finding cheap deals on used items. It's a lot cheaper and very satisfying :)
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Second-hand is the way to go.

I want to get something off the members market here, but aint used it before and would be terrifiyed of getting bumped.
 
Hades said:
That's always possible. But I think the chances of it happening here are lower than on the "auction place" if you stick to not only good feedback but long standing members with high post counts as well as feedback.
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I very much trust this place compared to "tap" its just ive never used MM and wouldn't know how to go about buying.

I'm sure its simple, just need a seller with some paitence.
 
Hades said:
When you see something you want, make an offer. If the seller is happy with the price then take it to email. Personally I don't use PayPal, etc and am only really happy to send or receive money through Bank Transfer (easy with Internet Banking). Send the money. When it clears then the seller posts your item.

Ensure the seller is posting with insured recorded delivery (RMSD - Royal Mail Special Delivery is even better but costs more). This proves if it was sent and whether it got there.

Admittedly it gets a bit harder if the item was faulty on arrival. But assuming the seller posted it when working, then the insured delivery would cover it. It's quite simple but obviously takes a bit longer than buying from a shop.
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Whats email in trust then?

I hear loads of people say it, i'm guessing its taking it to private email convo's?
 
Minstadave said:
Everyone can activate their trust accounts when they have over 250 posts (click the trust button under one of your posts), this gains you access to the Members Market and you can see peoples email address and feedback rating in the trust profiles.
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Will check it out, unfortunatly i cant remember me password.

I need to speak to admin actually, how is that possible round here?
 
Virdi said:
May I join this club please :(

I have just built up a new rig based on an e6400 and Gigabyte DS4.... But now I want to go further and want to try an e6700 in a 975x chipset board and get watercooling.

I want it to stop... But it's not going to.... At the end of the year we'll have Kentsfield... and that'll be like starting again... :(

Here is a list of all the hardware I have - But don't actually use:

CPUs
S478 - P4 - 2.0Ghz - 400FSB
S478 - P4 - 2.4Ghz - 533FSB
S478 - P4 - 3.0Ghz Prescott 800FSB - (new)
S478 - P4 - 3.0Ghz Prescott 800FSB - (SL7E4) - Great Clocker.
S478 - P4 - 3.4Ghz Northwood 800FSB
S775 - P4 - 3.4Ghz (550)
S775 - P4 - 3.2Ghz (540J) - SL7PW - Great Clocker
S775 - P4 - 3.0Ghz (930)
S775 - P4 - 3.4Ghz (950) - es

Socket A - XP2500-M - AMD - Great Clocker


Hard Disks
2 x 36Gb Raptors (SATA)
2 x 74Gb Raptors (SATA)
2 x 400Gb Hitachi (SATA II) - New
2 x 80Gb Western Digital (SATA) - New
1 x 120Gb Samsung Spinpoint (SATA) - New
1 x 80Gb Samsung Spinpoint (SATA) - New
1 x 120Gb Western Digital (IDE)
1 x 120Gb Maxtor (IDE)
1 x 200Gb Maxtor (IDE)

2.5"
2 x 80Gb - Freecom Classic USB (New)
2 x 60Gb - Freecom Classic USB (New)


M/Boards
Asus P4S800
Asus P4C800-E-Deluxe
Asus P5AD2-E-Premium (Wireless Edition)
Asus P5RD1-V-Deluxe - New

Abit AN7 - Socket A

Shuttle - SB75G2
Asus T2P - Terminator

RAM
1 x 256Mb - DDR400 - Corsair Value
1 x 256Mb - DDR400 - Ellixer
2 x 512Mb - DDR400 - Corsair Value - (New)
2 x 512Mb - DDR400 - Corsair XL (2-2-2-5)
2 x 512Mb - DDR500 - Ballistix
2 x 512Mb - DDR500 - Ballistix
2 x 1Gb - DDR500 - Ballistix - (New)
2 x 512Mb DDR2 - 533 - Crucial
2 x 512Mb - DDR2 - 533 - Crucial
2 x 512Mb - DDR2 - 533 - Corsair


Coolers
3 x Thermalright XP120
XP90c - Lapped
2 x TT Big Typhoon
AC Freezer (S478)
2 x Scythe Ninja

Graphics Cards
9800se AGP
GeForce 3 - AGP
6600 - Gigabyte - AGP (New)
Asus 6600GT
ATI X850 Pro



.....Do you think I have a problem? :rolleyes:
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Jesus!

Get the lot sold and you could build one beast of a computer.
 
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