QOTD: How Much Did You Spend on Your PC?
We're all computer and hardware enthusiasts. We all love building, tweaking, and upgrading our systems for the most performance.
That said, often times stores and other places still try to rip you off. So it's best to shop around and shop where most of your friends shop so you can have a bit of peace of mind. Online shops also provide speedy service and cheaper prices than local stores. Who shops at local stores these days anyway right?
I remember buying a stick of 32 MB of EDO DRAM way back when, for $300! Those times are gone now. After I moved on to a more powerful system, the 32 MB of EDO was still useful, in my Sound Blaster AWE 32--yep, it took memory modules.
The question of the day is: How much have you spent on your entire PC?
Include things like speakers, etc. What's the most costly part of your computer?
Was it all worth it?

I built a new computer for $350 and took the CPU, GPU, and HDDs from the dead Dell and put it in here. It's just been a series of upgrades since.
My beater computer today CoreDuo 2, 4Gig ram, 1Gig Ram Video Card, two 640Gig HD, 2 dvd burners, blah blah... $850.
O ya and I will never buy a $500 dell junk box ever again!!
And a Big thanks to tomshardware for helping me to build and OC my rig
The current was $700 initially. pentium D at 2.8ghz, 1gig ram, nvidia 7500LE 256mb graphics, 80gig hdd.
I immediately added a 250gig hdd for $120. I just added a $90 ati 4670 512mb.
The keyboard came with the rig. The mouse was $60 4 years back. The speakers cost $20. The 17" LCD cost $450 3.5 years back (ripoff). A second LCD for free.
I bought everything locally.
Total setup is about $1500 if I include AV software (foolish of me).
Its been worth every penny. Except the LCD which viewsonic won't fix even though it has power issues. About to spent a few hundred more, slowly on mobo, psu, ram, then hdd.
All pricing is in Canadian. I;d say $1200 USD
$6k.
That isn't quite fair though, because a solid $3k of that was the stereo system - I have my computer hooked up to a full speaker setup with a receiver, separately purchased 12" sub, etc.
The best thing about building your own system is the ability to reuse so many components.
Xion Case Antec Earthwatts 500 ASUS A8N Deluxe AMD Athlon 64 +3500 Venice Socket 939 1 Gig of Generic Ram =( Evga 7600 Gt Seagate Barracuda 320 GB 7200.10 Sony Optic Drive,My first mobo was the a8n deluxe and it was doa and i didnt know so i thought i had done something wrong with wiring connections but i got an rma and got a a8n32 Sli deluxe from some lucky hapenstance, now my athlon 3500 gave out about 2 months ago, tomorrow im purchasing gigabyte ud4h 790gx + phenom II X3 720 and 4 gigs of reaper =D