Quote Originally Posted by Nix View Post
I think my desktop upgrade that I did recently cost me under $300 ~_~;, took a few months to gather the parts but I hawked newegg constantly and waited for sales :x

New motherboard (old one had a wonky connection that caused BSODs...yay!)
New RAM - only 8GB but that's all I really need, and there's room to add more down the line.
Graphics card on discount - Radeon HD5770, was like $100 with sale + mail-in rebate (yay for sales!)
Windows 7 64bit OEM ver.... took me a long time before I willingly upgraded from xp ; ;

Spending $7k is an absolute waste, you can build a sweet unit for much much less.
Windows 7 is pretty good imo. I think someone (Wynn?) said that he spent 7K across 3 different computers (so 3 badass computers ~2K).