Wheres my inv SE!

[Nix]

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.

[Shougun]

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).

[Daku_Naito]

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.

It depends on what you are doing. My setup is currently around 2500 bucks, and I am doing a huge mod to it that will add a few hundred in tools and sleeving. The point I was making is that it is easy to shell out huge bucks. As you spend more and more the price per performance goes down, but you still get it. You can get two Xeons for 4 grand and a 600 dollar motherboard and a 600 dollar case easy. Then go for very high end ram and get 128 gb and end of spending 2 grand just on ram. Not to even mention the grand spend on 1 tb of SSD storage or the 2 grand spend on a quadro card/2 gtx 690s. Then you have all the cooling to worry about.

I am fine with my system though. It didn't start out being so expensive but as you add monitors, an extra graphics card and a stand it does go up there. I am fixing to have a lot of fun actually creating my own cables for the system to look just perfect.

[Nix]

It depends on what you are doing. My setup is currently around 2500 bucks, and I am doing a huge mod to it that will add a few hundred in tools and sleeving. The point I was making is that it is easy to shell out huge bucks. As you spend more and more the price per performance goes down, but you still get it. You can get two Xeons for 4 grand and a 600 dollar motherboard and a 600 dollar case easy. Then go for very high end ram and get 128 gb and end of spending 2 grand just on ram. Not to even mention the grand spend on 1 tb of SSD storage or the 2 grand spend on a quadro card/2 gtx 690s. Then you have all the cooling to worry about.

I am aware of this haha, me and my other half build PCs as a hobby and for friends^^;. You *can* spend crazy amounts of money, it's not hard... but it is often a waste to do so as average joe won't use the computer to its full potential.