My Rig :( Created 13 years ago2010-12-17 17:51:36 UTC by Unbreakable

So I added up all the components today, and no wonder its taken me a year and a half to get this far!
So;

What I still need;

SSD $140
PSU $300
GTX 460 $250

Total $690

What I got;

Antec 900 Case $140.
ASUS P6T motherboard $300.
TB Hardrive $100.
OCZ DDR3 6GB $150.
Core i7-930 $350.
Zalman Cooler $100.

2x 22inch Monitors $500.
Desk $100.
Bose Speakers $150.
G-15 Keyboard $130.
Razer Mouse $60.
Windows7 64-bit OEM $100.

Total spent so far:

$2180

Still need to spend $690

And I thought building your own rig was supposed to be feckin' cheap!

Total afterwards
$2870!!

WTF

WTF indeed, I built my own rig for $300. Of course there are a few things that I didn't need:

fancy cases - any standard one works perfectly well for holding all the shizzle together.
fancy monitors - already had one, although to be fair I did get a new one later
fancy speakers
fancy keyboard and mouse - I got some standard Genius set that did just what I needed: keys to tap on and a rolling ball.
desk? I just needed to take the old computer and stuff it in the attic, presto! good ole desk without wasted space.

A PSU will not cost $300. More like 100 to 120 tops.

SSD will probably run you 100, if you get something like a 60 gb.

Building computer prices generally don't include half the shit you included anyways. Like monitors and desks.

I built an entire PC minus graphics card for $700. Add on a decent card for $300 and you have a mid-to-high range gaming PC that will play everything at maximum settings for the next 2-3 years.

So, you're doing it wrong.

WTF indeed, I built my own rig for $300.

Same, get your stuff second hand and not from retailers if you can.

Around 380$ rig, i believe:

GIGABYTE GA-K8N Pro-SLI
AMD Athlon 64 +3000
2 GB KINGSTON DDR2 RAM
Ati Radeon HD 4650 1 GB
Western Digital Caviar 160GB SATA Hard Drive

And everything else (The monitor, the keyboard, mouse...) I already had and didn't add any extra cost, it was quite outdated yes, but it ran all the newer games fine, just on mostly medium\high at lower resolutions.

Ended up spending about $1000 on mine by the time it was done, and I run BC2 on high at 60fps and Source engine with all effects, vsinc 8x AA 16x filtering (the works) at ~250fps. The next step for me would be to get a second 5750 and crossfire it, but I'll need a Mobo and PSU and that'll be another 250-300 at the most.

So yeah, I think you did it maybe just a little bit wrong. Out of your list the Mobo and PSU strike me as needlessly expensive.

Mine was free ;D

It was also a bad idea to buy the components one-by-one over the course of a year and a half. You'll find that something that was $300 a year ago might be $100 or less now. You could have bought them at a better price now, or spent the same amount on a better piece of hardware.

Individually, the parts themselves are useless. Better to have your savings gaining interest in the bank, while at the same time have your intended purchases drop in price. Once you have all the cash, buy everything at once and start using it right away rather than having increasingly overpriced boxes sitting in your cupboard waiting for you to finish buying everything else.

Jesus.. now I feel that I just should have bought one at future shop, I went for all high end products but my budget was $1300 to start

I'm not sure where you're getting your parts from Unbreakable, but as a fellow Canadian, I can tell you, my build was ~$1600 last May.

Coolermaster HAF 922...............$155
Corsair 850W PSU...................$150
LG Lightscribe DVDRW................$30
Corsair DDR2-800 4GB................$60
WD Cavair 640GB.....................$85
EVGA 750I SLi FTW..................$190
XFX GTX 285........................$385
Core 2 Duo E8400...................$200

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Total............................~$1255 + tax/shipping

My 24" 1080p monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers later added ~$450.

As Stu said, you do have some fancy stuff, like the gaming keyboard, BOSE speakers and two monitors. That said, the most expensive parts of the tower stem from the Core i7 CPU. You may see some performance increase over Core 2 Quad, but pay about twice the price for the CPU/motherboard/RAM collectively.

For your last components, look at NCIX. THey ship out of Richmond, BC and have excellent prices, and weekly sales on a wide selection of components. You can get a GTX 460 for as little as $160 after rebate. As you saw from my PSU, you can get that for half the price as well.

Don't feel too bad though, man. As someone who has made A LOT of bad purchasing decisions, I can tell you that you'll only do it once...usually.

Edit: As an added point, if you bought one at FutureShop, you wouldn't have had the satisfaction of gaming on something you put together yourself. I love that feeling.

I always build my systems and they have never gone over $500-600.

I get alot of stuff cheap or at least half off so that helps. And I just use my old case which is already huge and can fit whatever I need into it. I usually buy some new things like fans, etc. cause you wanna have fresh fans when you start a new build. I usually keep a big box fan on my computer anyways cause my station is always warm from my computer literally being in my desk all the time. You'd have to see a picture to understand.

I think I spent over $1000 once in my life for a computer. Now it's in my closet fried because it couldn't keep up. I don't see how people used to afford to pay these prices. My dad paid alot of money for the old Amiga 1000 that I still have. All together it was like $3000 dollars. It included a nice Amiga monitor with it so that probably costs a little itself. Not like there was much of a monitor selection back then. I still have an old Apple green screen too...well, so does my work....lol

Build on.

My rig costed me 560e

Intel i5 750 - 200e
mother board ga p55 udl3 - 110e
ram 2gb gail black dragon 1600mhz - 70e
hdd wd black 6401aals 640gb 32mb buff - 70e
case cooler master elite 330 - 40e
power LC power lc600 - 40e
gainward 9600GSO 512 - 30e (boughed from some guy)

Have monitor ibm g76, keyboard logitec y - bf38, mouse x750bf, cd drive LG (some uber special edition thing) and home 500w amp EI Nish and 2x100w real power speakers (this babies have their own natural bass O_o )

And it works cool. Upgrading soon, ive got 200e from one relative, and tomorrow is Saint NIcolas So that means more moneyz, yeah!
Plus my ant from Canada said she would give me some money, still nothing, damn nigga __

I built an entire PC minus graphics card for $700. Add on a decent card for $300 and you have a mid-to-high range gaming PC that will play everything at maximum settings for the next 2-3 years.

So, you're doing it wrong.

Exactly.

I built my rig almost2 years ago now, and the only upgrade i gave it was another .6 Ghz processor upgrade (from 2.4 -> 3.0Ghz: Both Core 2 Duo)
Haven't touched my ram or memory since then.
I don't need to upgrade yet, but when the time comes i'm definitely getting an i7

Built my rig 2 years ago for $900-950, and it still plays everything at high settings. Well I did upgrade my video card, only because I had to return it a few times, and then got fed up with it, so they replaced it with a better one with an additional pay.
And so I agree that $1000~ is a reasonable price for a new PC.

Building your own computer can save you money.

Stojke has an ant from Canada.

aunt xD

Moral of the story: you did it wrong.

I ordered my latest build from Newegg on Friday, and I built it yesterday afternoon (in three hours, while my son napped).

It cost just over US$1,000 And it's pretty fast.

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL
$99.99

ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM
$16.99

Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield 2.93GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor BX80605I7870
$279.99

EVGA 768-P3-1360-TR GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 768MB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
$169.99

GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3 LGA 1156 Intel P55 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
$139.99

CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 ...
$89.99

OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD for $230

I saved money by getting a good deal for the GTX 460 and using the stock CPU fan and cooler. The temperature is just fine (29 Celsius) under normal use. I think spending $100 on a CPU cooler is just crazy.

Put the money toward a larger SSD, and ditch the magnetic HDD.

nice satchmo!

Its been almost 2 years for me of buying a part every copy months..

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL
$99.99

Whoa O_o

Cool rig!

Dude, I feel sorry for you, I can't believe you decided to buy your components over the course of a year and a half. Haven't you ever heard of Moore's Law? Did it just never occur to you the entire time you were buying the parts, that if you just held your horses and saved up the money, you could have made it go so much farther?

Besides that, why on earth would you include something like a desk in the total cost of parts, unless you're just trying to artificially enlarge the number? Why not go ahead and include office chairs and housing costs as well? If you just add up the integral computer parts you listed, you come to $1830. When someone says they built a $1000 gaming PC, that's all they're listing, too. Expensive mice, overpriced keyboards, speaker systems, and even monitors and operating systems are generally not included in that price. When you buy a PC from a major manufacturer, they usually don't advertise the price with the monitors, either, and they'll just throw in a cheapo keyboard/mouse/speaker combo as freebies that probably would have cost you ten bucks at a discount store.

In the end, I don't think the price you paid was all that ridiculous, but you could have saved a considerable amount if you had thought through your purchases before making them. Indeed, for the price you paid, you could have bought a mighty powerful computer from a high-end assembler like Falcon Northwest or something.

@Crollo

GIGABYTE GA-K8N Pro-SLI
AMD Athlon 64 +3000
2 GB KINGSTON DDR2 RAM
Ati Radeon HD 4650 1 GB
Western Digital Caviar 160GB SATA Hard Drive

That computer is slower than my own four year old rig that was built with already outdated parts at the time. Why you would suggest someone build a computer with possibly faulty second-hand parts that can't comfortably run a modern operating system is beyond me.

Whoever said i was suggesting anything? I was posting my rig and how much it cost at the time.

Also fuck off, it ran all my games perfectly fine.

lol.

Sorry, wasn't in the best of moods today, hate christmas.

Why?

I agree with you Srry, thats just a grand total of everything... and I forgot my 1tb drive too.. meh whatever but yeah

I will carry pictures in my wallet and show everybody my newborn!