What's your most expensive gaming purchase ever? (And was it worth it?)

[Bofferbrauer2]

My PC in 2010, comprising of:

• AMD Athlon II X4 640
• AMD Radeon HD 5770
• A Sharkoon Big Tower with 10 external 5'25" slots (was to be used as a home server later down the road)
• An Asus AM3 880G Motherboard
• 8GB DDR3-1333 in 7-7-7-21 timings from G-skill
• A Blu-Ray combo drive (thought I bought a Blu*Ray burner, but got burnt on that one)
• A 650W PSU from B*Quiet
• A B*Quiet Dark Rock Slim CPU cooler
• 3 140mm B*Quiet casefans
• A 23-inch Samsung Full-HD Screen
• A new Canon printer/scanner
• A Logitech G15 Keyboard
• A Roccat Kone Mouse
• A Wifi Adaptor (Board with Wifi were exceedingly rare back then)
• A Sound card (can't remember which one exactly, but it was from Soundblaster)
• A Multi-card reader
• Completely forgot: a Windows 7 Ultimate license, then valued at roughly 150€

Including testing and shipping (which were at around 200€), it cost me about 1600€ all in all.

Nowadays a PC with a similar level of hardware would be quite a lot more expensive. The CPU and GPU together cost me around 300€, nowadays a Ryzen 7 7700 plus 9070XT, which would be around the same level, would cost me close to 3 times that.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 03 June 2026