£660 = $1320.

Athlon 64 X2 6000+ / ATI Radeon X1950PRO / 2GB DDR2 / Windows Vista + Ubuntu 7.10

It's such a rip off here in Europe...

I spent 2600 for my Toshiba Satellite that I bought two years ago

too much, i got a
thermatake armor case - £100
Plextor DVD RW - £65
Seagate 250GB HD - £88
MSI Motherboard - Free From Work
P4 HT 3Ghz CPU - Free From Work
Corsair 2GB Ram - £72
Radeon 9550 crappy thing that needs to go - £50
Asus 17" crystalbrite Monitor - £250
Samsung 20" monitor - £210
loads of cooling stuff and dvd and floppy and crard reader - £100

£935, will be getting a new pc had that for 3 years my samsung monitor i got last week and i had my acer monitor for 2 years so will keep that a little longer

£1200 for the base unit....

Dad spent $630 on this piece of crap computer that we have. -_-

 That's a serious rig man, glad to see more PC gamers know and appreciate the value of quick RAM!

My PC was given to me as a present.

thanks for posting guys.

For mine it was a gift, because my last computer f-ed up. I shut it down when
I went on holidays, and when I got back it I tried to turn it on and it said data was corrupt or something and wouldn't start! lol

Anyways mine was about $1500, but its not a gaming computer, just a regular home computer.

about £1000 which is like $2000 :)

Intel Q6600

4GB PC6400 Ram

Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB

500GB WD 16MB cache HD

Antec 900 case

Microsoft Intelli mouse

Samsung 206BW 20' Widescreen monitor

Samsung 20* DVD rw

Msi Platinum 650i

Sennhaiser headset

My first PC, little more than entry-level (k6-166, 32MB) with mid-range graphics card, cost more than $2000 in 1997. The 17" CRT little less than $1000 (prices VAT included) (Note: I'm doing approximated conversion lire/$ and euros/$)

Three years later I was able to upgrade it completely (except for the monitor, then still good), Duron 650, 128MB, later expanded to 384, bigger HD, ATX case, GeFo II MX, etc. for less than $1000, more than triplicating performances.

After I spent very little to update it every now and then, roughly $300 the first time I upgraded again mobo, cpu (Athlon 2200+) and RAM, after I spent little more than $60 for an entry level graphics card at least twice faster than the mid-range of 5 years before) and I also sometimes buy bigger HD's for little money.

I also upgrade optical units as soon as the newer tech writers get cheaper than 90-100 euros, $130-140,  so this time i bought another DVD-R, as next tech writers are still expensive.

My second and actual 17" CRT cost little more than $100 two yrs ago.

Now I'm planning to spend roughly $500, more than last time as this time I bought a new case, because the desktop one I bought in 2000 is very cramped and difficult to work in and it can only house little, noisy fans. I also bought big silent fans, dust filters, noise and vibrations absorbing stuff and this time I'll buy a midrange CPU (AMD as always, a 5000+, I think).

I'm quite a moderate retrogamer, I have quite old and not very new games, the newer I'm going to buy now is NWN, as first I haven't enough time to keep the pace of the release of games I know I could like, second I always wait for patches to be released and to public's and more than a few magazines judgment to promote a game before buying it, third prices get lower with time, so, after the expensive first PC, I always managed to buy hardware adequate for the games I was currently playing for little money.