Question to you youngsters, how did you pay for your rig?

Motoxrdude said:
Some people are good at being a smartass. Why don't you leave it up to the smartasses?

So being competitive is a bad thing???


My thoughts exactly.


Yuep, because I am totally jealous of a high school drop out :rolleyes: hahah
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I had to drop out due to medical reasons, though I'm fine now. I'll have to go get my diploma, or GED.

It sucks, really. But i have a job and I'm not sitting on my ass all day :P
 
I worked during the summer. 1 month of 40 hour work week at $10/hr got me a bit over $1000 after taxes. I also worked some weekend jobs and mow lawns and stuff like that. I bought my PC with saved allowance + birthday/holiday money. My college laptop came from my paycheck from work.
 
ThatGuy16 said:
I had to drop out due to medical reasons, though I'm fine now. I'll have to go get my diploma, or GED.

It sucks, really. But i have a job and I'm not sitting on my ass all day :P
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So, let me get this straight. You where unable to go to school for 6-7 hours a day, but able to work 67 hours a week? Right...... ;)
 
Motoxrdude said:
So, let me get this straight. You where unable to go to school for 6-7 hours a day, but able to work 67 hours a week? Right...... ;)
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I have the problem under control now. At the time, i had too much going on, i missed too many days of school, and couldn't make it all up because of it.

You have me confused with tuffie, i think.. i don't work 67 hours a week. I get 45 hours.
 
ThatGuy16 said:
I have the problem under control now. At the time, i had too much going on, i missed too many days of school, and couldn't make it all up because of it.

You have me confused with tuffie, i think.. i don't work 67 hours a week. I get 45 hours.
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O, whoopsy daisy. Sorry, didn't mean to direct that at you. My bad :P.
 
smoothjk said:
I notice a lot of people on these forums are 18 or younger. Now, I realize that you don't have bills to pay and stuff like that, but how do you guys afford some of those insane setups like high-end quads with pricey GPUs? I'm genuinely curious.
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21 now but when I was 15-16 I uploaded on megaupload/megarotic.

I use to pull about 100-200k points a month on both every month before they fixed the point system.

So that was 200-400 bucks a month.

I never liked to borrow money from my folks and that allowed me to not get a job and pay for my own PC stuff.
 
Motoxrdude said:
Some people are good at being a smartass. Why don't you leave it up to the smartasses?
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I did leave it up to the smartasses. I would be included in this group and you would not ;) Just for the simple fact that you would be nothing to do with s-m-a-r-t.

Keep diggin' that hole!

So being competitive is a bad thing???
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Haha...Only in sports and only when you don't think you are god's gift to the earth.

Yuep, because I am totally jealous of a high school drop out :rolleyes: hahah
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California attitude. Overly competitive. And another good way to be a complete ass. That's a really stuck-up thing to say.
 
I've been the cheapest son of a bitch possible ever since I was born, next rig/upgrade will probably require an upgrade
 
/\E said:
I did leave it up to the smartasses. I would be included in this group and you would not ;) Just for the simple fact that you would be nothing to do with s-m-a-r-t.

Keep diggin' that hole!



Haha...Only in sports and only when you don't think you are god's gift to the earth.



California attitude. Overly competitive. And another good way to be a complete ass. That's a really stuck-up thing to say.
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Haha, you know those "come backs" that are so freakin dumb that it's not insulting, just kinda funny? Yeah, your comment made me "lol" hahaha.

"I would be included in this group, and you would not"
Ouch! I just got burned! lol :P:P:P
 
scooter said:
I built a machine and gave it to my parents as an anniversary gift.

But I according to what I have been told by some of the youngin's here I am CF senior citizen..:( so I guess I buy stuff for the folks now...

Man, I wish I was a teenager still!
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ya me to scooter :D
 
I am 18 and pay for pretty much everything that isn't needed. Like-
my pc, my car, car insurance, ps3 etc...

Half of all my paychecks go to savings for college, the rest I use to buy/ pay for stuff.

Get the money from working and selling stuff for people on ebay.
 
Mine was budgeted, totals like $600 with after-build stuff, but in the summer i worked 40 hrs at my job, and finished 3 houses ($800 total for the 3)... with school i cut back to about 20-25 hours, but i also tutor for some money, and sell nude pictures of myself to NAMBLA.
 
I built my first PC at age 16ish, it was a CeleronA 300 Slot 1, Asus 440bx mobo, 64 or maybe 128megs of RAM. 16meg TNT Nvidia card - agp, 11 gigs of hd space, optical drive. Windows 98 had just came out, or maybe it wasn't out yet and I was still running 95...oh well

I think I built the whole thing for around $450, because back then you could actually buy the computer parts individually and get them real cheap.

I worked about 20 hours a week while in high school and then worked 35hours a week while in college and went to school full time. I went from school on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 7am till about 10 to 11pm at night and took a saturday day class every now and then.

Never took a computer class in my life, period, and now I am a system administrator as my job. Go figure.
 
Motoxrdude said:
Haha, you know those "come backs" that are so freakin dumb that it's not insulting, just kinda funny? Yeah, your comment made me "lol" hahaha.

"I would be included in this group, and you would not"
Ouch! I just got burned! lol :P:P:P
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Further continuation of of your behavior as a stuck-up Cali jerk with nothing to do but put others where he himself has not been. But, the jerk would totally deny this...
 
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