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"eat toast!"
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on 24/06/2009 at 10:39:59PM
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This is just tearing me apart. I want to build a new pc and i have all the parts more or less in mind and all i have to do is pay for it. I easily the amount of money needed.
But the problem is this: is my desire for a new pc a need or a want?
I'm not entirely sure whats causing this anxiety or concern. Maybe is how i was raised up. Being careful with cash and all (hell, i always go cheap where possible. Tesco value this, iceland that, get someone else to buy it, GADs, etc) so maybe spending 1200 on a new pc is perhaps a big step for me.
Half of me sees this a worth while investment, my computer is showing its age and would be best to relegate it into a test role to practice my IT skills, setting up a network to practice etc and remain competitive and qualified in my career in IT. But on the other hand, why would i need to do that when it still plays most of the back catalogue ok? Additionally, couldn't i just use them both as a test server and gaming rig at the same time without buying a new one? Its not terribly out of date so why would i need it?
Oh dilema dilema.
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Nin
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on 24/06/2009 at 11:47:24PM
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That post could have been stolen from my brain, except I go through this kind of indecision with pretty much every sodding thing I do.
I say find a balance. You'll eventually need a new computer but whether you need to spend that much on it is another matter. Can you make the purchase without feeling guilty? Are there other things you need the money for? Is it really worth that much?
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pb
"Shoryuken!"
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on 25/06/2009 at 1:46:22PM
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My computer is going to be slowly being upgraded bit by bit. I've got a bigger PSU now so that means I can fit a new Graphics card. However, the motherboard is a bit basic and I've got the max 3GB of memory.
But then I think, am I likely to want it for anything that requires a lot of power? I've got my consoles for gaming anyway and everything else is fine. But still I feel like I need to have something resembling a modern PC that could, if I wanted, play games. I can't even get Battlefield Heroes working on this one.
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spoonbeast
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on 25/06/2009 at 6:41:19PM
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Nin wrote:
> That post could have been stolen from my brain, except I go
> through this kind of indecision with pretty much every sodding
> thing I do.
> I say find a balance. You'll eventually need a new computer but
> whether you need to spend that much on it is another matter. Can
> you make the purchase without feeling guilty? Are there other
> things you need the money for? Is it really worth that much?
tell me about it. I had another bout of anxiety. I crave wine guns/ gummi bears and its been so long since i had eaten them. But that stuff is so unhealthy, will wreck my teeth and costs 1 quid a bag!
In the end i had to suppress that desire by chewing my arm and the back of my hand.
Yesterday i think i had a bout of melachonley (or however you spells it) and i think it still lingers.
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Nin
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on 25/06/2009 at 10:59:34PM
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spoonbeast wrote:
> tell me about it. I had another bout of anxiety. I crave wine
> guns/ gummi bears and its been so long since i had eaten them.
> But that stuff is so unhealthy, will wreck my teeth and costs 1
> quid a bag!
Uh-huh. I think sometimes you just have to say "F**k it" and try not to think too much. I went out today (first time in 10 days) and actually managed to buy something for the first time in about 3 months. I've become ridiculously locked down recently.
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spoonbeast
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on 27/06/2009 at 10:42:18PM
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I live in a family that looks after their money and my mother was especially tight with cash. I guess i was her nemesis as a kid a si kept pestering her for everything and the few tims she buckled it encouraged me to ask for more.
But after many years maybe when i was in junior school things changed. Me and my brothers had to be democratic on what we wanted. My mum would buy only one game for christmas and we all had to agree that we wanted it. It worked surprisingly well, we simply turned on each other supressing each other like hell, we had to argue our case for the games we wanted to buy. Even after my mum passed away we still did it. We got little pocket money (only on birthdays or christmas did we get cash) so we had to be democratic about what to get. No full price games, get your stuff for 20quid or less.
I think its broken my impulsive side. Hell concerning the wine gum situation i walked into tesco remembering all the items i wanted to buy today. Then i walked past a buy one get one free offer for wine gums! 64p a bag!
But guess what? My conscience kicks in and i stand there for a good few minuates before forcing myself to walk away. By the time i got back home i realised i've forgotten to buy half of the items i wanted for dinner for the following weeks.
This sucks. My boss was right. I don't even have the balls to buy my new pc.
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Nin
"Monochromatic"
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on 28/06/2009 at 12:20:37AM
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spoonbeast wrote:
> I live in a family that looks after their money and my mother was
> especially tight with cash. I guess i was her nemesis as a kid a
> si kept pestering her for everything and the few tims she buckled
> it encouraged me to ask for more.
Same to an extent, although I've never been very demanding and even more so these days. I tend to get quite annoyed if people buy things for me. I hate wasting money, even if it's not mine.
> I think its broken my impulsive side. Hell concerning the wine
> gum situation i walked into tesco remembering all the items i
> wanted to buy today. Then i walked past a buy one get one free
> offer for wine gums! 64p a bag!
I still have an impulsive but I have to be relaxed and it tends to get me into trouble anyway. But yeah otherwise the same, I've got an ever growing mental list of things that I'd like to buy and that I check out everytime I'm in town.
> But guess what? My conscience kicks in and i stand there for a
> good few minutes before forcing myself to walk away.
> This sucks. My boss was right. I don't even have the balls to
> buy my new pc.
I'd call it anxiety, probably from insecurity. If you've grown up in a house with no money, I'd imagine you're more conscious of making sure you don't end up in the same position as your parents. £1200 for a new pc would seem like quite a guilty luxury to the child that had to share everything.
As for me, it's partly the same but I've also got control issues stemming from illness taking my life away from me and from a ridiculously obsessive need to please my family. What's that's left me with is an inability to do anything for myself, leading to borderline personality disorder where anything I do has to be separated into good or bad, black or white, science vs romance etc. That's the way I have to live, otherwise you'd likely find me standing by the wine gum stand with you, unable to move.
God bless therapy ;)
(The book I bought, £8 for One Hundred Years of Solitude. I'm still p**sed I bought it and probably will be until I can file it into black or white)
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pb
"Shoryuken!"
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on 01/07/2009 at 8:16:39AM
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I reckon that the answer is to do it in bits.
Set yourself a goal every week/month/whenever and if you achieve that goal then buy a bit of the PC you need. Start with case/motherboard and work your way towards getting the full PC.
This also menas that you might find yourself saving money as parts become cheaper in no time, or getting a better graphics card etc by the time you get around to getting that part.
If you put the parts in bit by bit as well then it will take less time overall to build. It will seem all the better once you put it all together too.
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McLong
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on 01/07/2009 at 9:53:34AM
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I haven't read the whole thread, so forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but I think the answer is in the thread title. Desire.
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Warhunt
"Life int a DPS race"
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on 01/07/2009 at 2:33:25PM
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McLong wrote:
> I haven't read the whole thread, so forgive me if this has
> already been mentioned, but I think the answer is in the thread
> title. Desire.
Oooh 'ark at him :P
Still a valid point though.
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Dragonlance
"Bordo della verita"
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on 01/07/2009 at 7:28:35PM
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If you have £1200 ear-marked for your future PC, then consider the following at pcspecialist.co.uk - all you will ever need in the future.....and all for £799.00......check out the Apollo GTS, unless that is, you want to spend £1200 building it yourself rather than letting someone else build it for you for £799. You can even change each component if you wish.....only a thought :-)
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spoonbeast
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on 01/07/2009 at 10:32:56PM
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I'll be pretty much building my new pc. So yeah, its going to be cheaper and better. I've got plans to buy the parts in a few weeks time. Maybe around the 18th.
The plan is probably to have it delivered to work, build it there, get it shipped back to my place to finish off the installation of any software that i don't complete. Thats assuming my boss doesn't mind.
Incidently, it would cost under 1000 for my new pc, but i've got to buy a replacement monitor (my current one is a crt and its quite old maybe at least 10 years) and OS thats killing it currently. But since i've got over 10k in the bank, it should be ok i guess. But damn thats a massive hole in my bank account.
I think i'll have to cut back on eating. Not that i spend more then 5 quid a week anyway.
Time to starve over the weekend or something.
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McLong
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on 02/07/2009 at 10:14:54AM
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spoonbeast wrote:
> currently. But since i've got over 10k in the bank, it should be
> ok i guess. But damn thats a massive hole in my bank account.
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Warhunt
"Life int a DPS race"
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on 02/07/2009 at 3:16:00PM
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Pff when men boast about their bank accounts....... :P
Maybe we should start charging him for his GAD's mwahaha
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