Id guess i spend around $750 to $1000us a year..
i end up with enough parts to have backups for most components..(i always run short on good harddives..)
Ive actually got 6 pc's in use, but the 6th pc's parts were originally going to be pitched.
its a: tyan tsunami w/p3 600 CuMine & 128mgRAM, voodoo3 2000pci, 24x cdrom, hdd etc. win98se
the rest are in my sig.. typically ill get a new part and hand down the old one..
the biggest single expense over the last 12 months was new liscenses for XP..
I just dropped $1200 on a new system (upgrading from a P4 1.6), but I normally don't spend all THAT much because I'm only 14 and money is hard to come by.
I just downgraded to 512 RAM and sold my Xbox giving me enough money to build the custom watercooling setup that I want, so I'll probably spend another $300 or so on that.
I'd say I normally spend $500 a year on average. The graphics card usually conributes most of this, and maybe a new HD or so.
bit and pecies here and there
ie today i moved some gear into some new caes i got from work free (yehe)
so i will make a server so i can fiddle around with isa/exchange/sharepoint/etc instead of my server at work
so ill use all my old hdd about 5 (20x3 30 40) when i get a 200jigabyte hdd
and ill use any left over to make afaster router for my internet
but the $%^^$$ ps2 keyboard wont work %^&*&^%$
so ill "borrow" a old compaq from work and use parts to make somthing
well, i'm gonna spend prolly a lil less than $2500 on an absolutely awesome pc! (gonna build it myself! duh!)
i dont have time for ANYTHING now that i have a job, so once i can gain enough money for this, i'm gonna quit. (unless i become assisten manager :D )
i can see myself spending around $500 for the first 1 or 2 years, and then prolly around $1000 or more the 3rd year, and then again $500 1 or 2 years, and then again $1000 and so on and so on....
HUGE GAMER! (with a complete crap *** system at the moment)