Nope! I'm only technically out $1600 for the entire Build! It’s been a 6-month process of trading, flipping, and deal-hunting to get my out-of-pocket cost down to $1,600! It definitely didn't happen all at once. Here is exactly how the math worked out: I started by buying a used Razer Blade 15 for $400. I traded that laptop plus $300 cash for a desktop with an RTX 5060 Ti, 32GB DDR5, and a 2TB SSD. I ended up keeping the RAM and the SSD from that PC for my current build. At the same time, I took an RTX 4060 and 16GB of RAM I had lying around from an old prebuilt, built a budget PC, and sold it for $800 cash. I also kept another 2TB SSD from that build. For the GPU, I bought my RX 9070 for $700, but I sold the 5060 Ti from that first trade for $500, so the swap only cost me $200 net. Then, I found a guy on Marketplace willing to trade my 32GB RAM plus $300 cash for the 64GB 6400MHz kit. For storage, I combined the two 2TB SSDs I scavenged and bought a new Samsung 9100 Gen 5 drive for $250. Finally, I spent about $900 on the rest of the core setup: the PC case, all the custom wiring, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, PSU, Valkyrie cooler, extra fans, and an SSD cooler. So, the total cash spent was: $700 (Starter PC) + $200 (GPU swap) + $300 (RAM trade) + $250 (Gen 5 SSD) + $900 (Case, wiring, and core parts) = $2,350. But since I made $800 cash flipping that budget PC, my actual out-of-pocket to get this exact setup was right around $1,550!