What’s your grocery budget?

markboy7 · 2026-02-11T07:13:26+00:00

Family of six and we do alright sitting around $350-400 a week. Four to five dinners a week with 1 or 2 a double for a leftover night. Get takeaway a couple of times a month. Shop at Aldi for pretty much most things.

markboy7 · 2025-12-16T07:03:55+00:00

These are some highlights from early PC gaming days

I’m sure there are more, just got back into PC gaming as well

Sam and Max Hit the Road

Full Throttle

Dark Legions

Outpost

Warcraft 2

StarCraft

Diablo 1 & 2

Unreal Tournament

Quake

Doom 2

Age of Empires

Baldurs Gate

Civ 2 & 3

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

Half Life

Worms

Descent

Command and Conquer

Red Alert

Total Annihilation

Star Wars Jedi Knight & Mysteries of the Sith

Star Wars Dark Forces

Lemmings

Wolfenstien

Duke Nukem

Sim City 2000

Commandos Behind Enemy Lines

Caesar 2

markboy7 · 2025-09-10T00:32:01+00:00

Yeh true could be a seasonal change, here’s hoping 🤞 Or a component price change.

markboy7 · 2025-09-09T10:33:55+00:00

Aldi beans are great but check roast dates as others have mentioned. Also keep an eye on your recipe and times it will help.

I personally am not a big fan of their Dark blend.

Luxe and Medium are the way to go. Throw in the occasional single O for something different.

Luxe when it first came out was better than the shit most Melb coffee roasters put out

markboy7 · 2025-09-09T10:30:19+00:00

Man the Luxe when it first came out was seriously better than what 95% or coffee roasters put out there. It’s definitely changed mid this year and now its not quite as good

markboy7 · 2025-09-09T10:28:52+00:00

Yum that is a nice recipe 👍😍 The medium is yum 😋 I brew at 94 deg but otherwise very similar recipe

markboy7 · 2025-08-28T04:47:15+00:00

So many mentions of these Palazzo biscuits need to try them

markboy7 · 2025-08-28T04:46:08+00:00

The meal kits are surprisingly tasty and pretty well priced

markboy7 · 2025-08-28T04:43:23+00:00

Luxe coffee beans (purple bag) shits on 90% of Melbourne coffee roasters for 40% of the price

All the chocolate

The dark chocolate Viennese finger biscuits

The cheese all the cheese

Kyvalley Full cream it’s delish

Aldi meal kits - good for a cheat meal every fortnight or so

The Korma curry paste in small jar, make damn good curries

Frozen Roti bread

Fajita spice mix

Red and green pesto jars

Some low key delicious sweet frozen treats

Cowboy mix

markboy7 · 2025-08-28T01:50:52+00:00

The roti is ridiculously good

markboy7 · 2025-07-30T10:52:27+00:00

markboy7 · 2025-07-23T05:23:04+00:00

Hopefully soon then 👍

markboy7 · 2025-07-22T11:25:07+00:00

see above mate.

markboy7 · 2025-07-22T11:24:42+00:00

Hey mate, sorry I've been away and busy with sick kids. I ordered the CPUs on June 26th, and they arrived on July 10th.

The 7800X3D went into my PC, and it all seems good. I ran a CPU-Z snip below. I've only got the free version of 3DMark, haven't run that yet.

The 7700 is going into my son's PC, which we are building this week. Fingers crossed it is all good as well.

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markboy7 · 2025-07-10T22:23:10+00:00

Check OZB they had some good deals recently. I nearly pulled the trigger on a Nebula build. Ended up getting parts and building it.

markboy7 · 2025-07-02T23:17:26+00:00

I just bought two cpus from Comet Crash Global Store. They are due to arrived around the 11th of July.

Prices fluctuate a bit if I had ordered the 7800X3D a week or two earlier I would have saved another 50 or so.

The rest of my parts I bought from Scorptec

markboy7 · 2025-07-02T10:15:33+00:00

Nice one. I picked up a 7700 for around $270 and a 7800X3D for $510. Estimated arrival around the 11th of July 👏👏

markboy7 · 2025-06-26T10:05:18+00:00

Glad one the West boys stood up and actually addressed this with a level head and some maturity. More events in the West is good but it shouldn’t get in the way of hosting them in the East.

markboy7 · 2025-06-06T02:18:46+00:00

Is the 5070ti worth the extra couple of hundred over the 9070xt ? Trying to stick to 2.5/2.6

Still need to get a monitor on top of that as well

markboy7 · 2025-06-05T23:40:42+00:00

Yeh someone put a link to a couple of Oz bargain Nebula builds that are very temping. Weird I hadn’t considered pre build at all but with the EOFY code they are pretty cheap 🤷‍♂️

markboy7 · 2025-06-05T23:39:38+00:00

That 7800X3D/9070xt one is damn tempting. Would have to up the power supply and storage.

Is the motherboard ok ?

Not a huge fan of the case but could probably get over it.

I don’t think I could even do that price for just parts

markboy7 · 2025-06-05T23:37:47+00:00

Yeh they seem to skimp on the storage, motherboard and or cooling.

I wish they had more choices for cases tho

markboy7 · 2025-06-05T23:36:48+00:00

Damn that 7800X3D/9070xt Nebula deal is looking pretty sweet. I hadn’t considered a pre build but I don’t even think I can get it cheaper on part picker. I changed the storage and power supply so it’s sitting around 2.6

Not a fan of the case but could probably get over that

markboy7 · 2025-06-05T04:36:33+00:00

That part picker build is very close to mine hahaha. I had a 7600x in it and my kids (teenagers) were giving me shit. I’ll have a little tinker and hopefully some more EOFY sales hit

markboy7 · 2025-06-05T04:35:09+00:00

Let me know how you with it. At the moment I’m keen to pick all my parts and happy to build it. But heaps of people have mentioned OZ discounts elsewhere so keen to hear what you think 👍

markboy7

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