PC Gaming cost

[Guest]

How much did you guys initially spend on your gaming pc? How often do you upgrade components?
Thanks!!

 

[grana92]

It's a very hard question to answer.. It depends on the country, time, store etc.. In example, all PC components are 20-30% more expensive in Croatia (my country) than in the US. And also a good example is that the prices of RAM have jumped for around 25% last week compared to the last 4-6 months..

 

[hdmark]

i think im up to $1850 including the monitor i just bought. i started from scratch about a year and a half ago and have been upgrading non stop until a month ago when i finally got it where i wanted it to be

but ive seen people spend way less and have better builds (i screwed up a few times along the way). and ive seen people spend way more and have worse builds.

i think to get a BASE gaming rig to most gamers standards, youre looking at the 600$ range including monitor/keyboard/mouse/windows. but you can spend upwards of 20,000$ if you really want

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

If you look at my PC as everything, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers and furniture. I make an upgrade about every year. I'd average 100 dollars.

The PC itself is about 5 years old (i7 2700k). It's had about 3 GPU upgrades. 2 power supply upgrades.

 

[muddyparrot]

£1300 for the specs in my sig, with a 24 inch 1080p monitor, that was 2 years ago though, haven't needed to upgrade anything except changing to 16gb of ram

 

[neblogai]

For midrange systems- $900 in 1996, CPU+MB+RAM+GPU upgrade for ~$500 every 4 years or so. In the last 10 years CPU advancement slowed down a lot, so they can last a lot longer. However 'midrange' or 'mainstream' segment for graphic cards that was $100-$150 is now $170-$400.

 

[ss202sl]

beyond the hardware is the software(games). I am still running games that were created a decade ago. Try this with your PS4 -doesn't always work. Most people have as much(or more) invested in games and software as they do the system itself.

 

[Joyasiddika]

IMO $1,700-$1,800 for the tower.

I7 $320+/-

$150-$200 mobo

Low Cas, voltage and high speed RAM $130+ 16GB

SSD 512GB $300+

Windows $100

Case $80-130

Cooler $80-100

PSU 850+ watt $140-$200

GPU 970 OC'ed $350+

Cheap ($500), decent ($1,000), good ($1,500), fast ($2,000), extreme ($2,500+).