How Much Would You Spend On a Gaming PC? (Poll)

I Would Spend Top Dollar For A Good PC...if i had the money.

For 650 I built an awesome rig.

It was a decision between an awesome gaming PC or a nice used blow-up doll.

I scored (built) my PC for under $1,000. Plus she had way too many miles on her! :shock:

I bought the Crysis rig for giggles, but I'd never go over $800 with my current income.

factoring in the monitor, it would go over $1,000. But I like to run games Very High settings.

I spent $1100.

I just dropped abot $1500 on a new build. Its primarily used for graphics design and video editing though.

Specs: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Quad Core 3.00GHz, Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 64 bit, 8Gb. Corsair RAM with Fans, Seagate 1Tb Hard Drive, Lite-On Blu-Ray/DVD/CDwriter,ASUS Deluxe/Mempipe mobo. I haven's got my 22" monitor in yet and my 3 9800GT graphics cards.

wow, someone chose $5,000K+ in the poll. That thing better vacuum the house, do the dishes,and pleasure me in more than just the gaming sense for that much money.

$1 - 1.5K is quite enough already.

I would spend $1500 on the actual comp and another $500 on speakers, keyboard, mouse, and nice monitor.

For a brand new rig?

That happens once every 4 years for me - and I just bought mine last month. An Alienware Core i7, which I love. I'll spend as much as $2,500. Then, every 18 months, I'll upgrade the GPU.

I just dropped 1300 and I plan on dropping another 400 or so into it.

my most recent build cost about £450, which is about $650 at the moment

but I already had the monitor, hard drive, sound card, CPU cooler... that all adds up to an extra £250, so my current setup is worth about £700, which is $1,000.

if I had the money, there would have been nothing to stop me going for a £2,000+ Core i7 monster.

$1000 at most. Typically, I reuse a LOT of parts from older computers. Then every year or so I upgrade a part of the machine for about $300.

For 650 I built an awesome rig.

Baranga

My last PC cost me $1,300 to build. When I build my next one, I am setting my spending limit at around $2,000.

I'll probably end up spending 2500 on my new pc, It's worth the extra money.

1500$ - 2000$

Although it is easy to build a good comp for 700$,etc...

I spend about $2000 on my rig i put together last year, but
I needed a top of the line soundcard (for music editing/recording) and i spent a little extra on a nice widescreen HD monitor. So would have been around 1200$ i spent on the PC, but then i splurged on Soundcard and Monitor.

I would choose $5000 if I had enough money in the future. If I get a good job, I will be buying new parts every week :P

I spent $1200 on my last PC and I regret spending so much. It's a great computer but if I had been smart I could have shaved a few dollars here and there. These days, I wouldn't pay more than $800 considering how cheap hardware components are. http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3552&p=3 That's a great PC (DDR2 variant) that you can build for under $800 (the base price is higher since it includes display, speakers, keyboard, mouse, and OS). If you substitute the GPU for a 4770 (just as powerful but only $100), the 1TB HDD for a 640GB one ($60), and the Bluray drive for a regular optical drive ($20) you can save even more money.

What can I get for.... 5 dollars and 53 cents?

a $1500 computer runs games just fine, spending more than that is just being wasteful

What can I get for.... 5 dollars and 53 cents?

lenson

Part of an Nvidia keychain?

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For 650 I built an awesome rig.

bluezy

Specs please. I would like to kow, because i think i will be getting a gaming PC his year

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For 650 I built an awesome rig.

Jekken6

Specs please. I would like to kow, because i think i will be getting a gaming PC his year

If you live in the US I can recommend you some parts you could get for $650. Do you plan on getting a pre-built or assembling it yourself (it's not hard)?

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[QUOTE="bluezy"] Mine was about the same price. It's a lovely machine.BlueBirdTS

Specs please. I would like to kow, because i think i will be getting a gaming PC his year

If you live in the US I can recommend you some parts you could get for $650. Do you plan on getting a pre-built or assembling it yourself (it's not hard)?

I live in Australia. I plan on getting it pre-built, since i don't have experience with that kind of stuff.

The rig i plan on getting is at the bottom of the linked page: http://www.victoriancomputers.com.au/Desktop_System.php

payed 1200 for mine

500-1100 Is all you need to spend for a great top of the system in my opinionzero9167

Between $2000-$2500 when it is time to buy a new gaming PC.Jd1680a

The PC is an intrigal part of my lifestyle .. I would never want to under invest in it .. gaming would be a huge key component of its use, but audio/video editing and working online would be equally as important.

I would feel comfortable commiting up to $2500.00 for an updated gaming rig w/all the fixin's.

#600 at most.

I would spend $5000+ on a rig if I had the money, I do spend around $2000 on a rig if it's built from scratch.

The PC is an intrigal part of my lifestyle .. I would never want to under invest in it .. gaming would be a huge key component of its use, but audio/video editing and working online would be equally as important.

I would feel comfortable commiting up to $2500.00 for an updated gaming rig w/all the fixin's.

artistry_

A $1000 PC can do virtually everything a $2500 PC can do, only slightly slower. I think you're better off getting a budget PC and upgrading it on a regular basis than trying to futureproof it.

I voted for $3,000 - $5,000.

Figure adjust for price increases. I spent $3,000 on the one I have currently.

I think $800 is the perfect amount. You get top of the line products without breaking the bank.coolmonkeykid

Agreed. Throughout the rest of the year we should see prices go down even further as DDR3 RAM reaches price parity with DDR2 RAM, new budget GPU options like the Radeon 4770 are released, and Intel's LGA 1366 motherboards become more affordable. There are also SSD's to look forward to, which have been dropping in price rapidly.

anything more than $750 and you're just postponing how far out you need to replace/upgrade it

I think $800 is the perfect amount. You get top of the line products without breaking the bank.coolmonkeykid

Depends on what you call top of the line. I reserve a category of "bleeding edge" which is the very best stuff. The $1000 CPUs, the $1200 SLI/Cross Fire, the Blu Ray, and what not.

At least $1,000 or a little above