Why spend so much money on a computer?

Ok i was just wondering why do people spend such a huge amount of money on computer parts when a $1000 rig will do just fine. My rig i built cost me only $850 and i can run every game on the market with no slow down and on high graphics. The only exception ofcourse is crysis where i run 35fps at High Graphics which is fine by me. But seriously is the extra money really worth the slight performance game. I mean what are you possible playing that requires a $1000 processor, 8 Gigs of Ram, like 5 harddrives, 2 Graphic cards, and so on.

Sorry to make a rant thread, but i have really always wondered why people spend so much money on a rig. I mean it all seems like such overkill to me.

From a strictly financially based view, yes, your point makes. There is also the satisfaction of building your own customized machine, no matter how overkill it may be. The price justifies self satisfaction, in ways that may be beyond just performance. This is the same reason we buy sports cars and SUVs, when we may not need all that power. It may give us a sense of self pride, or reflect a higher social standing.

It essence, for the same reason we buy expensive things that aren't computers that we don't necessarily need. Economics has always been like this and always will be as long as human nature remains the same.

It's like buying a ferrari, they make love to it.... XD

No serious it just like buying a expencive sports car, people know they newer/rarely will make use of all what te sportscar/PC is capable of, but it gives them a selfsatisfaction, and they can brag about it... ...

-I got a Ferrari what are you runnig?

You clean them, you take them for a testdrive, let our frend's come along for a spin, know evry detail about the specs and how to service.

I totally agree that many people get all nut's about crysis, yes that is a beutyfull game but it's still beutifull at high, a decent midend card will run all games but crysis maxed out or atleast near maxed out, and the difference is lot's of money to get the best of crysis, but again it's about satisfaction not about the performance needed, some people can afford a italian sportscar, some people can afford a expencive PC.

If you can afford it, why not? That's to say if you aren't having to sacrifice in other significant areas of your life, just in order to get the best performing hardware. Personally I agree with you though. Hardware becomes obsolete and plummets in price so quickly, it's hardly worth it to go all out unless you can afford to upgrade every generation of product.

Going all out on a nice car like a Ferrari, at least you know it's going to retain a large portion of its value, maybe even increase its worth. And it won't have any trouble handling the newest roads on the highest settings after a year.

oof topic ferraris are horrible track cars on the upside a total worked mitubish lancer will basically put it to shame on any circut any givin time ;) Neo_revolution7

so true on top gear, the lamob could pull way from the evo, and then the evo forced the lambo to spin :lol: and with the evo you get a useful car.

It's like buying a ferrari, they make love to it.... XD

No serious it just like buying a expencive sports car, people know they newer/rarely will make use of all what te sportscar/PC is capable of, but it gives them a selfsatisfaction, and they can brag about it... ...

-I got a Ferrari what are you runnig?

You clean them, you take them for a testdrive, let our frend's come along for a spin, know evry detail about the specs and how to service.

I totally agree that many people get all nut's about crysis, yes that is a beutyfull game but it's still beutifull at high, a decent midend card will run all games but crysis maxed out or atleast near maxed out, and the difference is lot's of money to get the best of crysis, but again it's about satisfaction not about the performance needed, some people can afford a italian sportscar, some people can afford a expencive PC.

swehunt

Wait other people don't make love to there computers lol

I think it's because we're all suckers for carefully graded pricing: "Oh look, for only $40 more I can have double the speed. But wait, another $10 and I get the extreme edition! But that brings me up to the basic high-end model... Well, I don't want the second best product in the world..." etc.

Before we know it, we've made a huge investment and are hooked into seeing it never falls to being merely (God forbid) average, so we keep updating. We're all suckers.

I understand the sentiments of the original poster. However I do agree with the general consensus that the main reason is to satisfy their own ego. Besides, if you had money to burn you'd probably do the same (c'mon admit it), I know I would.

1000 dollars is over kill.

spend 1000 on your first build.

save Mouse/Keyboard/Drives/Case and maybe PSU for next build

then spend less on mobo/gpu/cpu

I've been building computers since I was little. It's pretty much a hobby for me, more than anything else. But I enjoy pushing the limits of the hardware, seeing how well new products run. And yeah, to see how awesome I can make Crysis look... :D

My computer's set for awhile, though. It won't need upgrading for another year or two, I imagine.

im going to go with the answer:

"its fun"

Like these guys said, self-satisfaction. I'm such a perfectionist so it's either all, or nothing. If you're going to do it, do it all the way. I dont want my PC being all gimp.Elann2008

But you dont have a super expensive rig,,,,your is pretty budget compared to a lot of people.

People need to stop being such hypacrites, the same things go through a woman's mind when she spends £20,000 to redecorate the house and the same goess to the 20 year old that spends £10,000 tuning and moding his car.

Hobbies... everyone has them if they have the money to invest into something they love there's nothing wrong with that at all.

People need to stop being such hypacrites, the same things go through a woman's mind when she spends £20,000 to redecorate the house and the same goess to the 20 year old that spends £10,000 tuning and moding his car.

Hobbies... everyone has them if they have the money to invest into something they love there's nothing wrong with that at all.

sadikovic

People need to stop being such hypacrites, the same things go through a woman's mind when she spends £20,000 to redecorate the house and the same goess to the 20 year old that spends £10,000 tuning and moding his car.

Hobbies... everyone has them if they have the money to invest into something they love there's nothing wrong with that at all.

sadikovic

Thing is a PC will loose ALL of it's value after about 2-3years, home decoration, furniture, car's will just decreese it's value but still be wanted.

A very expencive car will hold it's value a loong time, a very expencive PC will be outdated after 2 years.

[QUOTE="sadikovic"]

People need to stop being such hypacrites, the same things go through a woman's mind when she spends £20,000 to redecorate the house and the same goess to the 20 year old that spends £10,000 tuning and moding his car.

Hobbies... everyone has them if they have the money to invest into something they love there's nothing wrong with that at all.

swehunt

Thing is a PC will loose ALL of it's value after about 2-3years, home decoration, furniture, car's will just decreese it's value but still be wanted.

A very expencive car will hold it's value a loong time, a very expencive PC will be outdated after 2 years.

Nevertheless its still a hobby and people are intitled to some sort of indulgement every once and a while.

If i had the money then i guess i would invest alot in my pc, i like having high end kit. YYour budget relies on how much you earn and what percentage of your earnings you want to invest in it, if you're making alot and like having top end hardware then you buy the best.

It's also alot more fun building a top of the line rig than a low end standard pc.

This car example is good one.. Anyways, when you say that your rig cost 850$ and you can paly games all high, first of all what kind of resolution you are gaming one and are you MAXing out them with very good fps ??

But im gonna agree with you, that to acertian point (varies from person to another) you will just starting your money on better hardware that wont benifit you at all, more like having SLI while you have 17'' screen (1280x1024)SearchMaster

Well I am playing on a 21" wide screen LCD Monitor at 1600x1050 and to be fair i dont have i think it anti laysing on and usually one maybe two of settings might not be on Ultra instead high because they are greyed out.Also most of my games will run at 60fps and they will be capped off ithink because i have vsinc on, but it seems when i turn it off i have huge fluxuations in fps so i would rather keep it on and have a constant 60.

Bigger e-penis.jmnderson69

haha e-penis

[QUOTE="sadikovic"]

People need to stop being such hypacrites, the same things go through a woman's mind when she spends £20,000 to redecorate the house and the same goess to the 20 year old that spends £10,000 tuning and moding his car.

Hobbies... everyone has them if they have the money to invest into something they love there's nothing wrong with that at all.

swehunt

Thing is a PC will loose ALL of it's value after about 2-3years, home decoration, furniture, car's will just decreese it's value but still be wanted.

A very expencive car will hold it's value a loong time, a very expencive PC will be outdated after 2 years.

What about the people who "trick" out there car, and end up spending hundereds to thousands of dollars. Then if they wreck the car loose all that extra money they put into it because the blue book value does not take into consideration all that crap.

Plus a super expensive PC cost a few thousands, while cars can easily cost tens of thousands. Sounds like comparing apples to oranges to me.

How much do you pay for cloths? No more than $5 a shirt and $15 for a pair of jeans right, I mean why pay more than the minimum.

[QUOTE="swehunt"][QUOTE="sadikovic"]

People need to stop being such hypacrites, the same things go through a woman's mind when she spends £20,000 to redecorate the house and the same goess to the 20 year old that spends £10,000 tuning and moding his car.

Hobbies... everyone has them if they have the money to invest into something they love there's nothing wrong with that at all.

opamando

Thing is a PC will loose ALL of it's value after about 2-3years, home decoration, furniture, car's will just decreese it's value but still be wanted.

A very expencive car will hold it's value a loong time, a very expencive PC will be outdated after 2 years.

What about the people who "trick" out there car, and end up spending hundereds to thousands of dollars. Then if they wreck the car loose all that extra money they put into it because the blue book value does not take into consideration all that crap.

Plus a super expensive PC cost a few thousands, while cars can easily cost tens of thousands. Sounds like comparing apples to oranges to me.

How much do you pay for cloths? No more than $5 a shirt and $15 for a pair of jeans right, I mean why pay more than the minimum.

First out is the thing about "trick", you actually think this phenomen is just with cars or car-dealing? :roll: the same can be applyed related to PC hardware.

You say you cant compare a PC to cars, and speak about comparing apple to oranges, then yourself compare a PC to a shirt.?

com'on... ;) If you must know i did spend alot on chloathing before, now i don't care that much, my wardrobe is still filled with premium shirt's, jeans, pullover, caps, underwear, premium brand all over, but i use whatever i want, and i don't care if it's the best brand no more. As long as the clothing look is just as sharp as the expencive brand i'd go cheap.

When you buy cloathing you buy image, something to extend your charractor, PC hardware is totaly diffren't, it's not about streanghen your image it's more to have an image at all on the webb.

uber PC get no respect from me, cool that someone can afford that and im not jelaus, the one paying a load of cash just to play CS make them sealf funny, better to spend on somthing better like a new TV, better car, nicer furniture or anythig else, this is just my input, im not saying anyone spending a major load of cash is stupid, but i am saying for me there are better thing to spend them on cos crysis will not make me more happy on very high.

First out is the thing about "trick", you actually think this phenomen is just with cars or car-dealing? :roll: the same can be applyed related to PC hardware. Yes, but you are not going to wreck your PC and only get $7500 back when you paid $8000 for the car, and then $1000-7000 on "tricking" it out. That is the point, of course people add extra crap to their PC, but it would not be wasted in the way I am talking about :roll:

You say you cant compare a PC to cars, and speak about comparing apple to oranges, then yourself compare a PC to a shirt.? I was just trying to show how stupid it is, and I see you agree.

com'on... ;) If you must know i did spend alot on chloathing before, now i don't care that much, my wardrobe is still filled with premium shirt's, jeans, pullover, caps, underwear, premium brand all over, but i use whatever i want, and i don't care if it's the best brand no more. As long as the clothing look is just as sharp as the expencive brand i'd go cheap. Why waste all that money on those cloths then, I mean you can get all the t-shirts and jeans from Wal-mart and Family dollar for fractions of what that stuff costs, you don't NEED anything more. Se how dumb that sounds.

When you buy cloathing you buy image, something to extend your charractor, PC hardware is totaly diffren't, it's not about streanghen your image it's more to have an image at all on the webb. Image? OK, so you buy into all that crap, LOL. You are you no matter what you wear. I buy cloths I want because I want them, same with PC stuff. I don't give two shakes as to what people perceive my "image" as, LOL

uber PC get no respect from me, cool that someone can afford that and im not jelaus, the one paying a load of cash just to play CS make them sealf funny, better to spend on somthing better like a new TV, better car, nicer furniture or anythig else, this is just my input, im not saying anyone spending a major load of cash is stupid, but i am saying for me there are better thing to spend them on cos crysis will not make me more happy on very high. Too bad we all can't be like you. I mean I would rather people get the right image of me by my cloths and my car, then actually enjoying my PC when I get home, WOW what a life.

swehunt

I think we agree on the to each his own motto, but we also see things differently, that OK. My brother spends tons of money on his car, 350Z, and uses some crappy laptop for his PC needs. I drive my nice old clunker, that I hardly ever wash LOL, and waste my money on my PC.

The point I was trying to makes, is that unless you are the type of person that never wastes any extra money on anything, then you have no room to criticize someone about wasting money in their own way.