Be honest.. how much did you pay for your PC rig?

For the tower and everything inside of it? ~$900. With all accessories, probably about $1,200.

But I've saved loads of money in the end, so I don't really care about the price of my PC.

The key is to be single with no kids, I converted the other two bedrooms into a game room and a reading room/study.

Family? lol that's just money not spent on me or my friends.

Might change my mind one day but I'm 30 already, probably not...

$1000+ over the course of 3 years. if you know how to build your own $hit you don't want to by the cheap $hit. Could of built with a $500 budget if I wanted to. As I always tell folks who ask me how much to build a good computer.....its more like how much you willing to spend and what parts you want to prioritize over the other.

I'm in the same boat, she won't play FPS which is typical from 80% of the girls I've dated. Fortunately, I'll have women and non FPS friends go in the Singstar/Rockband 3/Streetfighter/Tekken room when others are playing Starcrfaft LAN or Halo LAN, lol.

I paid $2800 a year and a half ago. That was for a GTX 690, 3770K i7, 1440p monitor 16 gigs of RAM and a UP7 motherboard. I just bought a new desk and am getting ready to start my new build. I am planning a $6000 build. I want to break into the 3D Mark Hall of Fame. I am waiting for DDR 4 and the new Nvidia line. Once that's built I will move my current PC to my 70" 1080p TV next to my consoles.

That's very successful strategy as well, lol.

$500. It has one of the fastest intel haswell cpu but a crap GPU since I didn't want it to generate much heat nor have a huge ass case. I only use it as a console emulator since PC games are ass but even with the weak gpu it has I could easily play something like Titanfall no problem if I wanted but meh.

$1K about a year and a half ago.

$1200

If you're going all out with the new rig are you getting a 4K moniter? I'd assume so right?

shit. sounds pretty ambitious.

I'm not tech savvy enough to make my own computer so I just bought a premade one. i5, 8GB of RAM and a GTX 760 for $850. Pretty sure I got screwed somewhere but at least I can play most games on high now instead of the low settings on my old computer.

850 isn't too bad for an i5 760 combo.

$340 (wanted something that could somewhat run games, already had monitor, mouse and keyboard)

800 dollars about 4 years ago. It's due for an upgrade.

Oh jeez I've made so many changes and upgrades.

My first build ever cost me 710 Euro

My current build is probably about 3,000 Euro. Less if you just count what's needed for gaming

Well I can play BF4 on high so that's good enough for me. Now if only I can find a way to stop all the lights from looking like I'm staring right into the sun. That and find some people to play with cause solo = instant death. :(

@Liquid_:

..and there goes the dumbass statement of the thread.

In 2010 I spent $400 on my PC by shopping around, buying a tower that was overstocked, and convincing the manager to let me walk away with a hundred dollar rebate she shouldn't have applied. About four months later I learned that onboard graphics cards suck, and I did something similar, spending $89 on the card.

After spending $49.99 on ram a couple of weeks ago, I am now able to play Watchdogs, with plans to spend about $250 later this year so I can play Star Citizen. In rough total, I will have spent ~$800 over four years. Of course, becoming a PC gamer saved me about a grand a year, so negative thirty two hundred dollars. Around Negative thirty six hundred if you count the cost of a PS4, which I so would have purchased.

PC peasant for life yo! ~nerdfighter gang sign~

My first build back in 2008 was around $800. that was just the tower alone. I got the Samsung px2370 monitor when it first dropped in stores for $250. its still one of the best monitors to get even tho its no longer in production. I got my 2nd one on ebay for $80 damn that was a steal lol. Microsoft sidewinder x4 and the razer naga 2014 I got on newegg for $50 during the black Friday sales. at the time I wasn't really big on audio so im still running with 5.1 Logitech speakers but now after learning up on it im getting some sound monitors for my pc. Im planning to do a upgrade which will only cost me $500 for a complete overkill maxout of my current build. it will be just in time for watch dogs. I guess ill wait till after E3 to see if its even worth getting a ps4 or a xbox one. the price of those consoles I can build a stream/recording only pc that is still stronger than both consoles.

Hard to say. I have 4 PCs (gaming PC, HTPC, my simulator setup with cockpit/projector and my Linux box I use for most internet stuff), and 3 of them are made from parts I keep pulling out of my gaming PC when I upgrade. I typically buy something new every other month or so, just because I can. I'm not even chasing performance anymore, I just like new stuff.

Hell I'll drop $400 on a video card just because I like how the physical card looks.

$700. I got almost everything on sale or in a combo deal. Saved around $250 if I remember correctly.

$999.99

It was pre-build.

@br0kenrabbit: i love that strategy. upgrade a pc, salvage the spares and eventually one can build another machine.

that's what we all do unless sell if the parts are still valuable

that what pros do

Yup, yup. Several times a year I have enough parts I'm not using anymore that I build a PC or two that I can give away to someone who can't afford a decent PC. Lots of PC gamers popping up around these parts. :-p

About £1500 with a 27" 2560x1440 monitor.

About $1,500AU 2 years ago for:

• EVGA GTX 460 1GB Superclocked
• Intel i5 2500
• 4GB Kingston Ram (now upgraded to 16GB Ripjaws)
• Gigabyte-GA-P67A-UD4
• 24" BenQ 1080p monitor + peripherals + Tower etc.

It's lasted me up till now and only thing I've upgraded is the ram, but to be honest I'm not really playing all the latest games, mostly older ones so it does me fine. I'd like to upgrade to a GTX 780 which should get me a few more years of life out of it, but let's see what happens.

Now here's something fun I've decided to include, I just added up what I payed for the consoles this generation + peripherals and I'm kind of kicking myself I didn't spend half of that money into upgrading my PC =[ Keep in mind this is all with Australian dollars:

• 2 Xbox One Day One Editions = $1,400 (Bought one as a gift for my older brother, but at the time stores were sold out so I bought both from eBay for $700 each, retail price for them were $599).
• PS4 Killzone Bundle = $699 (Besides the console it came with KZ Shadow Fall, extra controller and the PlayStation camera)
• Samsung 60" LED 1080p TV = $2,500 (Well worth it's price, this TV is fucking amazing and also bought the extended 3 year warranty)
• Assassins Creed 4 ($79), Forza 5 ($84) and Titanfall ($89) games = $252
• 12 Months Xbox Live ($79) and 12 months PSN Network ($89) = $168
• Titanfall Xbox One Controller = $90
• Total Price = $5,109

Anyways I'm a bit shocked at the total as this is the first time I've sat down and added everything up properly. Keep in mind that all of that was for this generation only, that does not include the last gen consoles and games etc. that I bought.

I guess the moral of the story is, you can spend a lot of money on anything if you're not careful. Doesn't matter if it's for PC or the consoles, things add up. But remember at the end of the day if it brings you joy it's all worth it =]

Lawling at all the pc beggars in here. Not one rig has cost more than my Motion Computing Tablet PC.

CPU: i5 4670k $239
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 GAMING $105
GPU: x2 7870 OC Edition $340
PSU: 700 watts $60
CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo $29
Ram: 8 GB GSkill Ripjaws X $70
Case: Cooler Master HAF 912: $49
HDD: 2TB $79
Monitor: HP 2311x $75 (I only paid 75 for it new, but it's valued at $250)
Second Monitor: 20 inch HP monitor
KB/M: CM Storm Devastator $30
Win 7: $60

Total: $1136

*Got over $500 in free games from my GPU's*

About 2 years old now. It was a budget build, but can play all games on high. Probably around US$800.

It was probably just over NZ$1050, but prices here are expensive compared to a lot of other places. So in the US, the build would probably cost less than US$800.

about 2 1/2 years ago..

~250 cpu

~250 mobo

~80 RAM

~20 Case

~60 PSU

~180 GPU

~20 DVD

~50 HDD

$ 910 I guess..

My Xeon E5-2680V2 CPU alone was $1,900 (10 cores! *squeeee*). My ASUS P9X79-E WS mobo was nearly $600. The R9 280X 3GB was a little over $400. RAM was cheap though, 16GB for $320.

Re-used my four 2TB 7200rpm HDDs though (RAID 1+0), should probably drop for some SSDs someday here soon.

I do more than gaming with that R9:

What country do you live in? Not the US I know, all of those prices are far more than they are here.

About €650, and I'm about to pay a little over €200 for an update (or just a new video card, really).

You obviously did not read all of my post. I mentioned many times I am from Australia, and that I am using Australian prices. I hate when people ask me questions when I clearly answer them in my original post.

About 1800 EUR, I think.
i7 (six cores) @ 3,2Gh, 16GB RAM, GTX680. Was decent for is time.

Don't be so modest my friend haha ;) That PC is still killer.

Around 8 months ago I upgraded my rig with these:

Intel Core i7-4770 3.5 GHz ~ 290 EUR

MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING ~ 184 EUR

Corsair Vengeance PRO 2x8GB ~ 165 EUR

Intel SSD 335 Series 185 GB ~ 130 EUR

So that's 769 EUR of upgrades in total.

I already had these:

Gigabyte GeForce 660 GTX Ti 3 GB ~ 473 EUR (at the time)

Thermaltake Xaser III Full Tower - no idea what's the price. It's old as ****.

1 TB Hitachi HDD - no idea what's the price

750 GB Seagate - no idea what's the price

Tagan 800W - no idea what's the price. It's old as ****.

Logitech Z5500 5.1 Speaker System - no idea what's the price. It's old as ****.

So there it is. Nothing special actually.

@IgGy621985: my z5500's started emitting a low frequency hum, other audio equipment in the house doesn't do it. such a shame because they never stopped impressing people with nine inch nail's 'down in it'.

over a decade of service from yours?

the rig I have now is about 1100 euros not counting the tv and monitor and extra pheriperals (like joystick,s wireless touch keyboard etc)

i7-3820 : 290 euro

Intel thermal solution: 25 euro

gigabyte x79-ud3: 189 euro

2 x 4 gb kingston valueram 1333 mhz: 79 euro

Sapphirre 7870 xt: 210 euro

Antec one hundred case: 55 euro

Corsair tx 650 W v2: 105 euro

Wester digital caviar blue 1500 gb: 79 euro

Samsung dvd writer: 25 euro

Cherry keyboard: 25 euro

Logitech m100 mouse: 15 euro

A bit younger. Bought them in 2010 if I recall correctly. Truly awesome speakers.

Around $1100. That's not including monitors, mouse, keyboard, and speakers/subwoofer (which I all had from my previous rig).

Please tell me how you managed to emulate the original XBox.

Around £1300 on my desktop and the same for my laptop. Not purchased primarily for PC gaming but considering all I need to do is chuck in a decent GPU it's a no brainer.

1400 (1 year ago), did not have to buy a monitor or peripherals.

685.00. i-3 3220/gtx760 (2gigsgddr5)/8gigs ddr3ram//win8\\ 1tb hdd//dvd/700watt gs consair powersupply

Indeed you did, the numbers jumped out at me so much I got tunnel vision, apologies.