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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 week agoI was just going to say my new PC was $5000 and $1,200 of that was the GPU.
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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 week agoI was just going to say my new PC was $5000 and $1,200 of that was the GPU.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Just to game thought?
IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I don’t see how a gaming only pc has $3800 of non-gpu costs. There has to be a threadripper equivalent cpu and/or a shit ton of storage/ram on there.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Motherboards aren’t cheap, nor is the top of the line CPUs. The 7950x3D is still $600 on amazon. X670e boards start at like $200 and go up over $500 easily. If you just say fuck it and buy the best you can easily hit that number, especially if you throw in some high end storage drives.
I’m looking to replace my CPU, mobo and ram and I’m looking at at least $1200 for that.
moody@lemmings.world 1 week ago
Wait for sales and you can spend half that. If you’re willing to settle for anything less than top of the line, you can go even lower. I picked up a 7900X3D under $450 CAD this summer. My Motherboard was under $200 CAD for an ITX board, and I got 32GB of 6000mHz RAM for $125 CAD.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Oh I totally see how you CAN do it. I’ve done it. A lot. Just nowadays i don’t see why you would need to. Maybe a true 4k multi monitor setup but a 7800xt is cheap and great for 1440p and you can build a 1500 dollar rig (minus the monitor) and be pretty damn ok.
I tend to weekend my money on homelab shit so my priorities have changed these pay few decades lol
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
My desktop is literally only used for gaming (I have a separate PC for everything else) and I spent probably 3-4k on it.
Buy a lot of high end NVMe storage and I could easily see it costing 5k.