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Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 days agoI over the last 15 years I’ve bought a total of 4 consoles. Ranging from $300 and below, and only 1 of those was an upgrade. The other 3 were different consoles to play different exclusives. We’ll just call it $1200 plus $150 for extra controllers and headsets. How much have you spent on your PC since you bought it?
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
May I ask you, how much did you spend on games?
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I am cheap. I only buy games on sale or f2p. Wouldn’t be fair comparison. Probably less than $500 in 15 years.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I probably paid four times as much on PC games because I bought way more than I could ever play 🤔
But 1000 is probably what my initial build did cost.
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
800€
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I’ll chime in:
Since purchase at $1200 for a custom build in 2020, I’ve spent $500 upgrading storage and my video card for my PC. It can push most modern games at 80fps with ray tracing on low and all other settings on high. Leveraging frame-gen it can do 2k120.
It also holds about 5TB of music and movies, and hosts them on a server which I can access anywhere via a URL pointed to my tunnel.
It also has a DAW, an IDE, and a Nextcloud instance, also accessable anywhere.
$1700 in for total liberation from the tech overlords is worth it. The 500+ games in the steam family library are just a bonus.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That is an incredible price in 2020. The graphics cards alone were going for that much.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I went for a lower end GPU from the previous generation at the time, a GTX 1650 the types of game I was playing at the time accomadated that decision.