Hermits: How much did your PC cost to build?

When I first built mine, it cost about £500 but I already had a monitor, KB/M and OS. Over that time though I've spent about £2000 in upgrades.

About $850 in 2009,still runs pretty much everything either at high or max settings.

Monitor- 700

PC including accessories- Around 1800. Ultra settings for just about anything.

A 400 dollar PC can be great, but it wasn't what I wanted. That's the great thing about PCs, you can spend pretty much what you want on them to suit your tastes.

That's the PERSONAL in PC (Personal Computer). If I wanted the same thing that everybody else has I would have gotten one of the new consoles. (My PS3 is just fine for now)

In 2008 I spent around €1500. I used the same parts until summer 2013 when I changed most of the parts and spent around €1000 for upgrades. I only kept the case, PSU, optical drive, screen and kb/m.

I could use cheaper parts, but I don't want to. It's entirely my choice.

Long time pc gamers are obviously going to spend more on their hardware, that does not mean a cheaper -$600 pc is no good.

My first build back in the 90s cost me about £500

My last build cost me £1500

On my first build back in 2007 I spent around 1,400 Euros including monitor and accessories and used it until 2012. During the time I had this PC I upgraded the video card every year ( I didn't have to I just could)

In the summer of 2012 I got my new PC and it cost about 1,600 Euros ( this was just the tower). This year again I upgrade my video card and cost me an other 500 euros and probably spent around 300 in peripherals and accessories.

Adding to that I got an MSI GT70 2OC laptop for 1,600 Euros which I use for gaming when I'm bored at work with nothing to do and got a laptop for the gf for 1,000 Euros and a gaming PC for her as well for another 1,000 Euros.

I didn't have to spend this much but I could and I wanted to that is why I love PC gaming

I spent $3500 a year and a half ago and my computer runs everything extremely smooth. I was actually able to get BO2 to hit 175 fps. not bad for a single GPU.

£750 but then I bought extra stuff since then.

$875 was the total build back in 2010. I have Maxed out every game i have played. Just this year i had to slightly scale some stuff off of max. I can most easily do a upclock to make pretty much every thing run max again

when i first assembled this build, it would have been close to 400 american dollars. Pentium G840, Radeon 7850. Performance in modern games was astounding.

Over time I added another 4gb of ram, and just recently I upgraded from Pentium to Core i5. main reason for the upgrade is because i also do a lot of work on this machine - I find my work more enjoyable when the computer responds rapidly.

Consolites forget how many different things you can do with a PC and they letting aside how many great games you can buy for PC with half price or even less than consoles.

( Steam sales for example i bought Just Cause 2+ DLC for 3$ , GTA4 for 4$ , Max payne 3 3$ , CS:GO for 2,79$ , Alan wake + DLCs 3,49$ , Origins Bundle 5$ for 9 games including BF3/Mirrors edge/ Dead space 1 +3 and many more ... Try buy all those titles with less than 20$ if you can for consoles )

So yeah , you spend alot more for hardware that in the end of the day youll play x10 times better ( go watch GTA 4 with mods , youll shit your pants ) almost every game , better internet connections , best versions , Best value ( moding anyone? ) , best multiplayer , free games ( LoL , DoTA , MMORPGS etc etc ) ... while you can do 1242424 more things like ( music production , Photo tweaking , Djing , Video production , Movie coding and so many other things its ridiculous )

So , consolites ... Behave please !

$10,600 ncluding monitor and speakers.

$1500-1700 but that's with everything, monitor/keyboard/mice/windows7 n all that

$900 excluding a monitor I just used a tv screen and had to buy another motherboard the 1st one died after 3 hours

600 dollars in pc parts because I already had most of the other stuff needed that I got for little to nothing

I just did a build for a friend a few weeks ago and we paid $660 for all the parts (including OS) + shipping (most items had free shipping luckily).

Overall he's happy with it. A xboxone with tax + a year of online was going to cost him $600 and we paid $60 more than that to get a system with more ram, much faster CPU (FX 8320) and a GPU that's as fast as both next gen consoles combined (Asus 670 that overclocked to stock 680/7970ghz speeds). Not only that but the GPU came with $100 in games

$660 was a steal at that price ($60 more than xboxone would of been for $100 in games + a much faster system).

£3600 on my current build straight up. No upgrades.

First build was 710 EUR. The build I run now including all my fancy recording gear cost me well over 4,000 EUR I'd say

in 2006 I built the following rig:

C2D OCed @ 3.2ghz

2gb DDR2 800 RAM

650w OCZ PSU

Asus p5b MOBO

1TB Samsung spinpoint F1

Generic Mid-Tower Case

7900GT GPU, sold it and Bought an 8800GT

Cost with the 8800GT: $800

This rig lasted me into 2011, when my father's PC broke and I gave this one to him, wasn't planning to upgrade really, that rig ran all my games med-high setting at 1680x1050, mostly high. I bought the following rig as a replacement:

Phenom2 x6 1045t OCed to 3.3ghz

8gb ddr3 1600 RAM cas 8

ASRock Extreme 3 AM3+ MOBO

Thermatake 8 50W PSU

GTX460 1gb OCed to 850ghz summer/900mhz winter

Antec 900 Midtower

Cost: $650-700

This is the PC I have now, with the exception of the GPU which is currently an HD7970 which I got as a present from my GF. I wasn't planning to upgrade this rig until 2 years into the new console gen, it ran all my games at 1080p on high setting without issue. FC3, BF3, Crysis 2, Crysis 3 (med) etc. I would go so far to say that my OCed GTX460 easily kept up with the new concoles, and would do so for at least 2 years. FarCry3 for example ran on high-very high @ 1080p with 40+fps. So I guess my current rig is around $700 with the 7970. With the new GPU I don't plan on upgrading until I reach all med settings @ 1080p for 90% of the games I play, which looks to be a very loooong while, especially now that the consoles are using AMD hardware and basically stripped down versions of my GPU.

About 5 years ago spent around $2000.00 Canadian.

Work machine in Graphic design so some parts were more for that than gaming.

Including OS, keyboard and mouse - $800 or so. I also bought a monitor that was like $170 at the time.

I recently built my new gaming rig for 1200$. It includes the monitor, kb and m and the os as well.

just bought mine for 2200$ including windows 7 and monitor

In 2008, it cost me around $800. That's with ASRock 780GXE MB, ATI HD 4870 512 MB GDDR5 (yeah, that's right consolers, we had GDDR5 5 YEARS before you guys! ;)), AMD X2 6000+, 4 GB DDR II OCZ Reapers RAM, 610 PC Power and Cooling PSU, Samsung DVD +/- RW, Windows Vista Ultimate, 250 GB Seagate HD and Smilodon Raidmax Gaming Case. And I used my old keyboard and mouse. I was able to run all games at 1080P all maxed out for the next 2+ years, with the exception of GTA IV (which had piss poor optimization but even then I was able to run it at 1080P with the some settings decreased).

See...consolers you don't need a $5000 PC or even a $1500 PC to run games maxed out at 1080P.

(And I did upgrade the above PC, to play current games at 1080P in DX 11 for an extra $300-$400, mainly on the GPU and CPU.

Way above that infamous $400 mark that gets thrown around, around half of it have been payied for by my workplace, but still, I think it is around the $3000 mark. It would be overkill for typical gaming.

That said, while it is possible to make a 400$ pc I assume most PC gamers here would suggest against it. buit then a console does not really cost the initial cost either, so it kinds of evens out.

I'm not a hermit.... But build mines this year... recently bought an SSD for it so the price right now is about 900+ i'm expecting to upgrade the mother board and graphics card next year though.

About two years ago I asked a friend to build a computer for me for about 900. Later on I bought another screen for over 200. Currently I'm trying to get a new motherboard and ram.

over $2,000 easily, counting the upgrades I've received since I built it around 2007-2008.

December 2013 $670. Everything included. Monitor, speakers, OS.

I can play pretty much every latest game medium high 1920*1080.

Still considering getting an other video card.

Mine was originally $550 back in 2009. I've since added an upgraded GPU which was I think $250 when I got it. I'm playing everything at 1080p/60 or higher and downsampling.

About $2800, back in 2012.

$1100 at the time but to build a similar rig now would cost 700 probably maybe even less or even more. AMD GPU prices are like the stock market right now.

Mine was around $800 (including monitor, without the GPU) around one year ago but I'm not from the US. With Newegg prices it's probably around $550. Still waiting for a GPU to buy.

bu...bu...but you have to buy windows everytime you buy or upgrade you PC. Shenanigans!!

Well more like $11,000 if I include upgrades.

$1,080 (not inc the fee they charged me for putting it together) from iBuypower, never again will I buy from that website.

But yah, obviously my PC setup is on another level for those 11k.

LOL @ desktop peasants

i have to include TV price??

i spent 400 on PC

20 dollars on wireless KB & mouse

6 on wireless usb adapter

now i decide wich games deserve my money

on my X360 i spent

350 for the console

25 on extra wired controller necessary for kb mouse adapter

100 on kb mouse adapter

60 on xbox live

total 535, i lasted 1 year and died, worst investment ive made

my ps3 was a better deal, sold it 3 years later for 50% of the original price

my wii was bought for 200 dollars and sold 2 months later after playing all the mario games for 230

nobody said $400 pcs are great, they said they match consoles.... which is not my definition of "great".

probably around £800. £1200 if you include the 3 monitors, and this includes razer mouse/keyboard and headset.

we spend what we like. actually having options.

My pc was a bit over $500 when I first built it. Had no trouble running games at @1080p. I could even run BF3 on ultra at the time.
I added more things and that of course upped the price. I didn't buy more things because it couldn't run games at fps that I wanted, I just wanted better things in mine.
pcpartpicker says my computer is valued at voer $1500. But I've only spent maybe $750 - $800 total on mine.

My current rig is worth about $2800 including monitor, speakers, etc.

It depends.

Probably like $1600 on the hardware/upgrades over the last gen. But at the same time, i bought monitors/desks/chairs/speakers etc for the sole purpose of PC gaming (as I did all my schoolwork on the couch with my laptop). So the real cost of supporting my PC gaming habit is quite a bit bigger.

Obviously its different for everyone, but I know in my particular case PC gaming has been quite costly. But you do what you gotta do when you have an MMO addiction.

I spent about $1000 (closer to $2000 if you include things like monitor, mouse/keyboard, and OS) on mine toward the beginning of last gen. I upgraded it for about $500 a few years ago. The upgrade was really only was that expensive because games started to really need a quad core processor to run well, and I had to get a new motherboard to accommodate it. I really don't think I will have to spend more than $400-$500 this whole gen to keep games running really well, unless games start requiring 8 core CPUs or something. PC gaming has a high barrier of entry, but once you already have a gaming PC, it really doesn't take much to keep gaming on it.

My rig alone is worth about £1,000. With a decent keyboard, mouse and monitor, all that would add up to £1,400.