PC's are getting to expensive. (Australian residents)

[G9x001]

The cost of building a new pc is to expensive back in 2010 you could build a high end gaming pc with top of the range dual graphics cards for under $3000.00 and 4 years later to build the same pc it will cost you around $4300.00. I earn $160,000 a year gross and I can't even justify spending $4300 on a gaming pc. I will not be building a new pc for sometime to come and I'm still on the 1366 socket with a i7 950 .

 

Question: Do you think high end gaming PC's are becoming out of reach for the average person?

 

[JoaoPRSousa]

Here in Portugal in back 2010 or so you could buy 8GB of RAM for 35€, but now it is over 75€...

Then DDR3 is newer while the time passes here...

[BonBon Scott]

I thought PCs were getting cheaper. Australia is supposed to be upside-down, not backwards.

[X1XNobleX1X]

The cost of building a new pc is to expensive back in 2010 you could build a high end gaming pc with top of the range dual graphics cards for under $3000.00 and 4 years later to build the same pc it will cost you around $4300.00. I earn $160,000 a year gross and I can't even justify spending $4300 on a gaming pc. I will not be building a new pc for sometime to come and I'm still on the 1366 socket with a i7 950 .

 

Question: Do you think high end gaming PC's are becoming out of reach for the average person?

Parts are expensive in Australia generally. 

I'm lucky enough to have a high paying job to afford a new PC almost every "tock" generation.

[Deletive]

160k AUD. thats 143k in USD. what the hell man quit complaining. You don't have to spend 4300$ on a high end gaming PC. infact by then thats not even for gaming anymore. 1k maybe 1.8k could get you something that'll last you 3-4 years in the gaming world probably.

Some of us are still in school and thank you very much for just throwing in the 160k you make (sarcasm) We don't care how much you make.
 

[Si3Rra_7]

Here in Portugal in back 2010 or so you could buy 8GB of RAM for 35€, but now it is over 75€...

Then DDR3 is newer while the time passes here...

Thats because of the HUGE ram factory burning down , and stuff here in europe is usually expensive ( 1$ to 1 euro +10% compared to USA , I.E. USA gtx 760 : 250$ , in europe : 275 euro)

[Si3Rra_7]

160k AUD. thats 143k in USD. what the hell man quit complaining. You don't have to spend 4300$ on a high end gaming PC. infact by then thats not even for gaming anymore. 1k maybe 1.8k could get you something that'll last you 3-4 years in the gaming world probably.

Some of us are still in school and thank you very much for just throwing in the 160k you make (sarcasm) We don't care how much you make.

 

Here in Romania 5000$ a YEAR is something a highschool graduate can get as a pretty well payed 40+ hours a week job

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[c3p0]

Then save up. What you think most of us doing here? This setup right here is worth 1,2k. Do you think I make that in a month? Yes, but won't starve because a computer.

[Picklenuttz]

Some of us are still in school and thank you very much for just throwing in the 160k you make (sarcasm) We don't care how much you make.

 

HaHaaaa back to school for all you  little ones in BC!

 

Now back on topic, everything costs more.

[ttam]

With the amount you make, you're well over the average person in the US and make a big chunk of money.

I was able to purchase whatever I wanted even when I was making $50,000 a year.

 

When I made 145k this was my break down;

 

$10,000 a month

- $1300 rent

- $100 internet

- $140 phone

- $100 electric/sewer/garbage

- $80 gas

- $500 food

- $1500 investments (retirement, etc)

 

Leaving well over $6000 left in a month. How are you running into worrying about spending that money? You can live lavishly off this amount 

[Si3Rra_7]

With the amount you make, you're well over the average person in the US and make a big chunk of money.

I was able to purchase whatever I wanted even when I was making $50,000 a year.

 

When I made 145k this was my break down;

 

$10,000 a month

- $1300 rent

- $100 internet

- $140 phone

- $100 electric/sewer/garbage

- $80 gas

- $500 food

- $1500 investments (retirement, etc)

 

Leaving well over $6000 left in a month. How are you running into worrying about spending that money? You can live lavishly off this amount 

Dayum , i wish i made that amount in a year

[killcomic]

Dude, seriously.The reason why we pay an arm and a leg for components here in Australia is because we get paid a LOT compared to the rest of the world. Our wages are high and so are our living standards, so I think there is very little reason to complain.

And why the heck are you planning to spend over 4K on a gaming PC? You can build a stupidly powerful one for less that $1500!

[G9x001]

I have a wife a child to support as well. Its not that I can't afford to spend $4300.00 on a new pc I just have a huge amount of trouble trying to justify spending that kind of money. 

[Deletive]

I have a wife a child to support as well. Its not that I can't afford to spend $4300.00 on a new pc I just have a huge amount of trouble trying to justify spending that kind of money. 

That still doesn't change anything... people can live happily on a third of what you're making and still manage to to get luxuries

[Mentoast]

It's because of economics. You can purchase a very decent gaming PC for less than $2000 but once you pass a certain threshold where the fixed price to produce and engineer a product cannot be easily distributed among a large amount of sales then the pricing easily gets out of hand. What you are seeing with these top tier builds is a symptom of this but is nowhere near industrial products.

[G9x001]

Thanks to everyone for your comments.

[murratri]

Its likely due to import tariffs(as with all countries that aren't Singapore), low demand(relatively), and higher business expenses(not really for manufacturers but retailers)-ie. higher taxes and minimum wage.

-don't start complaining about how your taxes are no factor or whatever, its late-

[eLucid]

The cost of building a new pc is to expensive back in 2010 you could build a high end gaming pc with top of the range dual graphics cards for under $3000.00 and 4 years later to build the same pc it will cost you around $4300.00. I earn $160,000 a year gross and I can't even justify spending $4300 on a gaming pc. I will not be building a new pc for sometime to come and I'm still on the 1366 socket with a i7 950 .

 

Question: Do you think high end gaming PC's are becoming out of reach for the average person?

 

[Etho_7]

160K a year? and you can't justify 4K, you're a joke mate.
I was on less then 40K and I spent 2.5K and got a 780Ti in my machine
Prices here aren't that bad. I even did a price comparison with NCIX and my local supplier, there was just over 200 difference for a full build.
I know in other countries that difference can easily double.
By the way, try living off Apprentice wages then start complaining how expensive everything is.

[G9x001]

It's strange how people turn straight to abuse when they have no comprehension or knowledge of the question asked of them.

[dizmo]

Thats because of the HUGE ram factory burning down , and stuff here in europe is usually expensive ( 1$ to 1 euro +10% compared to USA , I.E. USA gtx 760 : 250$ , in europe : 275 euro)

That's actually not why RAM was so cheap. It was one of the reasons it got expensive for a bit, but not why it was cheap.

 

I have a wife a child to support as well. Its not that I can't afford to spend $4300.00 on a new pc I just have a huge amount of trouble trying to justify spending that kind of money. 

So do a lot of people, making a lot less.

 

It's strange how people turn straight to abuse when they have no comprehension or knowledge of the question asked of them.

What do you expect? There was no real reason to include the amount of money you make, it just makes it seem like you're rubbing it in everyone elses face.

It's pretty low class.

[SeriouslyMikey]

I feel I should make an "All Australians are convicts" joke and tell you to steal the components. 

[Technous285]

I "get" $842.80/fortnight ($421.40/week, a shade under $22K/year) on govo pay (since apparently I'm "unemployable" even if I wanted to get a damn job), of which no less than $600/pay goes directly into housekeeping for paying for things like power, water, food, phone/net (don't even use the landline it's just there for the modem to work). The other $242.80/fortnight ($121.40/week, $6312.8/year) is my personal "play money" for buying things like computer parts.

 

For me to afford out-and-out buying a computer worth $4K in parts, that's about 8 months of saving every other week's pay, not accounting for the cost of shipping & handling to GET the parts to me (I'm 100-120km from the nearest burger joint, mall or cinema, so it's easier just to get the parts shipped up from Melbourne than it is to spend a 2-hour round-trip to get the parts at a 'local' store).

[SkilledRebuilds]

Parts are expensive here yes, but you don't need to spend $4000 if you don't NEED to, just like everyone else... they could spend thousands more than they had to at their equivalent currency.

I've lived here my whole life, and while I'm not a fancy 1440p>Triple screen dualGPU type of PC user, I comply with what I feel I need when I need it to my liking,...the second fastest single GPU each 2-3 years,..and a Powerful CPU every few generations isn't that expensive at all.

 

Personally,..A Great PC starting at say... $1100-1500 is about the money I'd spend for a single monitor system (1440p or less with a lot of good gear) and $2000 for something more powerful for the task being MoreCores+1440p+/Triple1080p.

Still not that expensive, unless you have expensive needs, which is anywhere in the world, not just Australia.