How much are you willing to spend on a computer?

[Sicarius]

On my tower so far I have spent a good £1200. I have a GPU, SSD and some other bits such as some quieter fans and some gimicks like lights. £2k is decent for me as long as it lasts me 2-3 years.

[Thony]

£1000 maximum including monitor.

[JT8101997]

My pc and the rest of my setup cost around 5k. Although, that's cause I have dual water cooled 780's a 4930k an Asus rog mobo and three monitors

[-ism]

Looking back on my first PC build I think I wasted a fair chunk of $$. Could have got a cheaper case, cheaper PSU, not an SSD when they were relatively new and still expensive, better mobo for the same $$, a non-Corsair K70, no Blue Snowball mic, no mousepad, no logitech mouse, a non loud as f@#$ H100i. 

 

I spent around $1300 for my whole system (Not including monitor and keyboard) but I wish I had gone with cheaper components and upgraded the stuff that really mattered.. monitor and gpu. 

 

I suppose the max I would spend on a PC at one time would be maybe, $2000? I can't see any real reason to spend more than that. As long as I get a relatively high-end GPU, CPU, case, and cooler I would be happy. Honestly you could probably satisfy me completely with even less than that. $1600ish probably

[AngryPandaPC]

So my very recent build was $1700-$1800 according to pcpartpicker.  However, several of the components were bought over several months and using various gift cards and discounts.  So my realized cost was closer to $1400.  

 

I'm pretty pleased with what I got out of that kind of budget.  I didn't go absolute top end on everything, but I also didn't have to really compromise or cut corners on quality.

 

That being said, I didn't invest much in peripherals, fun accessories (like lighting, graphics, watercooling), or anything else like that.  So it is likely that over the next few months I'll be dumping probably another $500 into various components.

[DesertRecon3]

Currently I have $500 into my current PC (GTX 750ti) add another $300 for the BenQ. Looking to upgrade graphics card once they restock. 750ti doesn't do above 60fps well outside Desktop, old games, and Portal2. I buy AMD processors being their a better value for someone who doesn't need the top processing power, and nvidia cards for nvidia shield stream +ShadowPlay.

[dannyule]

I usually dont buy my PC pieces all together but by piece by piece but usually them pieces are high quality. So about £400 per round.

I've probably spent about £1500 so far.

[Daniel Nordahl]

Paid $1200 for my computer, and monitor.

i5-3470 and GTX 760

Philips 24" LED 242G5DJEB

[Toasted Waffles]

My current setup is around $9,000 with monitors desk and everything all added in.

[humpingpandas]

Since I need my computer for work, whatever it takes to get the job done.

[shadowblitz3]

not much for now but as soon as i finish school and get a job I'll spend as much as i can

[marioo1182]

However much I would need to spend in order for it to computer what I need it to compute in an efficient manner.

[Fomalhaut]

depends on several things...but if i do want to upgrade right now, it would be definitely less than 1300 after tax.

[rebirth_assasin]

For a 13 years old like me about $1000

[lutewan]

i dont really care how much i spend because its my hobbie

[s4spencer]

Almost as much as I can tbh. I won't spend senselessly, but if the opportunity comes to dump my current (~$1500) rig for some dream 4k machine? Yeah.

 

 

 

[PiPi636]

My PC was €1500 (1 878.6 U.S. dollars) and bought my MacBook Pro for €1140 (1 427.736 U.S. dollars). Prices of Google don't sound right though .

[MrStraightface]

$1k/$1500.  Anything > is not necessary and will last you ~ 5 years with one video card swap out in the middle somewhere.

[a_higby]

Legitimately anything that makes it fun. It's a lot harder to actually do than it is to say, but I try.

[Đỗ Đức Huy]

1000$ with a monitor is all I could stomach. But I buy and upgrade sensibly (ie what the community advise me is good, what the tech guy said is good and I have the cash for it)

[NumeroSieben]

Pretty much all the money. 

 

I love researching PC parts and then seeing a build come together and making it look cool as well as operate extremely well, i spend so much of my time gaming or working on the computer that its really convenient and fun to go overkill even when it brings in a lot of diminishing returns or over the top expenses to make something i can be proud of rather than just pure function on a budget kind of thing. My friend thinks I'm stupid to buy such overkill parts, but i like it, and i dont really spend my money on anything else. 

 

if i had 10,000 dollars, i would spend 10,000 dollars  

[XCalinX]

as much as i can. If i won 848377473$ id spend em all on pcs

[Botasky]

I paid $4000 for my current rig and I would pay more if I could. For gaming this is way too overkill, but I'd use my computer for video editing and 3D rendering, so it paid back for it self.

[MINA_ADEL]

in tech , you get what you pay for  so i would spend as much as i can but be wisely choosing the parts

[Haptix]

My original build from 2010 started out as a $1500 AUD build (about $1300 USD) that I was able to claim 50% of that back on as a school related expense. Since then I've added more monitors, a very expensive mechanical keyboard (shipping to AU is so much T_T), some nice headphones, upgraded PSU, GPU and case, as well as adding an SSD and some more storage drives. The running total now for the parts actually inside/connected to the PC is roughly $3500 AUD ($3000 USD) and considering how much I use the thing I believe I have gotten more than enough value out of it and would happily spend that much money again and probably more given the chance.