How are all these teenager getting gaming PC?

[XxDeadpool67xX]

SO when I was browsing on to PC Partpicker I see "1st build 13 years old" its like $1800 they say the saved most of the money? How in the world is that possible. Surprised how he didn't get a console.

[AlwaysFSX]

Some parents will blow money on crap for their kids.

[Unhelpful]

SO when I was browsing on to PC Partpicker I see "1st build 13 years old" its like $1800 they say the saved most of the money? How in the world is that possible. Surprised how he didn't get a console.

For me it was a combination of being semi-spoiled and saving up. My dad was a gamer so he helped out with it. It was a $1200 build I think I put $400 forward and my dad did $800.

 

I got a hand-me-down monitor and my dad and I built the PC and that started my love of computers and PC building!

[Albatross]

1. Parents
2. Chores/Allowance
3. Jobs (mowing lawns or moving stuff, things like that for other people)
4. Theft

Most likely option 1 or 2.

[Enderman]

parents

how do you think kids get stuff? by working a 9-5 job? lol

[Enderman]

 

1. Parents
2. Jobs
3. Chores/Allowance
4. Theft

Most likely option 1 or 3.

 

1 and 3 are the same thing

[Jerakl]

I payed for 100% of my 1.7K build myself. I got a job and saved up over about a year.

[deVIZtation]

 

1. Parents
2. Chores/Allowance
3. Jobs
4. Theft

Most likely option 1 or 2.

 

Or option 4, lol.

I have a 12yr old cousin whose parents bought him everything, iphone, xbone, macbook. I never knew 12 yr olds needed phones.....

[Albatross]

1 and 3 are the same thing

 

I fixed it to clarify. chores and allowances are something involved with the parents, and the jobs part was a reference to things they do for other people for payment. And 1, parents, is when they just buy the computer parts or computers for them, not necessarily giving them the money through hardwork chores so they can buy it themselves. So I don't really think they are the same at all.

[TheKDub]

SO when I was browsing on to PC Partpicker I see "1st build 13 years old" its like $1800 they say the saved most of the money? How in the world is that possible. Surprised how he didn't get a console.

 

I'm 16 and paid for my rig (Cost about $1200 so far) by working with my grandpa installing air conditioners and furnaces, and my other job working for my school. (Took like the entire year to save up enough for the system without an ssd, 8gb less of ram than it has now, and no dedicated gpu, gpu was purchased in the beginning of this year, then the additional 8gb of ram and ssd was this week )

[XxDeadpool67xX]

1 and 3 are the same thing

 

parents

how do you think kids get stuff? by working a 9-5 job? lol

 

 

1. Parents
2. Chores/Allowance
3. Jobs (mowing lawns or moving stuff, things like that)
4. Theft

Most likely option 1 or 2.

 

 

For me it was a combination of being semi-spoiled and saving up. My dad was a gamer so he helped out with it. It was a $1200 build I think I put $400 forward and my dad did $800.

 

I got a hand-me-down monitor and my dad and I built the PC and that started my love of computers and PC building!

 

Some parents will blow money on crap for their kids.

I've seen someone use this excuse. If you spend $450 a year on birthday and christmas money and its 5 more years until I'm out of the house. Can you get me a $1800 PC and spend $90 a year surprsingly it worked not sure if it would work now a days.

 

My face was like 0.o

[itachipirate]

It's like how most other teenagers get consoles, except these teenagers are smart and get gaming PCs instead. They save their parents money in the long run after not having to buy a new console every few years, it has more functionality then a console, will be relavent much much longer, and gaming is an overall better experience. You could also ask how teenagers get consoles (Their parents buy it for them)

[XxDeadpool67xX]

I'm 16 and paid for my rig (Cost about $1200 so far) by working with my grandpa installing air conditioners and furnaces, and my other job working for my school. (Took like the entire year to save up enough for the system without an ssd, 8gb less of ram than it has now, and no dedicated gpu, gpu was purchased in the beginning of this year, then the additional 8gb of ram and ssd was this week )

I feel like its hard to get into pc gaming if your under 16

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

Well usually through the help of parents...or over time reselling things they got for you at a much younger age 

[TheKDub]

I feel like its hard to get into pc gaming if your under 16

 

Depends on how powerful of a rig you want and how hard you're willing to work for it.

[XxDeadpool67xX]

Well usually through the help of parents...or over time reselling things they got for you at a much younger age 

Lol so say I'll pay you back when I'm 30 

[Syntaxvgm]

I bought PCs when I was that age. I never got crazy stuff I didn't need, but I bought quite a few things. PCs, parts, screens, consoles, games, stacks of drives.

Hell I used to have an array of like 80GB drives that I called "bulletproof" for my projects. 

Basically, it was about 240GB of storage data, mirrored 3 times. So 9 drives. My joke was no single from any direction could make me loose my data. Plus you know the striping made the sustains read/write speed pretty damn good. 

 

 Made my own money, parents were poor as hell and neither were in any way computer literate. It's possible. But yea most are probably spoiled. 

[XxDeadpool67xX]

Depends on how powerful of a rig you want and how hard you're willing to work for it.

the only thing is that if your building like a $550 or $600 "console killer"  You might have to buy a monitor and mouse which is about and extra $150-$200 might increase if you don't have a keyboard

[elecxonica]

the only thing is that if your building like a $550 or $600 "console killer"  You might have to buy a monitor and mouse which is about and extra $150-$200 might increase if you don't have a keyboard

Well, to be fair you could get by with a TV and a $12 keyboard or mouse.

[Alexk492]

Well I am 13 and I'll tell you how I got my new gaming PC.

Atm, the PC we have is slow. No GPU, Intel core i5 2.80Ghz. My games run really slowly, and my parents basicly trashed the hard drive with videos of my brother and I in sports. There's literally only about 10gb left on a 1tb hardrive. The PC is 7years old, pre-made dell PC.

So I wanted to play Gta iv and lcpdfr mods and the graphics were automatically set to the lowest possible and there was still graphics problems. That was the last straw, I thought to myself, we need a new PC.

So I asked my parents about a new PC for gaming, and they would buy me some parts for it. I'm just gonna install another hard drive for them and they can put all the videos they want on it. It's a win-win for both, I get new PC, and they get more space, plus I won't be hogging the PC all day and night.

[XxDeadpool67xX]

Well I am 13 and I'll tell you how I got my new gaming PC.

Atm, the PC we have is slow. No GPU, Intel core i5 2.80Ghz. My games run really slowly, and my parents basicly trashed the hard drive with videos of my brother and I in sports. There's literally only about 10gb left on a 1tb hardrive. The PC is 7years old, pre-made dell PC.

So I wanted to play Gta iv and lcpdfr mods and the graphics were automatically set to the lowest possible and there was still graphics problems. That was the last straw, I thought to myself, we need a new PC.

So I asked my parents about a new PC for gaming, and they would buy me some parts for it. I'm just gonna install another hard drive for them and they can put all the videos they want on it. It's a win-win for both, I get new PC, and they get more space, plus I won't be hogging the PC all day and night.

How much did they spend on it?

[DarkBlade2117]

I'm 14, been working my butt off for over a month and I've just gotten to $200, chores everyday for like an hour atleast. Gonna try and get a job a this golf course, $150 every two weeks. It's hard for me.. My mom would put probably $300'towards it and it's lke $2,000 with one new monitor. Betime I finish the setup I'll probably be 15 or 16, the PC and new monitor will be mine before the year ends though.. Peripheals are a whole new story also. Around $4000 including everything I've estimated but like I said, slow and steady.

[Whorax]

Maybe they bought them. I bought mine.

[XxDeadpool67xX]

I'm 14, been working my butt off for over a month and I've just gotten to $200, chores everyday for like an hour atleast. Gonna try and get a job a this golf course, $150 every two weeks. It's hard for me.. My mom would put probably $300'towards it and it's lke $2,000 with one new monitor. Betime I finish the setup I'll probably be 15 or 16, the PC and new monitor will be mine before the year ends though.. Peripheals are a whole new story also. Around $4000 including everything I've estimated but like I said, slow and steady.

 

Maybe they bought them. I bought mine.

Well now I'm curious on what jobs they have if there buying it buy themselves. I mean some parents won't give allowances and don't see too many jobs that will hire kids under 16. 

[Syntaxvgm]

Might I suggest computer repair? Thats one of the things I did at that age for money. If you charge 20 or 40$ for something that takes you 5-10 minutes and then letting it sit and load, it's easy cash. Especially if you fix it right. You don't want them back like the repair shop would, you want them to tell their friends who they went to. I have the benefit of one of the only repair shops that people knew of in the area being everything but a scam. I mean if you can't  solve the problem, rip their key and reinstall windows. It was easy money for me, and over time I became really good at repairing laptops as well.