Where does Your PC stand in terms of price to performance ratio?

[Northmountain]

How does your PC rank in terms of value to You personally? looking back was it a poor decision? or a perfect choice for Your day to day tasks or just an overkill?

Sorry but you are asking two different questions (and your answer options seems to come in a strange order).

 

Price to performance (as in the actual poll) and value to me personally (as in your question quoted here) are two very different things. That being said, I still want to give you my opinion if you're interested.

 

My price to performance, I'd rank as below average. I've bought some expensive stuff that I - strictly speaking - don't need, thereby lowering price/perfomance ratio (imo).

 

My PC value to me personally, is off the chart. I have the stuff I feel that I want in my rig at this point in time, with overkill crap that guests look at and say "wtf is that and wtf are you doing?". But I like it, and I take pride in what i have done with it.

 

Long answer I know.   I did vote as well - as best as I could with the options given.

[CJ Chua]

Not fking worth it. I got a decent 4460 but I got a GT 730 2GB version from Gigabyte and a 4GB of ram

[German_John]

I have a history of good price to performance picking.

I bought a prebuilt in early 2011 and it was still able to run Far Cry 3 (at 720p min settings, so basically console-grade ) so I was pretty satisfied with that.

In August I bought a Y50, the top specced model, used, for about USD850 (750€). It's not a full gaming rig, and a PC for that price would have performed better, but it's a laptop and has a 4k screen attached, so...

 

(I also got some 500€ core i3 thing in 2013, that was not an ideal decision...)

[Lethal Seraph]

TIL my 980 aint good enough for that. 

 

They should have that game as a legit benchmark.

[Praesi]

When i install a Game and want set it to maximum and play it without any issues. I pay what is necessary for that.

[IMPERIUS]

At the time it was worth it

[FunkyFeatures]

Spent wayy too much on aesthetics... was originally £850, now £1100 - with no real performance improvement.

1st world problem though: I have saved up enough to have an upgrade, but I find it to be completely fine for just about anything - not even considering SLI.

 

Looking back, I would've either gone for the Enthoo Luxe or Enthoo Evolv ITX and watercool the shit out of either of them now. I find my Define R5 2derp5watercooling

[mchgrms]

$1400 got me a Xeon E3-1241 V3 with a 980 Ti. I like to play CS:GO and MGS:TPP. I'd say I have a solid over-kill rig. But I love it.

[The Official Czex]

Mah signature, tho...

[Stigs]

I spent just under $1000 on my PC back in 2012, but now it's probably worth something like $600 (Correct me if I'm wrong, my rig is in my sig.).  It performs very well still at 1080p with most settings on High on new games, and Ultra on some slightly older games, so in terms of today's performance with what I spent on the rig, I'd say it's a bit overpriced, but still somewhat good for price to performance.

[Security]

Overkill for what I do normally but good (not optimal) for what I bought it for which was gaming, video recording and editing.

[ConnorDahne]

Completely overkill, because I game maybe thirty mins to maybe an hour on a good day...

But to be honest, I enjoy messing with my pc and getting a build ready/building more than I like gaming