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

[GeTecknics]

mine was too expensive but i did it because i wanted a high endish system while i had the money to do so and given how long all my current stuff has in terms of longevity it looks like i did good because nothing is too new or too old so when the time comes i can pass the entire system along instead of reusing some stuff here or there

[DildorTheDecent]

Total overkill considering I only play this.

TIL my 980 aint good enough for that. 

[Dubesta11]

As far as my i5/970, those components are fairly balanced for single/triple 1080p gaming. The other parts are overkill, like 1TB of SSD storage, a massive cooler, overkill PSU, overkill fans, and a stealth case.

[The Toaster]

I bought a used Lenovo t420 for 80.

Then I threw in a 128 ssd and 1tb hdd for 110$

I put in 8gb of corsair high preformance for 60

Finally I upgraded the processor to a 2720qm for 70.

Finished with the 9 cell Battery and disk drive costed 30

 

Awesome laptop for ~350. I use it for school and league. It is mostly held together by tape and super-glue though.

[Shinrin_Cole]

I just recently spent a bit over $600 dollars on a new case, mobo, cpu and ram, (some of the stuff came from my old computer)

 

And that's just part of my upgrade, the rest of the upgrade is going to cost me about another 900 dollars give or take to finish the build and most of that money is going to go towards a video card that probably will last me a while.

 

But while i think it may be a bit over kill on my part, I do want this build to last me a while. Only thing I really want to replace would be bad ram, a bad storage drive, bad fans or a bad PSU.

 

And I'm using this computer right now to play a game that my old computer can run just fine... Well because it's a fun game and it just came out. But I do want to play some games that require a good GPU!

[techswede]

Got sub par gpu solutions twice in a row. So at total cost its probably closer to alienware pcs in terms of price to performance.. And that i had to swap out my mobo added to that as well

All in all. Not great. But now it works like a charm

[FuzzyYellow]

meh. I could use more performance, mainly on the CPU side, but Preformance/dollar is pretty good.

[Misanthrope]

I say spot on for gaming: Nothing overkill: 290x paired with 4440 and an ssd for storage, all other parts cheapest around. Some say I should be going for a better monitor (I'm on 1080p 50-60hz panel only) But I feel newer titles like Witcher 3 can suffer of non consistent 50 to 60 FPS minimum otherwise

[Manswaggle]

10$ i7 2600k, $80 board(regrets), $80 psu, $250 R9 290, $60 case, $55 HDD, free RAM(16gb), think I'm doing pretty good.

[LeopardChurch]

My pc being the first one that I ever built for my self  does perform as I would expect it to, but beign the first one that I ever designed, I highly doubt that its price to performance is any good,
I spent roughly 2 thousand back on early 2013 for my rig and I have three great regrets: buying a mid tower case, overshooting the PSU and the 660TI.

 

Can anyone tell me if the price to performance of my rig would be any good? ( I expect it to not be)

Also, would anyone be kind enough to mention how one does determine how good the price to performance ratio is?

[App4that]

I was very careful not to buy what was the newest, but what would perform the best for the money. Might mean upgrades a little sooner down the road but I built my PC to run one game specifically so that's not a huge concern for me.

[Midnitewarrior4]

i bought last year and it was a decent deal, it was 1400$ cad when i bought it, if i were to buy now it would be over 1700$ due to the Canadian dollar crapping out, so all in all it was good deal

[flibberdipper]

I've dumped waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much money in my lowly rig. And pretty much all of my other rigs.

[Dabombinable]

Too expensive for the performance I got as I'm in Australia. And underpowered as my GTX 970 is struggling to run my modded Skyrim at a stable 60FPS at 1080p (my GTX 970 is really fucked up-only 1-2 week of good performance before it started acting up then told me to get fucked).

[79wjd]

A 780+4690k is reasonable for CSGO/Dota2? RIIIGHT?!?

[thekeemo]

4790k

1300w G2

GT520

Your call

[App4that]

4790k

1300w G2

GT520

Your call

Needs a bigger PSU

[thekeemo]

Needs a bigger PSU

the PSU was free

[PillowSmoke]

I bought a 4790k because of how gta likes strong yummy intel cores, compared to a 8320. That and I wanted something for playing minecraft, which was the originally the case for me building this rig. My aging 7950 is still quite good for vanilla minecraft, but adding mods in such as shaders, and modpacks make the fps tank. 

[biggiebigs123]

I am running old hardware like 45nm old, but i got it all for next to nothing so i am happy, but i wish i could up grade. The core 2 quad q8200  works well with basic applications but modern gaming, like GTAV is barely playable at mid to low, it's not how much you paid ,but how long it last i would say 7 years and still running is good.  

[BOT Edward]

I would say performance:dollar ratio my rig probably kills a lot of the others in this thread.

 

#scrapyard build life

[Bensemus]

I defiantly don't have a good price to performance pc. It gets even worse if you include the components I kept switching out for no real reason. But I like it so I don't mind the cost. I spent my money how I wanted to

[sgtheadhole]

Paid $300AUD for X5650, LGA1366 mobo, GTX780, 16Gb RAM, umad

 

Well, if you consider how i got the funds for the parts, it was free

 

Price/Performance = over 9000

[Curufinwe_wins]

lol same here. Its actually arriving today!

On a side note I'd thought I'd share...

Two days ago, I had my computer on showing friends it and took of the front dust filter (because I was complaining about how dusty my room is...)

I then proceeded to miss the tabs on the case to put back the dust filter and shoved it threw my fans breaking a blade on all three front fans (one broke but didn't fall off and in order to get it spinning again I had to wiggle it off.)

So yea I looked like an idiot... And for two days my computer shook while the fans were running. Just got my replacements today (60 USD later...)

[Maleko]

Was spot on, even two years later it is still fantastic! Only things I have added was more RAM and just added a newer SSD.