Sweetspot price range for each PC component?

[minervx]

I was just interested in compiling the data to see how you all feel about these things

[vanished]

Can't answer; there's no $0 option for RGB lighting 

[minervx]

Then don't answer that one, or chose the cheaper one if you have to answer all of them.

[Nicnac]

for such a "thorough" poll it doesn't give you enough choices

[minervx]

i had to draw the line somewhere to reduce the amount of purely empty classes

[Drak3]

I refuse to vote. My personal sweet spot for CPUs isn't there. Same for RGB lighting, mouse, keyboard, mainboard, cooling system.

 

Pyo.

[Guest]

I think it's a good poll, but a bit hard to answer cause I live somewhere where parts are more expensive. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

This question is impossible to answer to be honest, because it depends on the person's use case.

[Princess Luna]

It should have a 0$ option for the stuff that you do not need to actually build a PC, for instance LED Lighting is that for real? would rather put that 20$ on a WiFi card.

[ErrystioT]

5 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

This question is impossible to answer to be honest, because it depends on the person's use case.

I second this. Also depends on the person's budget, their definition of sweet spot will vary as well

[vanished]

To be serious though, I think it's difficult or even impossible to vote foe the following reason: it's complicated and depends on lots of things

 

To begin with, there are three types of items:

• Subjective items that are purely visual, like LED lighting
• Semi-subjective items that are visual/personal preference, but also include an element of "performance", like a mouse (sensor quality), case (room to fit stuff, etc.)
• Objective items that are (almost) purely performance-based, like CPU, GPU, HDD

There really is no "sweet spot" for anything other than an objective item since by definition you're buying it on a "feeling", not because of the raw numbers.

And as for those, it can break down farther:

• Do you consider performance per dollar based on the component alone, or per dollar of the whole build?
• What is your use case?  Rarely if ever does a component stack up against competition identically in every test

You've got the right idea that these are important things that one needs to answer when building a rig, and it would be interesting to see what most people spend on different things, but what they're spending isn't necessarily the "sweet spot" for that item.

[DildorTheDecent]

34 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

I refuse to vote. My personal sweet spot for CPUs isn't there. Same for RGB lighting, mouse, keyboard, mainboard, cooling system.

 

Pyo.

Remember the only processors that matter come from the holy grail of PC gaming that is AMD. 

 

Only a literal Nazi would consider an Intel processor in this day and age. Hence the $300 cap

[Drak3]

Just now, DildorTheDecent said:

Remember the only processors that matter come from the holy grail of PC gaming that is AMD. 

 

Only a literal Nazi would consider an Intel processor in this day and age. Hence the $300 cap

Heil.

 

 

Pyo.

 

 

 

Kappa, pyo.

[Luxanna]

Led Lightning sweetspot: 0$. 

Also the sweetspot for keyboards imo is 100 - 120$, if not even more. 

[Mihle]

The sweet spot on stuff like GPUs changes over time. And I would never say that the sweet spot is a spesific price, I would rather say that it's a spesific model (changes from generation to generation)

 

Also, "sweet spot" for led light is 0. It doesn't affect performance at all. It's only a thing you add on top if you want, therefore doesn't have a sweet spot.

 

And for keyboard, whatever is the cheapest cherry MX keyboard.

[r3loAded]

New or used? :D. I only deal with used. Just bought a MSI GTX 980 Ti SeaHawk for £280 and an Asus ROG Strix Gaming 1080 for £390. That's not my sweet spot as I am a PC builder and need to make something on top.

 

For ex: for the 980 ti the sweet spot would be £250 and for 1080 would be £350.

 

So depends to whom you rapport.

[Phentos]

I personally always pay extra for top quality parts whenever I can, within reason, so my opinion on this is of limited value tbh.

 

One exception being my 1700. I was planning on getting a 1800X but I got a deal I couldn't ignore.

[TVwazhere]

I answered based what I believe the sweet spot price would be for an average consumer in the US, not for my own personal feelings (for example I would have chosen $100 sweet spot for a case since I'm such a case nerd, but for most people $75 is good)

[Luxanna]

9 hours ago, Mihle said:

 

And for keyboard, whatever is the cheapest cherry MX keyboard.

Gateron, Zeal PC (which are manufactured by Gateron  and are the smoothest keyswitches on the market), ALPS Electronic are just a few to name that are generally known as better than cherry by the /r/mk community.  

[MEC-777]

If frightens me a bit that the majority are OK with $60 PSU's...

[Asa]

I wouldn't get LED lighting. 

[Dackzy]

some of the max price points are too low 

[LogicalDrm]

CPU would need to be multi-choice. I would pick both $200 and $300 because it depends on use case. Keyboard... wouldn't pay more than $60 for non-mech but easy $90-115 for mech. There's also PSU which has way too low numbers. In here good PSU costs $120+. With thats being also sweetspot if there's good one at sale. And then there's cooling system and case fan. In optimal situation, case fans come with case. But more problematic is cooling system. What does that even mean? By definition it would include everything that makes PC cool.

[minervx]

32 results.  praise the central limit theorum

 

 

• Spend $200-250 on a CPU
• Spend ~$60 on a power supply
• Spend $25-50 on a cooling system.
• Spend $75 on a case
• Spend $115 on a motherboard
• Spend $400 on a video card (if you're a hardcore gamer)
• Spend $10 on a case fan
• Spend $20-40 on a mouse
• Spend ~$50 on a keyboard
• Don't spend any money on LED lighting.  It's the devil.

Assuming $200 is spent on storage and RAM, this means that the sweetspot build of this community would amount to $1015

[Bananasplit_00]

4 minutes ago, minervx said:

32 results.  praise the central limit theorum

 

 

• Spend $200-250 on a CPU
• Spend ~$60 on a power supply
• Spend $25-50 on a cooling system.
• Spend $75 on a case
• Spend $115 on a motherboard
• Spend $400 on a video card (if you're a hardcore gamer)
• Spend $10 on a case fan
• Spend $20-40 on a mouse
• Spend ~$50 on a keyboard
• Don't spend any money on LED lighting.  It's the devil.

Assuming $200 is spent on storage and RAM, this means that the sweetspot build of this community would amount to $1015

that total is right atleast lol