Forum Discussion
- Too lazy to upgrade, so this pc is almost 5 years old.
- I have over 5 systems and they vary from Mid range to High end with various specs. I also have an gaming laptop which still fall in the mid range.
- My machine was originally for photo editing, not gaming, my friend built it for around $600-$700AUD, about 6 years ago (maybe more).
I scored it as a replacement for my previous machine that died. It's not fancy, but TS4 runs ok. - Takes more than price to determine machine range. My machine costs about $1300, but has the I7 processor and more RAM than I ever thought possible. An Intel guy was at the store when I got it, and he said the I7 is curently their top CPU, the I9 not being out yet.
- Mine is high end but only about S$1500.
- Reading over some of these I guess mine is more monster than high. But I could be wrong. :D
- I have an HP Desktop computer that I purchased in the fall of 2013 with Windows 8 & just upgraded it to Windows 10 in the summer of 2018. And it's still going strong. FYI I live in Canada.
- i7 9700k, RTX 2080 OC, 16 GB DDR4 4000 MHz RAM, BX500 240 GB SSD but i built this PC for The Witcher 3 and hopefully it will be still good enough for Cyberpunk 2077. I even bought a 1080p 240 Hz screen because i like online multiplayer games.
- I got such a deal on this rig, just this side of $700. It's a DDR3 over the DDR2 I had originally. I've got 8 gig and room for a bit more. It could have more power, but so far, it's doing well.
"Reksoh;c-17221732" wrote:
I feel like the way this poll is categorized kind of works against its purpose. For starters, I would say a "Monster" PC could be in the $2,000-$2500 dollar range easily. I would call a mid range something around $1,000, and lower end probably around $500 ish or below.
But categorizing by price doesnt make much sense in the first place because a machine that cost $2,000 a year ago is definitely not the same as a machine that cost $2,000 a week ago yet both of these kinds of people will vote in the same category. This is further complicated by the fact that those on laptops will be paying a higher premium for performance than desktop buyers are. So someone who spent 3k on a laptop might have a system that's even worse than a $1500 desktop. And, those who buy desktops are paying a higher premium for performance than those who build their desktops are. On top of that... someone could build a PC that a company might sell for $3k plus but only spend $2k on it. Money spent is just not a good indicator of how good someone's system is.
Good point. My laptop was expensive, but it's also old now because I've had it for years.
