How much did you spend on your current computer? (USD)
Poll started by lodle with 2,362 votes and 83 comments. Browse the poll archive.
(357 votes)under $500
(904 votes)$500 - $1000
(798 votes)$1000 - $2000
(303 votes)$2000+
Post a comment
Hot Polls
Your aims in 2012
24,422 votes
How long have you been modding?
23,225 votes
I prefer my mods to be...
13,660 votes
What do think about free to play games?
12,502 votes
You want to design games in the future as...
10,174 votes
Do you own a smartphone?
9,591 votes
How do you set your resolution for PC gaming?
7,567 votes
What version of Mac OS X do you use?
7,222 votes
Currency exchange: Xe.com
could've had that before i pressed the vote button...lol anywho still over $2000usd
I find it much easier just to type this into Google:
100 AUD to USD
2000+ seems a little like overkill, unless it's a gaming laptop or something. 1200 bucks can get you a pretty nice rig that should be able to play anything, unless you buy it from Alienware or something :) Building your own FTW!
damn right...building pc ftw :) builded mine for 500$ runs fine on crysis high in 1400X900
With good part research, a custom built $500-700 computer should allow you to play a good amount of modern games.
800USD and i can play any game on high.
Based on my "current" computer, I basically have spent nothing.
But to tell PierreOfTheFrench what overkill is, the computer I am planning to get (once I save up enough) will be about $3,000-4,000.
^_^ It's going to be SO SICK!
And outdated in 6 months. ;)
Unless there is an amazing technological breakthrough, I somehow doubt that whole outdated thing is really worth being concerned about.
Not necessarily - it depends what he's including in the price. If that includes a 30" colour-calibrated monitor, for example, then a big portion of the cost (whilst the price for that component will drop over time) probably won't go out of date for a good few years.
I just build a computer for about $500. It can play all my games on highest resolution (16:9) on highest settings. GRID, Mirror's Edge, Ect. Crysis... about 30 fps on 800x600 on very high. :P
16:9 isn't really a resolution?.. and 30 FPS on 800*600 doesn't sound that great, but for a $500,- PC.. well, I guess it is.
lol 16:9 is an aspect ratio, not a resolution.
That's actually pretty weak. You should get more.
Around $1000, I just need a good computer that I can work on and play games
mines stock Staples crap, not even meant for gaming, doesnt even have a Graphics Card, has an onboard 6150, can play Orange Box games at 20-30 fps in dx 8.1 mode
I know your pain, I have the same ****** integrated card...
hp media center pc, then added a nvidia geforce 8800 gt oc. Added 4 gigs of ram, does all I need.
I only got an HP "Entertainment" laptop right now, so I really didn't have a choice in the price. Entertainment apparently means a low integrated graphics disguised with widescreen monitor. :P
i have 12 gigs of GDDR5, processor running at 5.0 Ghz, (it was running at 4.0 Ghz but then i got liquid cooling system, and overclocked it), im running the nvidia GTX 295 running at quad SLI . i have a 1200 watt power supply and 1 tetra byte of hard drive space. I also have a high definition monitor that puts out a resolution of 2560X1620.
All for $3000, pretty good deal, eh?
Try again. GDDR5 is graphics memory (not general purpose RAM), and the GTX 295 only has GDDR3.
I dont pimp my computer unlike you guys. Sure it laggs(?) as hell when i play Doom 3 but i dont want to waste money on graphic card every third year.
I've already up to my third graphics card on my current system Nvida GForce gts 250 1gB.
Looking at getting 8GB of ram, two Nvida Gforce GTX 270 1768mb and Quad core each at 3800Mhz for my new system to run Starcraft II Alien vs Predator 3 and GTA IV (Modded) which all ready runs well anyway.
I stil use my new Codegen 825PSU.
Thats it.
This laptop was about 700€. It was on sale - the original price was about 1100-1200€ so I got a bargain :D
It was the last one in the store.
mine cost me $1500 australian... very good computer :]...but it is a laptop unfortunately so non-customizable :[
Just over 1000.
Ohh, US $ haha. oops.
I was thinking you guys built pretty f'in cheap computers...
ye flippin kiwis :3
Best display pic ever.
1000-2000. This was about three and a half years ago though. Next time I am gonna look at building my own.
$600 including the new screen, keyboard, and mouse. It was all built by my moms friend. I can run most all modern games on medium-high easily.
Around $600-$700. Wait for the deals on newegg/tigerdirect and you save a lot of money. I can run Crysis/GTA4 on very high. I can't stand it when people get around 10 gigs of ram. For the most part that is HIGHLY unneccesary and a complete waste of money. Also I don't understand why people overclock their cpu to 5.0 ghz. I mean come on.. it's just the clock speed.
I bought my PC about 2 years ago.. 1,933.32 USD according to the Xe.com website.
Are the PCs/PC parts so much cheaper in the US than here in Europe? :/
EDIT: Oh, this wasn't meant to be a reply.
Only if you buy the parts and build it yourself. Otherwise, they'll try to rob you blind.
Thats what they do in Europe, too. And it works! ;)
2000+ for my lovely pc!
I used somewhere close to 8000 UAH (ukrainian currency).
At the time I bought my comp it was 1.7k USD, now it's 1k, voted $1000-2000
I got my pc for only roughly $800 and that runs crysis in Full HD with maxed graphics gets about 20fps.
Lol I built my own pc cost about 600 hundread and then all the other stuff keyboard screen, spent about 1000 :D 3 years ago, I can still enjoy every new game on the highest settigns :D
HP Compaq D530S Desktop Pc , Very Good ,I Installed A Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 And 3 Gb Rams On It , And A Core 2 Quad , Plays Generals ZH On Highest Graphics And Sound And FPS And Anti Aliasing Smoothly And Fastly. 2000+
gaming laptop crysis at 1900x1200 high setting and a smooth gameplay the down bieing it's 2000+
$500- got me a PC of the from god.
Computer was $430, it's a meh AMD 7750+ and ATI Radeon IGP HD 3200. It's just a stop over though, until I can get some money and actually make something. Needed something for college.
My monitor though was $150, 21.5" of 1920x1080 goodness. ^_^
this really depends from where you come from, a pc that costs 1000 usd IN AMERICA, can cost up to two or three times that much here in usd, too.
1000-2000 roughly ( maybe a bit more ) for my current game-dev station I've got here. You need to look around for the matching parts being not to expensive but of high quality. Then you can get away with that if you know what to buy and build all by yourself. Important are the right components. Lots of high-price stuff is not really better but also lots of low-price stuff if rubbish.
i got a geforce 9400 for about $50 and a Dual Core Celeron processor 2.50 for $60. MY computer runs pretty fast.
Around $1000 - $2000 I guess.
Although it was bought in euro's (€).
No idea what the conversion rate's would've been then :P
€1234,-
Funny number right? That's why the cost of my computer is so easy to remember lol!
iMac 3.06, 5.4 TB of hard drive space....
I actually ordered my new machine today - Core 2 i7 (3Ghz), 8Gb Corsair DDR3 at 1600Mhz, 2x 1Gb 9800 GT and 1Tb of HDD.
Came to the equivalent of around $1300. You'd never need to spend any more than that; my new machine was overkill as it is.
Are you serious?
Only $1300?
I'm jealous.