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I also recently upgraded the GPU in my ~4 year old PC, it cost me only the price of the new GPU and it's one of the only upgrades I've needed to make in that ti

I also recently upgraded the GPU in my ~4 year old PC, it cost me only the price of the new GPU and it's one of the only upgrades I've needed to make in that time. It sounds like you're kind of an outlier in the build your own PC market -- it's pretty impressive you managed to find a motherboard supporting only the old DDR2 ram and having to replace the CPU fan. You also seem to have had to replace the motherboard to support your (likely PCI-E) GPU. Even before I built my first computer PCI-E was long supported by even cheap pre-built PCs. There's a sweet spot around $600 for a PC, if you buy in this range you'll save money because you won't need to upgrade the majority of components in many years. I often recommend logicalincrements.com as it has PC prices per-component in tiers. $150 is insanely cheap for a gaming PC and I don't think $150 has ever been "super expensive" by PC standards.

nickpsecurity 11y ago
"There's a sweet spot around $600 for a PC, if you buy in this range you'll save money because you won't need to upgrade the majority of components in many years. I often recommend logicalincrements.com as it has PC prices per-component in tiers." Exactly. It's the same mantra I've always used when doing computer builds. Incidentally, the last gaming rig [1] I built was about $600 with more power than necessary. :) [1] http://elitegamingcomputers.com/gaming-computers/#2 http://elitegamingcomputers.com/gaming-computers/#2
mcv 11y ago
I'm still not sure whether to upgrade or replace my 8 year old PC. Maybe I'll just hang on to it. It probably won't run the latest high-end games, but there's plenty of fairly recent stuff it still runs perfectly fine.