Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post
RAM used to be dirt cheap, bit went back up to ridiculous prices recently. Due to some flood or fire in some chinese or japanese company. I can't remember the story, a friend explained it to me. May have even been an earthquake or tsunami in japan. But either way prices for RAM and hard drives were crazy. Last time I checked they still were a little weirdly high. They may have fallen again recently but I dunno
Hmm, they are much higher than they used to be. Probably about double what they were last time I put together a PC for anyone. They'll undoubtedly fall again though if the reason for the increase is something relatively short term like a flood or an earthquake.

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Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
If most people knew how little I spent building and upgrading my PC over the last seven or so years they'd probably trout themselves and assume I stole things.
same here. I maybe send $100 a year upgrading. I really never have issues running things. And I by no means have anything close to state of the art.

I use a 32" LCD Sony tv for my main monitor. 22" Samsung for a second display.
Yeah, last time I did any major upgrades I got a new motherboard, RAM and CPU. Spent maybe $300-350 tops and it wasn't even me spending it really. Just asked the parents for some parts for Christmas. The real kicker is that I didn't really need to upgrade anything really. I could still run any game I wanted just fine, but it had been 5 or so years since I originally built my PC and the i5's and i7's were just too damn good at the time to pass up. Before that I spent maybe $250 replacing my graphics card because the old one had died. I never go absolutely top of the line there, but for that price you can get something with plenty of performance to last five or more years and not break the bank.

Everything else, my case, power supply, monitor: they've all been going strong since I built the original computer. I imagine I'll replace those too in the next couple of years, but they've lasted me basically the life of any console, and I will probably get a fair amount more out of them yet.