Quote Originally Posted by Spuuky View Post
What makes you pick that arbitrary price point? I could almost build a PS4-quality PC for $400 but I'd have to cut a couple corners. My gaming PC was $750 and has lasted 4 years so far. And, of course, it's my everything-else PC, too.
I've always taken statements like this to be nothing more than "PC Master Race" tripe people spew to make console fans feel bad. Your opinion, however, I trust. But I do have to call it into question, because I've looked into building my own PC a couple of times just to save a few bucks and/or end up with something powerful cheaper. And it never works out quite as advertised. I've looked into a few different websites, and in order to get anything "better than console" I end up coming out with figures closer to $700. Cases are expensive, processors are expensive, GPUs are expensive, The cheapest side of things is like power supplies and stuff and DVD-Roms. But in order to be "better" than consoles you need a blu-ray rom now, and probably a solid state drive. Which is also expensive. And if you want anything more on the beastly end, there doesn't seem to be any way to stay under $1,000. Not to mention adding any version of Windows usually jacks up the price a good $70 - 100 out of the gate :/

Teach me. Please. I'm looking to upgrade or expand, but from my perspective it's just cheaper to buy a pre-built mid-level gaming rig. And that alone tends to run around $5 - 600