So in another thread price of a gaming PC was brought up as it always is and it got me to thinking: how much would a decent gaming machine cost 3, 4, and 5 years ago? What would the specs be?
Squilliam made this post in that other thread:
| Squilliam said: $850 - That gives you Vista 64, 500gb HDD, 4gb Ram, 3ghz Core 2 Duo, Radeon 4850, and high quality Case/Motherboard. $600 for the above specs with a 9600gt and an Athlon X2 2.8ghz. $500 for the above specs with a 320gb HDD, Average Case/PSU combo/2gb ram. $400 for the above specs with a 250gb HDD, Athlon X2 2.2ghz, Radeon 4650 (Aprox)
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So to all you PC gaming people, price me out the following computers and give the specs (doesn't have to be exact since we're talking some time ago):
- Gaming machine for $900 4 years ago
- Gaming machine for $500 4 years ago
- Gaming machine for $900 3 years ago
- Gaming machine for $500 3 years ago
- Gaming machine for $900 2 years ago
- Gaming machine for $500 2 years ago
- Gaming machine for $900 1 year ago
- Gaming machine for $500 1 year ago
Just pretend at 1, 2, 3, and 4 years ago I approach you to build me a gaming machine with a budget of $500-900 and I just want to know the low and high ends. While this doesn't include the monitor and software like Office or whatever, it will include Windows (since I'm a Windows user, just whatever the most current is as long as it isn't Windows ME or Windows XP Home, it should be whatever version you actually reccomend) and a case (nothing too fancy, but something that is nice and including it since it is a necessary expense).
Also, lets just assume I'm in NA since that is in fact where I am and I want to do everything legally.
