The gap between 2 and 5 years is huge.
A two year system should be budgeted on the lower end side (under $1000), assuming you plan on upgrading at that point or even just doing a new build with a handful of salvaged parts from your prior build.
But to put things in perspective, if you had a build back in Nov 2007 that could play Crysis at 1680x1050 on high settings (which would have set you back significantly more than $1000) at a passable frame rate (over 30fps) you'd still have a system today that can play ANY game.
Of course, I don't know anyone who would have built a system like that back in 2007 that had the self control not to do an upgrade since then.
Trying to build a system that still plays everything five years from now seems like an exercise in futility since no one knows how software developments will pan out that far ahead. If you were actually trying to do this realistically, you'd be spending thousands on the best possible components available today.
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