Suppose you have 4.000 dollar/euro/whatever your currency is, to blow on a pc

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soulsamurai said:

superchunk said:

I'd build one for  less than $1000 and use the other $3000 on something worth while.

 

However, in your fictional tale, I'd toss out the HDDs and go with SSDs only. Don't need many TBs of storage, but fast-durable storage is better.
Toss out the Bluray drive and not replace with nothing. At this point I think media drives on a PC are worthless.
Toss out the audio card. MOBO audio is good enough.

Absoluetly not......get a good sound card....get astro REAL surround sound head set or something of equal qaulity....not that bulshit emulated surround.....

It's not a small difference....it's a big difference....you will think you are firing a real gun...

I wish Creative didn't destroy Aureal A3D, arguable the pinnicle of PC sound.

PC's are naturally a noisy place though, even a cheap sound card can have benefits, but not everyone cares about Audio quality or have a decent set of speakers anyway, on-board audio is perfectly fine for the majority of users.