The perfect budget?

JonJ678 · 22 Aug 2010 at 22:26

Periodic upgrades are better than buy-and-forget imo. 500 quid a year rather than 2k every four.

Redmint · 22 Aug 2010 at 22:50

£953.

jon - true, however you can't upgrade if you don't have a PC to begin with.

SeraphX · 22 Aug 2010 at 22:51

at least 800 for a ideal system, not including monitors or peripherals

JonJ678 · 22 Aug 2010 at 23:07

Redmint said:
you can't upgrade if you don't have a PC to begin with.

its probably difficult to come up with one for 500 that would suit the rolling upgrade plan too. Otherwise it makes sense though

TheCenturion · 22 Aug 2010 at 23:07

£1013.56

and 26 000 $ Ugandan on the side

Redmint · 22 Aug 2010 at 23:10

anant_shah94 said:
£1013.56

and 26 000 $ Ugandan on the side

Feels like this is turning into 'The Price is Right'.

reiyushin · 22 Aug 2010 at 23:25

To date the perfect budget is:

£10,260.98 + Watercooling + Furniture ^^

Essexraptor · 22 Aug 2010 at 23:58

I've just completed a build for £700 for a mid range gaming rig including keyboard, mouse and OS

no monitor but the guy I built it for already has one

FoxEye · 23 Aug 2010 at 00:18

I try not to spend more than £500. £200-£250 for the cpu/mobo/ram, and whatever's left on whatever's left

That's not including a monitor, ofc.

That's what I'd call mid-range. £700 is pushing it to be called mid-range, you might as well call that the beginning of enthusiast territory, since you can get 2 or 3 gaming consoles for that price.

gatecrasherlok · 23 Aug 2010 at 00:21

Without peripherals and monitors, the most ideal budget for a well rounded rig would be around 800-900 imo.

FPS Addict · 23 Aug 2010 at 00:28

I would say the perfect gaming rig budget is £1500. It is expensive but if you save up it will be all worth it, plus £1500 does go far today in terms of future proofing, potentially a 1,5k pc can last you 1- 1.5 years without any GPU upgrades

Madals · 23 Aug 2010 at 16:15

well so far there are 2 main schools of thought - 800 and 1200-1500.
So lets limit it to those two at the moment and compare what the more expensive one will give you the cheaper one wont!

Murdin999 · 23 Aug 2010 at 16:23

FPS Addict said:
Potentially a 1,5k pc can last you 1- 1.5 years

I would say it would last a lot longer than 1-1.5 years depending on how fps crazy you are, if you absolutely must have the highest quality with the best fps sure, but if you happy with still decent quality they can last a lot longer.

Hell i paid 1k for my old PC in 2006, 8800GTX and stuff and it happily lasted and played all the games i wanted until about 1 month ago

But for me, the perfect PC budget would be between 1.2k-1.5k depending if you opt for AMD or Intel

vectisitch · 23 Aug 2010 at 16:46

how about turning this round now ans ppl stating what would be their perfect build.that should get ppl salivating

JimboJet · 23 Aug 2010 at 17:04

800, allows for 64Mb SSD, reasonable Graphics (460GTX 1gb), some OC potential.