How much did you pay for your gaming PC?

[s1mplehumar]

About $1800, almost two years ago. Definitely more than necessary for the power, but the SSD was pricey at the time (well over $200), case was pricey, cooler was pricier than needed, so was the RAM, etc.

i7 950 w/ Corsair H50 cooler
ASUS Sabertooth X58
6GB Corsair Dominator memory
Sapphire Radeon HD6870 1GB
LG Blu-ray burner
Silverstone Raven RV02
PC Power & Cooling Silencer MkII 750W
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB
Windows 7 x64 OEM

Technically more if you count the three HDDs in it, monitors, input devices, amp/speakers, etc...but for the particular build that was about it.

Considering a GTX 670 if I run into enough games that'd benefit me on.

I can dig it.

I'm still waiting for a substantial drop on SSD. Black Friday here I come!

[MrPopo]

Mine was $1500 5 years ago. I don't have all the specs handy, but the key parts were a mid-high Core 2 Duo, a GTS 8800 GTS 640 MB, and 4 GB RAM. The only thing I've touched is I've upgraded the two HDDs to 2 TB HDDs.

I've now reached the point where a game is coming out and I think I need to upgrade, but I've been trying to hold off until I can get at least a 1 TB SSD (for my system drive) for a reasonable price. If prices drop to $0.50/GB I'd be happy.

[Cronozilla]

HDD prices also aren't going down :\

Well, all those factories got flooded. Even if they've rebuilt, the costs and time lost from that will be passed on.

I know.
Doesn't make it better at the consumer level. It significantly effects the cost of a machine.

I would be worried that if sales stay consistent they may have no actual incentive to get the prices back down.

[J T]

I spent $879 on my laptop back in November.

This guy spent $30,000 though:
http://kotaku.com/5925071/this-is-what- ... looks-like

[ZeroAX]

700€ about 2 years ago and all games still play like a charm with high graphical settings .

Though I guess the "heaviest" games I've played are Civ V and Shogun 2. Everything else is console ports (hardly push the PC, when they are made to run on 7 year old tech) and retro games

[BananaXX]

Probably put upwards of $900 into my computer over the years.

[irixith]

I'm generally with Hobie, rolling upgrades until the hardware simply can't be upgraded any more. For example, my last machine was a Pentium D 3.2 with a Radeon 4890 and 4GB of RAM. It's been passed on to my brother because it still works fine and plays most games fine, even if it could heat a small house while it's running.

My new machine is a Core i7 2600k clocked at 4.4ghz with 16GB of RAM. The case, board, cpu, memory, heatsink, power supply, hard drive and dvd burner set me back just over $600 Canadian dollars. I haven't yet decided what graphics card to plonk in there. Probably a GTX 670 when funds permit. The HD 3000 graphics included with the i7 are sufficient for a lot more games than you'd think though!

I actually game a lot more with a laptop these days -- I've got a Core i5 w/Radeon 5730 and a Core i3 w/GeForce 540M that take care of most things. That's solely due to cost at the time -- the i5 was $400 on clearance, and the i3 only $360. They aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, so I can't wait to fully flesh out the i7 beast. The plan is to get a proper graphics card in there before Borderlands 2.

[s1mplehumar]

The plan is to get a proper graphics card in there before Borderlands 2.

That there is some smart talk. Speaking of Hobie, we're Borderlands freaks, so feel free to join us come mid September.

[isiolia]

I'm generally with Hobie, rolling upgrades until the hardware simply can't be upgraded any more.

Definitely works. Usually I wind up doing a fresh build because I intend to repurpose or give away my current machine. My Core2Duo is now my server, the Opteron machine I had before that I gave to a friend (plus the 4850 I had in the C2D), prior to that my old machines tended to get used as my HTPC. A few years ago I bought parts specifically for the HTPC though, and will probably upgrade it directly to keep things low(er) power/noise.

[ZenErik]

My Zenbook Prime was $1000.

1.7GHz i5-3317U
4GB RAM
128GB SandForce SSD
Intel HD 4000
13" IPS Full HD 1920x1080

Plays almost all doujin and indie games perfectly. Can't say that it's ideal for games from larger studios, but I don't play many of those anyway.