Bismarck.Dreadnot said:
»I'm still am in the frame of mind that PC's are expensive if you want to get any use out of them.
How much would it cost to play games with decent graphics? Also, how much would it cost to upgrade hardware to keep up with the standard?
I have 2 PCs in my room. My primary gaming PC which cost me.. 3000$
and my former Gaming PC which cost me 2200$ which you can build now for around 700-800$ which plays most games very well on High settings.
You can't get this on Xbox.
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How much will it cost you every 5 years to maintain? or h/e often you upgrade.
Maintain: nothing unless something like hard drive or motherboard goes bad. Then I'd be looking at 70$ for a harddrive, 200$ for a motherboard, ect.
However PC gaming is my hobby. I love playing games at their max. So I will be spending a lot on my PC over the next couple years. My main goal is 3 42inch screens, which will require me to buy 3 graphics cards and SLI them, so I'll need a better powersource, ect. so I'll be spending maybe 5k later this year (after I get a stable job) building my dream PC from scratch that will easily last me 5 to 8 years. I will turn my current PC into my backup PC.