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Ars Technica has published a new "Bargain Box Guide" for April 2014. As I'm looking through this I poked my nose over at Tom's hardware System Builder, Q1 2014: The $750 Gaming PC. Am I completely off my rocker? How do either of these qualify as a "budget build?"
I can consistently build systems (without monitors or OS) for far less that these systems and get a quality build that will work for several years of service. Am I just cheap or have I just been broke for too long and can't fathom the expense?
Do you still build systems or have you only purchased factory built units? How would you approach your design differently?
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(Score: 1) by emg on Tuesday April 08 2014, @04:42AM
"RAM is a trivial cost now, max that shit out."
32GB of decent 1600MHz RAM looks to be over $300 now (whereas I believe I only paid $110 for it when I built my gaming PC early last year). I wouldn't call that 'trivial'.
(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Wednesday April 09 2014, @05:44AM
I was unaware it had gone up again. I stand corrected. As of about a year and a half ago it was about $.02 per petabyte, or thereabouts.