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[3rd party JKor]

I'm starting to plan for my son's next gaming PC.  I got him something relatively cheap at MicroCenter (open box) in 2019 and he's been using that ever since.  I upgraded the GPU a little bit last year but otherwise still the same PC.  I built a PC for my stepdaughter a few years ago and that was about $1500 all in.  I figure I'll probably need to spend at least that much this time around.  Likely nothing from his current PC will be salvageable.

 

Just curious what the BB Gaming community has invested in their rigs.

[Stains_not_here_man]

Right around 2000$ and was purchased in September 2020. I may upgrade around Christmas so that would be 4 years but at this point I don't have any issues running games with badass graphics settings. RTX3080 has been solid.

[BrewerGeorge]

I just got a laptop with a 3080 from a dude at work when he upgraded to a 4080. I paid him $1000. My previous was a 2060 that was still pretty good at three years old, but the new one was too good a deal to pass up. I had planned to sell the old one for about $500 but I ended up giving it to Bell's girlfriend because they had been trying to game on a 6 year old HP.

I have typically bought at right below the cutting edge. Those are good for three years or so and save a lot of money compared to top of the line systems.I've bought laptops for the last three systems, too. I like the portability.

[Vagus]

About 2k in late 2019. I had an old PSU, some case fans, and SSD that went into it. Otherwise, everything was new. Went big on processor and ram, skimped a little on GPU (2070). Still handles just about everything i throw at it. 

[3rd party JKor]

I just got a laptop with a 3080 from a dude at work when he upgraded to a 4080. I paid him $1000. My previous was a 2060 that was still pretty good at three years old, but the new one was too good a deal to pass up. I had planned to sell the old one for about $500 but I ended up giving it to Bell's girlfriend because they had been trying to game on a 6 year old HP.

I have typically bought at right below the cutting edge. Those are good for three years or so and save a lot of money compared to top of the line systems.I've bought laptops for the last three systems, too. I like the portability.

 

 

He has a 2060 in his current setup but all of the other hardware are pretty aged.  And I bought the GPU while the prices were still high.  I can get something significantly better for the same price now.

[dondewey]

I just got a laptop with a 3080 from a dude at work when he upgraded to a 4080. I paid him $1000. My previous was a 2060 that was still pretty good at three years old, but the new one was too good a deal to pass up. I had planned to sell the old one for about $500 but I ended up giving it to Bell's girlfriend because they had been trying to game on a 6 year old HP.

I have typically bought at right below the cutting edge. Those are good for three years or so and save a lot of money compared to top of the line systems.I've bought laptops for the last three systems, too. I like the portability.

I think the laptop cards are nothing like the desktop cards, even though they use the same numbers

[3rd party JKor]

In terms of benchmarking the mobile cards perform worse but it’s not really that much worse. Maybe 10%? I’d have to look at the numbers again but i was surprised how well the mobile GPUs do considering how much less cooling capacity is available.