Upgrade vs OK PC vs Dream PC

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Neowinian

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Well, I have around $2k dollars to spend but what should I do with it?

1. Upgrade my awful PC, which I share with my family and have a lot of money left over for random junk in the future

2. Build an OK PC, and have some money left over

3. Build my dream PC, but have no money left over

Thanks in advance!

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OK PC. Always need to have some money left over. Choose the best motherboard that suits (preferably an X99 IMO) and just choose a lower-mid end CPU, GPU for it that you can always upgrade later on.

It's what I always do, make sure your base is as high end as possible so you'll be able to upgrade it whenever necessary.

Neowinian

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OK PC. Always need to have some money left over. Choose the best motherboard that suits (preferably an X99 IMO) and just choose a lower-mid end CPU and GPU for it that you can always upgrade later on.

Alright, thanks for the feedback!

Are you able to spend all 2k on just a computer? Is there anything else you want to buy?

If yes then build you dream PC, if no then still build a new one but leave funds over for extra stuff.

I have been planning on building a PC for around a year, but now I'm having second thoughts. I might want to buy something else in the future and not have enough funds.
Grand Master

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You don't need to build a dream pc, you could spend $1000 on a PC build and it would still be very good. The best of the best can often just be wasting money, anything you build would be outdated in 6 months anyway.

Neowinian

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You don't need to build a dream pc, you could spend $1000 on a PC build and it would still be very good. The best of the best can often just be wasting money, anything you build would be outdated in 6 months anyway.

The dream PC would probably not be outdated for another 1 or 2 years.
Grand Master

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The dream PC would probably not be outdated for another 1 or 2 years.

 

Everything is outdated as better technology comes along all the time, however it still doesn't mean the PC wont do what you want very well.

 

I built a PC in 2011 for around

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Buy/build a new computer good enough to do what you want it to. Don't worry about getting a "dream PC" - get what you actually need/want. Don't spend extra money for higher specs unless you're actually going to use all that.

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Dude, you built the exact same PC as me at the same time (Sept 2011 for me).

 

Still going strong - only thing I need to do is swap out the 120GB SSD for a bigger one which I have recently bought.

 

Great minds think alike! :) I think it was around November 2011 when i built mine. No complaints at all, i've not even bothered to overclock the processor yet.

 

Unless I want to install games on the SSD 120gb is currently fine for me. It has Windows, Office 2013, Adobe Creative Cloud and a few other random apps on with around 30gb free at the moment.

 

I can see why you'd get a larger SSD now though, prices have plummeted this year.

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