If he built it himself which based on his previous post I would venture he did, it probably was pretty affordable. When you buy prebuilt is where you factor cost. I had a pretty nice set up I built in college but it's kaput now. I think it only cost me about 100 bucks to build it and it was tops back then. This was before dual quad cores though.
I guess it depends on what you consider "expensive" to be. It was about 1100 for all the new stuff (caveat is another 700 for a video card coming). I chose components that met my needs and were still at good "performance to budget" points. I did spend a bit more than necessary on the case, because this is a piece of desktop art and I wanted something a bit more flashy.
So if 1800 all in is expensive then yes (and I do not mean that to be dismissive or anything, We all have different views on what is expensive). In terms of custom PC's though it's fairly budget conscious. Just the parts for a full watercooling loop can run hundreds of dollars (USD), so I avoided that trap this time around. I also had not upgraded in 11 years, so I definitely got good value out of my last rig
I will 100% admit though, i REALLY want to build a Threadripper full water loop rig and wall mount it. My wife will kill me though if I drop 5 grand on another PC
I'm confident at that cost it'll last you a long time, but that's a hefty price tag. I *technically* have that available to spend on something.... But I'm saving it for a cow. XD (Sincerely.)
Haha, yes I would hazard that for the average person that $1800 is very expensive. XD That's almost an entire months income for my house. My lappy was $750, and I stressed out HARD about us spending that much on it even though I use it every day for all sorts of things and I would have had to spend minimum $400 to replace my last one whose harddrive went kaputz with something equally useful.
Definitely not the 100 Ninja suggested.
It's a good investment when it's a big part of your life and you won't have to replace it for a long time.
My hobbies tend toward inexpensive or free, but my partners not so much, so I don't feel too bad about the lappy. I've certainly gotten the value out of it. It's cheaper than filling my gaming hours with going out to movies or clubs or something.
Understand completely. Of all my design programs photoshop is the biggest memory hog. With my old PC I built I could only run photoshop by itself. My newest setup is just my lappy but I can have all 3 programs open at once. My computer at work is super dope but it kinda needs to be. My only issue is it runs windows 10, but between actual work and solitare it does alright. Still on windows 7 at home and loving it. Not doing much PC gaming anymore though.I really built it for photoshop and lightroom, because I also do a lot of photography. Just happens to be great as a gaming rig too
