Im soooooo scared to press the buy button

Put your pointer over the buy button, then smash your big girl face onto the mouse to teach yourself a lesson.
 
Am in a similar situation myself. Don't know whether to hit buy on the 6950 I have had my eye on, or wait till later in the year for hope of either getting a better card for the same money, or something newer.
 
£1.3k on computer parts? Too far.

You're obviously worried about your bank balance so don't dump yourself with a load of financial regret. Keep your cash and buy a more sensible computer.
 
Why is 1280 too much for a pc? Mine is worth about 2 grand. People spend a lot more on their hobbies :)
 
If you have nothing else more pressing to spend your money on, then fine.
In reality that's a month wages, over a lifetime it's nothing and you'll get at least 3 years worth of gaming out of a PC of that spec. That's ~ £3 a day.

Yes you can save £100 and build it yourself, save a few hundred more by dropping the spec to the last gen chips, but why bother?

If you had a life you wouldn't be here, right?

;)

I felt the same buying a hifi for £1500, but I've still got it decades later, so it's a bargain.
 
Just get it. I spent about that on my PC two years ago, and frankly it's still going strong. If I was going to upgrade anything, it'd be my graphics card which is starting to struggle in games though.
 
Silly question, you have got at least a 24" monitor haven't you?
Sometimes I hear about these rigs and the chump is sitting there in front of a poxy 20" or something daft.
 
I once bought an iron for £40, a week later I go a discount leaflet through the door with the same iron for £30.

The moral of the story is you always find something a bit cheaper after you have purchased it.

Do your research, decide what performance you want for the money, and be happy!

EDIT: for the record, a decent PC has always been about 1k.
 
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