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Remember the days when 1,800 quid would have got you a top top pc?
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Soldato
Still can get a epic rig for under that... just dont buy Intel or Nvidia
Doesn't make much odds GPU wise towards the higher end - AMD Vega there isn't much in it price wise between that and the closest equivalent nVidia GPUs - infact until a couple of weeks ago AMD price/performance for their faster GPUs was terrible.
CPU wise the x600 and up Ryzen range do fairly well and way cheaper than the closest equivalent Intel CPUs.
Soldato
I wasnt entirely fair i guess, but a 1070/Vega56 or 1080/Vega64 will do *most* game at near max settings and as most have pointed out these are cheap enough to fit in a system well under £1800. No need for those 9900k's or 2080tis
I built someone a similar setup to that except 1070ti and 250GB SSD and was well under a grand - handles pretty much anything you can throw at it fine for sub 4K gaming.
And the RAM price has dropped since then - at the time you'd be hard pressed to get 16GB ~3000MHz DDR4 for less than £170.
About 25 years ago I bought my first PC. It cost a little over £2000 from Dan Technology. It was a 486DX2-66. I think it had 16MB of RAM and a 500MB hard disk. It came with a Tseng Labs graphics card and a sound blaster card as well as all the other usual bits & bobs of the era and a 17" monitor.
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Looking at top end hardware a GTX 1080 TI and 8700K would have set you back about £1000 a year or so ago. Now it's £1600 for an RTX 2080 Ti and 9900K. I'm not saying either are recommended, just pointing out the comparative prices of high end consumer level hardware (the Titan Xp was more but offered very little extra over the Ti). At least DDR4 and SSD prices are lower.
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The pc I got 10 years ago cost £2800 and it was top of the range gaming then I wish it was £1800 back then and 15 years ago I got my first gaming pc it was £2900
Soldato
Many moons have passed since. Shame really. Personally i think mining started it off with high prices
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I'm pretty sure you'd never gave gotten anything approaching top top end for £1800 ever taking inflation into account, our first PC that my parents bought was something from Time and was approaching a grand if not a little more back in 97/98 and it was far from high end.
I remember the days before IBM and their darned take on the "PC" came along..
Could get a PC for sub £100: https://nosher.net/archives/computers/adve_026
You kids and your expensive iPhones and Latte's.. I don't know.
I remember the days before IBM and their darned take on the "PC" came along..
Could get a PC for sub £100: https://nosher.net/archives/computers/adve_026
You kids and your expensive iPhones and Latte's.. I don't know.
You're talking to a guy whos first computer was a BBC B+
But yeah, kids these days 
I remember the days before IBM and their darned take on the "PC" came along..
Could get a PC for sub £100: https://nosher.net/archives/computers/adve_026
You kids and your expensive iPhones and Latte's.. I don't know.
Oh god that brings back some memories, I had one of the zx80 kits, the keyboard never did work right on mine. The ZX81 was much better even with the ram pack wobble issue.
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Remember the days when a 3 bedroom house would cost £150k? Remember the time when a penny sweet actually cost a penny and a 99 ice cream actually cost 99p? Wtf is your point?
Well the whole thread has slightly more point than your post, but hey if it is ok for him to start the thread then it is certainly ok for you to post what you did.
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