13 years ago vs now prices

Back in 2010 my first real gaming PC cost me...

Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition 3.2ghz. £102.96
Coolit ECO ALC £60
MSI 790FX-GD70 £139.99
Geil Black Dragon 1600mhz. £40
EVGA GeForce GTX 480 £204
Silverstone SST-1000-P £138.88
Xigmatek Utguard £45
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200RPM £65
Windows 7 Home 32 & 64 bit £135
Saitek R.A.T 3 £25
Logitech G110 £70
Logitech X230 £50

£1075 for a high end desktop with barely any compromises.
 
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Tired9 said:
Back in 2010 my first real gaming PC cost me...

Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition 3.2ghz. £102.96
Coolit ECO ALC £60
MSI 790FX-GD70 £139.99
Geil Black Dragon 1600mhz. £40
EVGA GeForce GTX 480 £204
Silverstone SST-1000-P £138.88
Xigmatek Utguard £45
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200RPM £65
Windows 7 Home 32 & 64 bit £135
Saitek R.A.T 3 £25
Logitech G110 £70
Logitech X230 £50

£1075 for a high end desktop with barely any compromises.
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With inflation what would this cost now? About the cost of an equivalent GPU?:cry:
 
Tired9 said:
Back in 2010 my first real gaming PC cost me...

Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition 3.2ghz. £102.96
Coolit ECO ALC £60
MSI 790FX-GD70 £139.99
Geil Black Dragon 1600mhz. £40
EVGA GeForce GTX 480 £204
Silverstone SST-1000-P £138.88
Xigmatek Utguard £45
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200RPM £65
Windows 7 Home 32 & 64 bit £135
Saitek R.A.T 3 £25
Logitech G110 £70
Logitech X230 £50

£1075 for a high end desktop with barely any compromises.
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My PC now is less spec than that and it still runs as smooth as it did back in 2010 with windows 11 on it.

FM2+ Black Edition Quad CoreCPU, 660GTX + 16GB Ram + SSD - I assume it’s because of this combination to why it runs smooth.
 
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MatteRB26 said:
With inflation what would this cost now? About the cost of an equivalent GPU?:cry:
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£1075 in 2010 is £1480 in today's money. I don't even know what kind of money you'd need to build a sort of equivalent tier system with today's hardware, but I bet it's a fair bit more than 1.5k.
 
Phemo said:
£1075 in 2010 is £1480 in today's money. I don't even know what kind of money you'd need to build a sort of equivalent tier system with today's hardware, but I bet it's a fair bit more than 1.5k.
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I think a lot of the issue nowadays is actual performance figures for these stupid high end tiers that are almost pointless at times, unless you're either wanting to brag or have the money to literally burn to erk out the highest fps possible.. you could still for example get a really good pc (i.e 3080/12700 ish spec) for £1.5k, which will give you a brilliant pc capable of running anything really.

If you look at the FE cards for example;

RTX 3080, £649 on release.
RTX 3080Ti £1049 on release.
RTX 3090 £1399 on release.
RTX 3090Ti £1879 on release.
The value for the latter 3 cards is an absolute joke for the performance you get for your £. From memory a 3090 is about 15% faster than a 3080, for what was over double the cost.
 
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