monitors was the bust, then the card can run it
Do you buy lower end computers or do you buy higher end computers?
Any of you into high end tech or high end consumer PCs in the $2,000+ realm?
I spent over $3,000 (don't care to much saying this, but not fun to admit I guess to) on my PC this last time round. It's basically the best you can get for 1 Graphics card (since you can't stack much of the stuff anyways when it comes to multiple cards plus I'm not rich either).
I own a $100 phone though and I don't spend money on TV or cable for that matter. So $50 a month over 3 years alone is $1,800 that I can put into a computer anyways or it pays for over half my computer alone. Plus the fact that a TV can be $500 to $1,000 or so. So that's basically $2,300 to $2,800 alone. I use all this money to put into a nicer higher end PC though, so I'm definitely not rich I just manage my tech / technology in a really strange way.
Add this to as well. If I get a new computer every 4 years (roughly).
Cable Subscription - $50 a month ($2,400 over 4 years) TV - $500-$1,000 No Netflix / Hulu on the side. $10 a month or so ($480 over 4 years) Cheap cell phone plan $35 a month instead of $55-$65 a month - ($960 over 4 years)
$2,400 + $480 + $960 = $3,840
$3,840 - over 4 years alone
This alone to make it easy. I spent $3,100 (around here) on a computer, but I didn't spend $3,840 on the other stuff though. Not saying it's better financially and/or anything like that just showing that I put more weight into my PC and don't have cable or a TV myself right now or hulu / netflix and I have a cheaper cell phone plan. People like to think or assume I'm rich at that point.
I spend $1500 to $2,000 for a PC when I buy myself though to as well so I just took about a third of that $3,840 ($1350) or so or did $1750 (pc originally) then added $1450 from the $3,840 at that point which came out to be about $3,100 for a new PC.
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