I “built” a “100€” gaming PC. I took home an old business workstation with a 4th Gen i5 that was discarded by one of my employer’s customers and was about to be scrapped, put in 16GB of mismatched, used RAM my boss gave me out of the parts pile, and paid him 100€ for a GTX 1050TI that he had ordered to test something and couldn’t return.
It was enough to run Cyberpunk 2077 on low settings, and replaced my former gaming PC I had duct-taped together out of parts my friends threw away after upgrading.
Those specs are pretty close to the gaming PC I built in 2013. 4th Gen i5 (4670K), 16GB DDR3 1600, and a 770 (later upgraded to a 1070 in 2016). Paid $1100 for it and used it for a decade; even in 2023 I could hit 60 FPS at 1080p in most new titles (with medium-low settings). If I didn’t buy a 4K 120Hz OLED, I’d still be gaming on that PC today.
I “built” a “100€” gaming PC. I took home an old business workstation with a 4th Gen i5 that was discarded by one of my employer’s customers and was about to be scrapped, put in 16GB of mismatched, used RAM my boss gave me out of the parts pile, and paid him 100€ for a GTX 1050TI that he had ordered to test something and couldn’t return.
It was enough to run Cyberpunk 2077 on low settings, and replaced my former gaming PC I had duct-taped together out of parts my friends threw away after upgrading.
This was 2014 so those were fairly high end specs at the time
I think you’d have paid about 800-1000USD for those back then
Those specs are pretty close to the gaming PC I built in 2013. 4th Gen i5 (4670K), 16GB DDR3 1600, and a 770 (later upgraded to a 1070 in 2016). Paid $1100 for it and used it for a decade; even in 2023 I could hit 60 FPS at 1080p in most new titles (with medium-low settings). If I didn’t buy a 4K 120Hz OLED, I’d still be gaming on that PC today.