If You Built Your Machine Today

[Shuffler]

On another forum, a few folks with recently built machines started looking to see what it would cost to build today. They used PCpartspicker site to run the tab. Many were shocked at how much it would be today. I ran mine and found it would cost $5,168 and change... substantially more than I paid for parts back then. This also fluctuates massively. Just yesterday it showed over $6,000. All that change is the video card being found cheaper today.

How do yall stack up?

[Drano]

I built mine just under the wire before the first shut down and stuff went crazy. 3900x build less a video card because I knew the next gen would be out in October and I'd just wait. Then THAT happened! Still don't have the video card as I'm not paying that craziness. Recycled my 2060. Think my build was like 1500 altogether, new 011-D case and RGB coolness. I'm askeert to even look at what it'd cost me now. Everything I see "on sale" is way more than I spent in 3/19. Hell I wish I could fall into a 30 series card so I can sell the 2060 and buy a new truck or something!

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[Eagler]

 As the 2070 is double what I paid for it in 2019, I wouldn't consider a new build these days

Video card prices are criminal

Eagler

[Bizman]

As the 2070 is double what I paid for it in 2019, I wouldn't consider a new build these days

Video card prices are criminal

Eagler

^ This. ^

Not only the video cards although the bitcoin craze caused a spike in demand. Due to the production first cramped by Covid and the increased demand caused by people being forced to stay home due to Covid there's lack of semiconductors which are the basic components of all electronics including cars, computers, consoles, home theatres, phones...

[LCADolby]

I've got a 10 year old HDD sitting in place of a dead SSD and the rest of the build is circa 2015...

I can't see even brand new replacement like for like parts fetching much even with the bit coin nonsense on my PC.

Literally a Radeon R9 390, an i5 4690k (soft clocked to hell and back) and 16GB RAM holding it together, bet on the picker site it'd be sub-$500.

[Eagler]

Makes one wonder why we rely on a communist country for so many essentials

...all in the name of greed

Eagler

[Mayhem]

If I built my Machine today .... I did build it today .... actually I still have to connect a few fans and get the raid 10 array installed and set up .....

Thermaltake Core W100 Extreme Water Cooling XL-ATX Case
Corsair AX Series, AX850, 850 Watt, 80+ Titanium, Fully Modular Power Supply
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600
Asus TUF Gaming X570-PRO (WiFi 6)
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING
Creative Sound BlasterX AE-5 Plus 32-bit/384 kHz PCIe Gaming Sound Card
Samsung 980 Pro 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4x4 M.2 Internal Gaming SSD
XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen3x4 M.2 SSD
LG WH16NS60 16x Internal Blu-ray BDXL M-Disc Drive
4 (Raid 10) Toshiba N300 4TB SATA III NAS 7200 RPM HDD
Virpil Warbrd Base, CM2 Stick, CM3 throttle, Ace collection Pedals.
Winwing Combat Ready Panel, Take Off Panel.
Valve Index VR

To be honest I have been collecting parts for a year. I'll post an update to my build it's a little different than what I started doing.

[Easyscor]

Mayhem, what are your cooling solutions? And have you assembled that case yet?

[Eagler]

Nice box but your total cost is probably way out of reach for most

Eagler

[popeye]

I just paid $440 for a GTX 1660 Super card, which is about $100 more than the pre-shortage price.  My 1060 died a few months ago, so had to fall back on the Quadro board that came with the computer  and I got tired of playing without the eye candy.  The 1660 is an upgrade from the 1060 and runs everything maxed out (except Environment Mapping) and never drops under 60 fps.  Hated to pay the price, but glad to have the graphic effects and decent frame rates again -- especially in the clouds, the clouds were killing the Quadro and that was the one effect that I couldn't turn off.

[oboe]

How did you get ahold of a 3080?

[Drano]

How did you get ahold of a 3080?

The things he had to do in a dark alley! This is a family forum, Oboe!

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[Mayhem]

How did you get ahold of a 3080?

I signed up for stock notifications with EVGA and when the product became available they notified me that they were holding the item for me for 8 hours for purchase. If I did not purchase the item in 8 hours it would go to the next person on the list. It took 3 months from the time I singed up to the time I was able to purchase.

10G-P5-3897-KR    $809.99    1    $809.99
 
Subtotal:    $809.99
Tax Total:    $67.84
Shipping Cost:    $15.93
Signature:    $4.25
Ship Total:    $20.18
Grand Total:    $898.01

[oboe]

Ah OK, thanks.  I think I had signed up for every 3070 and 3080 model that EVGA makes.   Feels like I've been a lot waiting longer than 3 months.  I wanna say it was last November, but not sure anymore/


Yeah, just did a search on the model number - my notification email is dated Feb 8th:

[Notice] EVGA Product Notification – 10G-P5-3897-KR
Inbox

EVGA Notify <notify@evga.com>
Mon, Feb 8, 5:49 PM
to me


Dear Valued Customer,

This email is being sent in response to your request to be notified with availability updates for product 10G-P5-3897-KR.

You will be sent a notification email once this product becomes available.

Thank you,
EVGA Sales Team

                  
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My current card is an EVGA GTX 1080, bought it directly from them.   So I'm even a repeat customer.   Go figure...

[Shuffler]

If I built my Machine today .... I did build it today .... actually I still have to connect a few fans and get the raid 10 array installed and set up .....

Thermaltake Core W100 Extreme Water Cooling XL-ATX Case
Corsair AX Series, AX850, 850 Watt, 80+ Titanium, Fully Modular Power Supply
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600
Asus TUF Gaming X570-PRO (WiFi 6)
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING
Creative Sound BlasterX AE-5 Plus 32-bit/384 kHz PCIe Gaming Sound Card
Samsung 980 Pro 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4x4 M.2 Internal Gaming SSD
XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen3x4 M.2 SSD
LG WH16NS60 16x Internal Blu-ray BDXL M-Disc Drive
4 (Raid 10) Toshiba N300 4TB SATA III NAS 7200 RPM HDD
Virpil Warbrd Base, CM2 Stick, CM3 throttle, Ace collection Pedals.
Winwing Combat Ready Panel, Take Off Panel.
Valve Index VR

To be honest I have been collecting parts for a year. I'll post an update to my build it's a little different than what I started doing.

What I shared on the OP post was just the computer, no peripherals. No keyboard, monitor, or controllers. Just inside the box.