What is your budget for your next PC?

Poll Vote Option 7. There are more important things to budget for.
But I guess I'll have to choose the "I haven't set a budget yet."

I should get a new pc, I really SHOULD, but I don't even have the spare income, much less plan for the budget.

I don't have a budget for a new PC, but I do have a budget to upgrade the parts in my PC. Like a new graphics card, maybe another HDD.

Am I eligible to vote?

at this economy? i'd be lucky if i could save some for pc budget

I'm not planning on an upgrade as I don't feel the need for one but, $1000-$1500, because a PC is a 5-15 year investment and it's not good to cheap out of something with so many uses.

Depends what I will need. Computer is a shovel I need for work, so budget cutting on miserable parts isn't an option.
But I upgraded two years ago, kinda had no other option than laptop, so desktop PC will be next step in upcomming years.

Not planning to get a next PC for like 10 years. So yeah, didn't set budget yet.

it depends a lot on the economic situation and your purchasing power. Like other users, I don't need to replace it every day. My last PC assembly was while COVID crisis so I spent around 900$. That was not a good deal but I limited the cost assembling it myself and waiting for discounts on every part.
Power security and noise are the only things on which I do not compromise (A tier for PSU and noctua fans). I I also try to reduce energy consumption as much as possible on my configs instead of the most powerful one. My immortal soundcard is celebrating her 20th birthday in 2 years and is still valuable today 🤷🏽‍♂️
Many thanks to RME for publishing drivers across all the system and OS changes and to Noctua for sending for free mount kits for old fan units on modern sockets instead of pushing to change the hardware

Including monitor & peripherals, my 10 year old build cost around $1000 with a mid range CPU (i5 3570K) and high end GPU at the time (GTX 680). During covid, I paced out my next build over one year (5600X on launch and RTX 3080) and it added up to $2500. It was fun getting some parts near launch, but I could do without the early adopter tax again. So next time I end up with a totally new build in 6-10 years, hopefully it will be more like $1500, as I tend to enjoy my mid range CPUs for that long, but I tend to swap GPUs at least every 3-4 years.

0$ still rocking windows 7 on my 10+ year old pc

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i have the money prepared, but im waiting for my laptop to die, also i want to see the next nvidia cards iteration

let me say that much ... i wouldn't have more than half of my pc if my friend hadn't gave me his parts for a reduced price (600€ GPU, 900€ for CPU, Ram, Mobo and 6tb of sata ssd) and my stuff that i bought over 6 years (120€ PSU, 35€ Cooler, Contact frame 20€, case 60€, both nvme and 4tb ssd for 400€) so my pc is at around 2,15k€ ... i wouldn't pay that much for a pc again

I was forced to buy laptop 2 years ago so next major buy won't be sooner than in 4 or 5 years. That being said - I really should upgrade my 10 y.o PC with SSD. Current HDD became serious bottleneck lately even for simple stuff T_T

I'm voting that I don't have a set budget. I would like to upgrade, but frankly I find the prices to be crazy. I was hoping to upgrade iteratively but I still have DDR3 mobo with old AMD socket. So any Ryzen or good RAM is out of the window unless I get a motherboard as well, and thats practically a new PC already...

I did upgrade to GTX1070 some time ago. But I have been gaming on steamdeck and working on laptop anyway. So next step would probably be upgrading to SSD, so at least the current PC works at normal speed. And then at some point start gathering parts for some kind of Ryzen5 build with the same GPU.

Steam Deck OLED 549$ ^-^

I was forced to upgrade last year my cpu, mobo, ram and psu, so my plan is to milk my forced upgrade to at least 2027, but no more than 2029. I'm running a 1080ti which is still good enough for current games. This build is enough to survive the current generation of games coming out for ps5 and xbox series consoles.

This is based on my prediction on console generations and how hardware has been evolving each generation. Along with software improvements, so i got this feeling i can probably stretch this hardware that far using upscalers and 1080p (hopefully not 720p).

As for a future build, i am honestly planning on going full handheld mode. I have a steam deck 64gb version, what this thing offers is just amazing. It lacks performance sure, but it is very possible with a few extra generations of handheld APUs being released, that we might see a handheld that will be capable enough to run next gen games just fine for the foreseeable future. Having the option to go handheld and dock it when i want, while having extremelly good efficiency when it comes to energy consumption... it's just, way too good to ignore.

I originally bought the deck to run emulators but i gave up on the idea for now, if they release a steam deck 2 next year, i will buy it again and make this one an emulation system. I've been using it to complete some of my backlog games. I force myself to get off my desktop early, and go to bed, while in bed i play 1-3 hours of a random game in my backlog, allowing me to slowly get things done.

Currently no plans to upgrade, hoping that my current laptop still has few years of life left in it. 🤞
With prices soaring, I'm thinking that I would have to be looking in the $1500–$2000 category in the future, which already intimidates me.

I don't really have much of a use to upgrade as I can play pretty much everything that I want at 1440p, even if it means to lower my settings.
It doesn't really bother me that much, as my current pc can still carry me through 3 to 5 more years of heavy usage, plus it hasn't been much performance gain since covid, so there's also that.
I'm still rocking my vega 64 Nitro+ and r7 2700, and will probably rock it till it fries. I feel like upgrading it right now for me is just for the sake of being part of consumerism, as I can still do everything I want with it.