Quote Originally Posted by Daku_Naito View Post
It depends on what you are doing. My setup is currently around 2500 bucks, and I am doing a huge mod to it that will add a few hundred in tools and sleeving. The point I was making is that it is easy to shell out huge bucks. As you spend more and more the price per performance goes down, but you still get it. You can get two Xeons for 4 grand and a 600 dollar motherboard and a 600 dollar case easy. Then go for very high end ram and get 128 gb and end of spending 2 grand just on ram. Not to even mention the grand spend on 1 tb of SSD storage or the 2 grand spend on a quadro card/2 gtx 690s. Then you have all the cooling to worry about.
I am aware of this haha, me and my other half build PCs as a hobby and for friends^^;. You *can* spend crazy amounts of money, it's not hard... but it is often a waste to do so as average joe won't use the computer to its full potential.