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Actually the title of the thread is "What is a midrange price for a build?" Therefore high end should not be your vote.

That was the point as was specifically stated in you read the whole thread:

Definition: Midrange - The sum of the minimum and maximum values, divided by two.

So, to define the midrange, it is quite necessary to define the maximum value in order to "do the math"

I just built a system which i would consider midrange from the Price point of view..But the components arent what i would say Cheap either.
I have 1,434 dollars invested in mine and im very happy with the results so far.
My system specs are.
Case Antec 900 Hundred. $125.00
Mobo MSI P7N Platinum $165.00
Memory 2gig of Balistic PC2-8500 1066 $99.00
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 4mb 1333MHZ $195.00
Antec Trio 650 Watt PS $119.00
Lite On 20x DVDRW SATA W/ Lightscribe $ 45.00
BFG 512MB DDR3 Geforce 8800GT OC $279.00
Western Digital Cavier SE16 HD 320gb SATA $89.00
Im really Happy with the MSI Mother Board its got all the nice features of SLI..Over Clockablity and MSI is Has alwaay provided me with stablity and longevity in the past.

You can built a pretty decent mid end machine for around 1000-1200 $. Especially if you don't mind you're case too much, I think that's one area that you can save money. As long as you have enough space and at least 2 x 120mm fans, you're pretty much in business.

IMHO, it's a range between 800 and 1200. I picked 950 just to be cantankerous. A budget build I'd call between 500 and 799 and an enthusiast anything over 1250, with the caveat that definitions of enthusiast differ, as do needs.

yeah, but what about real work, not just games?

Does this price include monitor, and other items of just the box?

in january i spent 750 on a E6750 8800GT based system although i recycled my Sound card and optical drives from my previous PC and of course monitor keyboard etc.

So I would guess 1000-1200 for mid range if you add in allt he crap I didnt have to get.

to : Ombudsman
Exactly! Agreed!
Not everyone, who wanna buy a PC, want only to play games.
So it has to be from every point of view.
for Example :
1. HTPC build marathon.
2. Office or general use build marathon.
3. Special usage build marathon (sound or video editing, CAD, etc.)
4. etc., etc.

a thousand dollars got a big vote....
I don't quite understand.
I am maybe 500 after studying what goes for 3 years or more...this thread is midrange am I not mistaken?
I would swear I have answered this and disappeared from the net... anyway...midrange pc has nothing to do with that...
back in 2003- 2005 (some parts before then, and may reuse even for a few more years)
*2004 antec2600amb builders case with psu retail, best buy $92
*2005 p4 2.8e presscott socket 478 $136 (I would pay double that even today- thank god for idiots and bad reviews, the price is nice. the cpu the worlds greatest)
*2005 msi 6728 platinum final, ebay (reputable seller, rare against the stereotype I am sure) $135
*2005 kingston 512x2 $80
*2005 msi9550se (since popped) $55
2008 visiontek 2600 pro agp (badly needed heatsink hack) $55
2008 accelero s1 r2 $38
*2005 wd800jb x1 $80
2008 wd800jb x1 $42 (delivered 2 day air mail)
*2005 antec cobra cable (staples) $20
* 2005 toshiba used usb floppy, ebay (company liquidation) $25
*2004 logitech mx310 $35(? not exact price, but close)
*2004 logitech elite keyboard le $40
*2004 nu dvd 8x writer $40
*2004 cheap cdrom $20
2003 apc ups $90

many things have been used before this build, I am under 500, the asterisk was all part of my current build, and even that was spaced enough over time, it was cheaper than all at once. My monitor is 10 years old and being very nice to the HD vids... Hard to put a price on that.

I did get an xp90 and cheap evercool reverse duct setup going in the wide 2600 case (perfect fit, going to my next new system with socket 775 conversion)

machine is error free at 12000 hours (just checked: 12008 hours)
I am waiting for something from intel, I will be sure to announce it when I see it for my next build. For now, I am not enthused at all to upgrade. And my next one will be even cheaper...

single core users should be looking quite hard to upgrade however...

i think its 2000$.

I am thinking about my first home build, I'd say it's mid Range but here is the specs, put together from www.canadacomputers.com

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Ultimate Gamer Case $101.99
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit (OEM) $129.99

OCZ StealthXStream 600W Power Supply - Active PFC, 120mm Fan (OCZ600SXS) $81.99

Seagate Barracuda (ST3250410AS) 7200.10 250GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Drive
$57.99

OCZ (OCZ2N800SR4GK) NVIDIA SLI Ready XTC 4GB DDR2 2X2GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 5-4-4-15 Memory Kit
$119.99

OCZ OCZ Vanquisher CPU Cooler For Sockets AMD 754/939/AM2, Intel LGA775*
$20.99

Zotac 8800GT 512MB AMP! Edition (ZT-88TES3P-FCP) nVidia GeForce 8800GT Chipset (700Mhz) 512MB (2000Mhz) GDDR3 Dual Dual-Link DVI PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card
x2 $179.99 = $359.98

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket LGA775, 3 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache, 45nm (Retail Box) (BX80570E8400)
$219.99

EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 3-Way SLI Socket 775 nVidia nForce 780i Chipset Dual-Channel DDR2 533/667/800/1200Mhz Support 1066/1333 FSB 7.1-Ch HD Audio 3x PCI-Express x16 Graphic Slots
$254.99

Samsung SyncMaster 2053BW Black 20" Dual Mode Wide LCD 2ms, 1680x1050, 8000:1
$249.99

Total $1597 before tax.

Any suggestions before I order?
Thanks!

i would say it isn't 1 number but a range, maybe 1000 to 1600 ish
how to get there?
an mid range should be able to play a modern game at at least low spec
crysis low spec take about $1000 of graphics cpu etc if you include os speakers
monitor...
to play crysis high spec it takes $1700 which is where you start to call it high cost

around 1000$

My vote is that mid-range is around the 1500-2kish mark.

What I find interesting is that if you ask people what a mid-range CPU is I think you're going to get a lot of different answers. Personally, I'd consider something like a Q9450 to be mid-range based on price. You've got a lot of high end chips above it, and a lot of low end chips below it as well as a fair number of products that sit on a similar price point.

Also you seem to have a lot of different ways to calculate mid-range. A couple of people myself included look at mid-range as a price point. For a given component which items are priced roughly in the middle of the pack.

You've also go a significant number of people who look at it from a performance stand point. A Q6600 will run anything that a Q9450 can and that's mid-range performance, so they take the cheapest mid-range performer and that becomes their price.

I also wouldn't consider sale/rebate prices as part of the discussion. They aren't constant and rebates have a tendency to never show up.

As long as it can last 1 year, It's good

Mine was $650 flat, Getting HD3870 in few weeks. Waiting till 48 series comes out in hopes of a price drop on the 38s

AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2 5400+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology + 160GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD + MSI K9A2 CF-F AMD 790X CrossFire Chipset DDR2/1066 Dual 16X PCIE SATA RAID MB + CoolerMaster Unit 600 Watts eXtreme Power + ATI Radeon HD 3650 PCI-E + Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz

Mid range I woudl say is $800-$1000 USD. There's a WHOLE lot of good stuff you can get for low prices that aren't too far off from the high end. That and a decent low end PC would be in the range $400-500.

700-800

Rather than price, define it by performance?

E8400
8800GT 512
2 GB DDR2 800
P35/ICH9R Mobo
250 GB SATA2
500W Antec Case/PSU
CD-RW/DVD-RW
Aftermarket HSF
Aftermarket Case Fan

Battlefield 2142 at 70fps or greater ... on a 1280x1024 19" LCD, full settings.

I just built that machine for under $700. Is that really "low range"? Seems pretty powerful to me.

Budget:
600>

Mid:
600-1000

High:
>1000

I recently built a HD 3850 system for $700, I think midrange is anything that can handle current and next gen games at 1280x1024. Usually between $600 and $1000 for desktops (system only)

rofl thats a lot of answers and a lot of differences in opinion I'd say for everything except a monitor I'd go 1400-1800 with 2100 getting you all of it and a 22-4" flatscreen with 5 or under refresh of course I've only been building systems since my pre-release P2 400 lol you just have to shop around products even if you only buy your parts at newegg a lotta times they will have 2 or 3 prices on the same product or product level!

Ya can make a lowend build with 2 GPUs.

Price wise, I think lowend = less than $1000, mid =$1000-$2000, high =$2000 or more.

For $1000 dollars you can get dual GPUs at the expense of most everything else. Or you can spend a little on alot. At mid, you have much more flexibility and can add some style to the PC. At highend, you can have your cake and eat it too.


Performance-wise, its a bit harder to judge. A lowend setup can get you some GREAT numbers in certain projects, but at the cost of everything else. Or it can be a medicore setup through anything.


I also believe there is a ultra low-end PC. Those are the very cheap PC's that barly meet reqs for todays games at the lowest setting and low resolution. Those machines are not ment to be used for games but more of a internet machine. These are $500ish and less. In fact, the computer I'm typing on is that type of machine. It runs EVERYTHING i need to when I need to, but games.

i think alot of people who posted missed the point of "mid range"

if a system w\ an e8400, 4gb, 3870 etc etc is mid range... what is high end? and for that matter what is low end?

i guess you have to decide first if midrange represents performance or price, or both...

if you're spending more then $1000 on a build, i surely hope it isn't ''mid range''

i think people spend too much i'd like to share what i just recently built

e8400-185$
Xion2 case-90$ w/ 40$ MIR
2g OCZ gold 50$ w/ 20$ MIR
EVGA 8800gt 512mb dual slot 120$ w/ 20$ MIR
seagate barracuda 250g 57$
ASUS P5N-MX 60$
Coolmaster 500w- 50$

So that's 602$ plus 80$ MIR which brings me to 522$ plus tax and shiping and this is canadian dollars.

This isn't a complete build. as far as an optical drive i had a dvd drive lying around.

With this system i can play crysis everything very high AAx2 on 1152x864. I couldn't go any higher res cause i'm using an old crt monitor(if you haven't figured it out i don't have much of a budget for computers)

I think that's a midrange system.

the gaming system i have is considered a high end pc for me. total spent ~ 1800 $
intel q6600 @ 3.6
G.skill 4gb (pc 8800)
2 x 750gb samsung spin point
Tagan A-plus black pearl case
Lite-on 20x dvd rw
BFG GTX 280 OCX......665/2400 mhz cost me 390 after rebates
Cooler master 850watt PS
DFI lanparty dk x48
logitech g5/g15 combo
i already had a 22 inch monitor
and logitech z-5500 speakers (already had em)
i purchased koolance exos on ebay for 125$
Some people might consider the above a midrange Pc, but it was a lot of money for me.
forgot to add i used a sound blaster audigy 2 zs platinum also got that from ebay.....35bux