Yeah. that's pretty much what I found, since most of the critical components (CPU, mobo, hdd, psu or psu w/case, cpu cooler) are around $50-60 for something a couple years behind modern, and stepping back to 5yrs behind is what I ended up doing. Buying them one part at a time doesn't sound like a really practical idea, though, given how things aree always slipping to a lower price point as he latest and greatest displaces them, and ones that have reached the bottom end of profitability like what I'm looking at are taken out of production.
There'll always be something better in six months, so better to put the money in jam jars labeled by component and stack those in the cabinet, I'd say. The only real exception I'd make there is on a case, if there's one that serves the purpose and you also really like the look of, because a box is a box but fashions come and go.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
There'll always be something better in six months, so better to put the money in jam jars labeled by component and stack those in the cabinet, I'd say. The only real exception I'd make there is on a case, if there's one that serves the purpose and you also really like the look of, because a box is a box but fashions come and go.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows