That's easy, what computer specifications do you have? And how long time can you use your pc to survive without buying a new one? Tag along, for me it took about 2 ½ years until it was time to turn over with the pc and buy as a present on my birthday. I was restless all the time, I had no computer in almost 2 months and do you know how it feels to retire back with a new computer?, Amazing when you get rid of the old one you are lucky..
Ordinary it takes about 1 week and you feel that your pc goes slow again, so those guys who play it safe possibly maybye spend about 2000 $ on monstermachines to be proud and prove that they are real gamers and so on.
Here is mine pc specs:
(SCALEO)
Intel Pentium 3.2 ghz (DualCore)
1 Gigabyte DDR2 ram 400mhz
Ati Radeon X600se 256mb
Soundblaster Live 2.0 Audigy 5.1
2x Hd's with a capacity on completly 320 Gig
4 Usb drives
1 DVD-RW 16x
No floppy drive
* Siemens Laser Mouse
* Siemens keyboard
* Siemens LCD screen with 19x size running on 1024x768 (32 bit)
* Wireless Sony Headphones (black)
* 5.1 Surround speaker sattelite set with a big subwoofer
(extra's)
*Mp3 Audio u2 512mb
That was all!