I dont know how lucky I was to discover the sim "later," because I had been on a console odessey. During that time I racked up 6 xbox 360's on a lan for gaming with friends, so you can imagine that little diddy right there cost me a couple grand
Before this I was addicted to battlefield 1942, but that only cost me $1,000 for a worthy 2.4ghz p4 CPU and $399 for the radeon 9700pro. That computer lasted me from 2002 until 2007
) I cannot imagine a computer lasting me five years now!
One thing I know is we all have to pay stupid amounts of cash for our hobbies, because from a financial standpoint there is no justification for the madness lol.