I ' d say on a budget , $ 4500 might do the trick . I spent $ 600 for mine but I bought some stuff I really didn ' t need . Like an SSD , a nicer case and a high storage hard drive . Disclaimer I have only built 1 computer and only know enough about me to build em <| sep |> Chattel slavery ? Jim Crow ? Sharecropping debt slavery ? Black penal colonization in Reconstruction South which was slavery ? Filipino genocide ? Tuskegee experiment ? Internment camps ? Operation Condor and other political meddlings in Latin America , Africa , and the Middle East ? Mass surveillance ? Police brutality ? And even today , American mass incarceration is worse than any other country and is essentially the equivalent to the Soviet Gulag system . Vietnam and Iraq , both of which were pointless wars based on lies , resulted in millions of dead civilians .