That’s a bit less than I spent to build my box last year. Then again, the target box I build is designed to last 10 years. My previous build was 9yo. The only reason it really ‘needed’ to be replaced is because I use VMWare Workstation pretty extensively with my job, and the latest version wouldn’t run on my old box because the CPU was no longer supported. There really wasn’t anything wrong with it. It was plenty fast for my purposes. (sigh)
I think the end price tag was about $1200, and I can easily see it being plenty of computer a decade from now.
For most folks, that $400 box would do well for a desktop. My needs are a little bit more aggressive.
I push mine, with over 400 tabs open across 5 browsers and multiple documents programs, and so I can use up too much RAM and see lag unless I restart a broswer or two, but I go can weeks without needing to reboot. And AMD processors are harder ti find now (out of stock).