Bauen Sie jetzt keinen PC. Einfach nicht
https://gizmodo.com/do-not-build-a-pc-right-now-prices-out-of-control-2000694774
Bauen Sie jetzt keinen PC. Einfach nicht
https://gizmodo.com/do-not-build-a-pc-right-now-prices-out-of-control-2000694774
44 Kommentare
COVID, Bitcoin, AI. The hits keep coming.
I bought a Mac. I’m not going to need a PC really ever again.
I’ve been considering it for a while, but based solely on this headline I won’t
This isn’t even „shortage“ yet, it’s pre-shortage in a lot of cases. These companies are marking up existing inventory rather than just selling out at their normal price and then hanging an „out of stock“ sign. It’s pure predatory behavior.
So I should wait until prices go even higher on all of the other parts? Um, no.
looks like prebuilt mini pcs like steam machine are probably the future for gamers now.
Shortage? Lol. Wait for the ai crash and you’ll find great deals not on components, but entire data centers.
But I guess I’ll stick with my 4-year-old gaming laptop
So glad I built mine last year, I guess I got lucky before all the AI shit went haywire now look where we are…
Microsoft is fucked. Consider this situation in relation to MS asking 250 million people to throw away their existing computers so that they can upgrade to Windows 11.
There hasn’t been a good time to build a PC in 6 years. My PC is 8 years old now and dying a slow death. One of the RAM slots died, so I’m down from 32 to 24GB. My PC can’t run my 4K monitor anymore so I’m stuck using 2×1080 monitors. I blue screen often enough that I am cautious about what games I bother to play on it (games without frequent autosaving are a no go). And I am down 2 horizontally mounted fans.
I am surprised I can still do *anything* with it at this point, but it’s hanging it there as long as it can.
At a pawn shop last week they had an Alienware with a 3060, 64GB RAM, and an i7 for $400. I probably should have bought it, huh?
This iteration I started with an HP 40L with 32GB RAM and a builder-grade M.2 SSD and some builder-grade HD. Since then, when prices were right, I did the following: I7 became I9;water cooling upgraded; replaced original memory with 64GB; filled the bays with SATA SSDs; replaced the builder-grade PSU with something much better. The only original parts remaining are the motherboard and the case. It is tuned to death and simply screams.
Point? Well-timed in-place upgrades should be considered before buying/building a new machine. As with life – timing is everything.
Or just do it because this is the best prices you’ll ever get in the next years.
No this could be like the economy when 08 happens. Its just never the same again. I’d buy when you are ready and just eat the loss if prices go back down.
Aww but I just bought all the parts
I’m telling you guys right now invest in a GPU if you haven’t done so already!
The next 3-4 months of tech, just like ALWAYS at this time of year, is complete over-priced, over-hyped, warehouse-clearing shit! If there’s a shortage? Good! Less shitty tech in the pipeline.
You will own nothing and love it!
Seriously. This is their goal. That way everything is on the cloud and monitored. You will lease a PC from them to use and you will be the product at the same time. GeforceNow will be the future they want to sell to everyone.
Prices across the board are poised to triple in the coming months.
Dont purchase now!
Not exactly sound advice.
I did it in Jan when I could see the writing on the wall
Too bad. Mine just died and picked up some parts at Microcenter
guys go buy yourselves an n64 and sega saturn
Costco has a 5080 with 32 DDR5 Ryzen 9900X for $2199
I finished building my PC back in Nov 2024 since I was trying to beat tariffs pricing me out. I stocked up on extra components too so I’m good for awhile. I would’ve liked to spread out my spending, but I guess it actually worked out considering.
There hasn’t really been a point to doing this for ten years. Just buy the best pre built you can afford and upgrade pieces over time. I bought an Alienware Aurora in 2017 that I just now made my first upgrade to (doubling the RAM)
Title reads like Kelly Kapoor from The Office.
Can you just like, not build a pc for once? Gawd.
I been telling my buddy…. Just buy a small Pre Built, humble yourself.
The game is too expensive. We’re basically getting diminishing returns in many games…
For the price of hardware and games it’s very expensive.
Case in point, I make close to 80k a year, have 0 debt. It’s expensive AF
This isn’t just going to affect PC building, but also game development for years.
Game developers will need to pay attention to this development, because if PC and console gamers aren’t looking to upgrade their experience (console gamers being forced not to, while PC gamers choose not to), then there’s no need to make games that require more powerful hardware in order to experience the latest and greatest.
Increased memory prices means people will stick with their current platforms (DDR4 or DDR5) rather than upgrade, but that will also include not upgrading to new GPUs and even storage when those prices increase too much. In that case, there’s no need to upgrade the rest of their hardware like upgrading to a higher resolution monitor, because it will cost too much to experience that higher res with the increase in performance requirements.
I have a 5950X with 64GB of DDR4-3600 memory, and it looks like I won’t be upgrading to a new AMD platform for the next few years depending on how things go with memory prices. The only thing I upgraded was my GPU from a 2080Ti to a 5070Ti. I’m glad I got that GPU when I did. But now I don’t feel like I’ll be able to upgrade my monitor to a 4K OLED, because I won’t be able to afford whatever new AMD platform and X3D processor that’s released along with the exorbitant memory prices.
It’s going to be another stagnant couple of years for PC gaming.
I just finished buy all my parts, I got fucked on ram, I watched the sticks I wanted increase in price every month for 3 months and folded to buy two sticks of 8g for more than the 16g sticks started at.
This is all so worth it. So AI companies privately owned by sociopathic trust fund babies can build out their data centers for the “tech” nobody wants to actually use. Whats going to collect dust after the AI bubble pops if not the data centers?!?
Tricks on you, I can’t afford to.
Better get a new hobby because this industry has been completely full of shit since 2020 at least.
Joke’s on you, I’ve been too depressed to build the pc i bought parts for last year.
Well crap, I was just planning to update my media computer. Carry on little 8th gen cpu, carry on.
At least I can still run windows… Oh wait…
Ugh. I have been looking forward to building custom gaming PCs with and for my twin boys on Christmas morning for 6 months. They even chose to forgo birthday gifts this year to “make their Xmas gifts even bigger!” But then I saw prices and I just can’t. I found a decent deal on some prebuilts on cyber Monday at least….
Honestly, building a PC hasn’t made sense since crypto started popping off.
I’ve replaced my PC and both of my sons‘ over the last 2-6 years. All three times I priced out the components, and every time I realized that I could buy a prebuilt rig with the same components for like $500 less.
It sucks, because my sons were excited about building their own PCs… so we ended up taking the prebuilt ones apart and then we put them back together.
Holy shit the G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory I bought just three months ago at $90 is now selling for $330
I just built a new PC last week. Didn’t have any trouble getting the parts.
Picked up a used mini PC for the homelab and grabbed RAM upgrade while I could. Don’t think I’ll need any thing else for quite a while
I have 16 gb of DDR4. Make me an offer lmao
Sounds like it’s time for Linux.
I had three PCs at work listed for replacement, refilled in „cow still has a bit of milk left in it“.