I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.

I went to a pc building shop and the price of 64 RAM DDR5 was over $1000. I could have built an entire PC with that price a year ago.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    One of the commenters said:

    “avoid building a PC right now” is advice I’ve been following since 2017

    And honestly yeah. I guess at this point if you can afford it, just pull the plug whenever, it’s always some bullshit going on the PC Market anyway.

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      I am running a 2020 ryzen 5950x CPU and a 2080TI I got from a closing down sale of a computer store for $700 in 2019, just before the first Crypto rush.

      I dont see myself buying any hardware for performance reasons for the next 3 years. Also not buying new AAA games anymore.

      Small studio and indie titles on 50% off steam sales has been my jam of late.

      • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Small studio and indie titles on 50% off steam sales has been my jam of late

        Oh, same.
        The wacky performance I’ve been getting on Talos Principle 2 has been annoying me though. Wish they stayed on the Serious Sam engine instead of switching to UE5

    • Xenny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I built my PC in 2019 right at the end of the year and I thank the gods everyday. I’ve only done one CPU upgrade since and it’s still great for 1440p gaming. The whole tower minus monitor and what not was probably like $900 at the time

      • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Same timing for me also. Still plays new games relatively well. Especially considering I have an ultra wide monitor