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- games@lemmy.world
- pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
- hardware@programming.dev
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At this point my main PC is a ‘classic car’ of gaming. EVGA GTX 1070, z170 mobo, 64GB DDR4 RAM, i7 6700k.
First bitcoin made graphics cards double in price just when I was looking to upgrade my gfx, then a wider crypto wave, tarrifs, then a pandemic, then more tariffs, and then AI made everything rapidly wildly expensive.
My usual upgrade process of “waiting for prices to become reasonable around the 5-6 year mark” has proven to be a bad plan for this period…
I nicked myself a full PC upgrade in between pandemic and AI and couldn’t have been prouder about my timing. I was rocking a GTX 670 during the crypto craze just waiting for prices to normalise. Felt like I went from the stone age to the space age when I got my 7800xt.
My primary server though… That one was due for an upgrade this spring. It was my old gaming PC, so it has seen better days.
I mean why build a pc with specs that I could have had years ago for the same price.
40% of gamers: cause I didn’t build it those years ago
Just 60? Everyone I know has dropped all plans for the foreseeable future. Even those building their first PC.
The other 40% are waiting for the AI bubble to burst
Yeah, the hope isn’t dead.
Dont worry, we gotta wait just two more decades and prices will drop.
“Hope is just a first step on a road to disappointment”
After one price hike after another for almost a decade soon, roughly since 2017. There is no point to hope anymore, there will either be some new issues or manufactures have just gotten used to the high prices and will not lower those significantly. Even if they do start to bring down prices and AI shit ends, everyone will run to upgrade their rigs and scalpers will take full advantage of it. This is new reality.
Better to just find a new hobby.
I’m also waiting for a price drop. Since this is absurd
I buy used.
How often does gamers normally build new pc’s? I usually run my builds for 4-6 years, I don’t play a lot of AAA games, but I would not think that I’m in that small a minority. If gamers normally make new builds every 5 year, that fits the finding of 40% considering making a new build in the next 2 years.
I’m a 5 yr upgrade cycle, well was. Not sure there will be another pc purchase in my future. I do have a few old laptops to use for media, and my old rig in case something happens to this one
