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I feel like building a top of the line PC cost less than half this just one generation ago. What on earth happened?
Edit: maybe the specs in the comic are just crazy.
The SSD is what’s jacking up the price so much.
I built a similar PC in 2022: Ryzen 7700X, 4090, 32GB of DDR5 6000, 4TB NVME and 6TB HDD; it was $4400 including tax. If you spec the same PC today, it’s under $3K now.
Prices for all parts soared during corona
AI heavily increased GPU prices
“AI heavily increased GPU prices” Nvidia one of the greediest companys around increased the prices of GPUs, not necessarily AIs fault because nvidia is in direct control of their card prices.
Take a look at Intel’s new GPUs, they are actually priced in a way that isn’t fist fucking the consumer.
TBF I misread the storage originally and went with all SSD, so the price should be about a thousand less. Here’s the part list for anyone who wants to check my work: https://newegg.io/6d2b327
You could easily save $138.99 by using Linux.
The specs in the comic are just crazy. The top of the line option has expanded a lot too. In the past Nvidia wouldn’t have bothered making a 4090 because the common belief was nobody would pay that much for a GPU… But seemingly enough people are willing to do it that it’s worth doing now.
AMD also revived CPUs in desktop PCs from extreme stagnation and raised the bar for the high end on that side as well by a lot.
So it’s a mix of inflation and the ceiling just being raised as to what the average consumer is offered.
Is new egg back to being a good site to buy from? Felt like they got pretty crappy for awhile
I still order from them although it’s definitely gotten worse and the website feels like It was designed exclusively by the marketing team and high-up executives instead of web engineers.
Honestly, I typically gravitate towards Amazon over Newegg these days, but Newegg does have a lot more options for computer hardware, so I still order from them. I just ordered an ITX motherboard and SFX power supply from newegg yesterday actually because amazom didn’t have the products I wanted.
Just built a server and a PC and they were fine. I had a couple of delivery issues and they sent replacements no questions asked. Even ended up with an extra 4 TB HDD because UPS fucked up, they sent me another, then UPS came by with the original.
Only issue now is a backordered SSD that they keep pushing the release date back on, but $180 for a 2TB nvme pcie Gen5 x4 ssd is worth the wait, I think.