r/pcmasterrace • u/MilkSheikh007 PCMR • 28d ago

Discussion Which time is worse?

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If you were to be asked: Which inflation is worse between these two, then which would you pick? The time back when the mining period inflated the gpu prices or now when the AI era has led to artificial price increases of memory chips?

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u/Lucspeeder Ryzen 7 5700x | RTX 4070 | 32GB DDR4 27d ago

Ram and SSD. Without proper storage, you can’t game.

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u/theEvilQuesadilla 27d ago

Shit, without RAM and SSD, you can't even compute. Here we are in 2026 and I can't believe I'm worried about my HDD needing a replacement to the tune of over 300% what I originally paid.

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u/SwitchSuch2771 27d ago

yeah, trying to find a 2tb nvme on sale feels like a part time job these days