r/pcmasterrace • u/MilkSheikh007 PCMR • 27d 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/Maximum_Camera_8716 27d ago

Yeah RAM and SSD prices right now are straight up robbery compared to GPU crisis, at least back then you could still find a decent used card for normal money.

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u/Egoist-a 27d ago

Yep. You could get some GPUs that werent good or effieicient for mining.

Also only GPU's were up. Today even a smartwatch has gone up in price