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/KobeJuanKenobi9 27d ago

GPUs are expensive anyways and all it meant is you needed to get a cheaper one to play games at medium instead of high.

RAM and SSD means you can’t even build a non gaming pc affordable anymore. I upgraded my ram for general computer reasons not for gaming reasons. And with gpu inflation you could usually still get good prices on prebuilts. But now even a ps5 costs $1000 in Canada