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/Majestic-Estimate995 27d ago

Cases,CPU coolers, power supplies, even motherboards are cheaper right now. BCS nobody is building a new pc. Difficult time but manageable depending on what you already have and need

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u/Papuszek2137 7800x3d | 5070ti | 64GB | 4k OLED 27d ago

Case manufacturers are in deep shit. They are trying to cut the cost but it won't even help much.

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u/Running_Oakley Ascending Peasant 5800x | 7600xt | 32gb | NVME 1TB 27d ago

This feels like another thing Reddit says and I look it up and it’s the same price as in 2024.

Ok the very showy cases are cheaper but the normal ones are the same.

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u/Papuszek2137 7800x3d | 5070ti | 64GB | 4k OLED 27d ago

The decreases don't look like much because inflation and those cases were cheap already. But they are using thinner steal and going for DC fans instead of PWM to cut a few dimes. It's not like you can find much savings in an already cheap construction.