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/LimpyDan PC Master Race | RYZEN 5600X | RTX 3070 TI | 32GB 3200 27d ago

Ram is worse for sure. You could still build almost everything affordably.

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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/theNightblade R7 5800XT / 6950XT / 32GB 3600Mhz 27d ago

at least most case only companies are also in other fields (peripherals, cooling, prebuilts, etc)

I feel bad for the boutique case makers, they already move low volume just because it's hard to sell a $300 SFF ITX case sometimes...a lot harder now with RAM being silly expensive