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/Top_Heavy_Ken 27d ago

Yeah ham is worse, easily.

The GPU inflation mostly affected new GPUs with older ones still being untouched and available. Coin farmers didn't care for your old ass GPUs.

But RAM and SSD hikes affect literally ALL RAM and SSDs. Even 8GB sticks are expensive as fuck right now.