I gotta admit. I’ve got a bad case of FOMO right now due to the price of computer components going up. Memory prices have already spiked and continue to go up. SSD prices are starting to go up. At work we had priced some servers back in August, and now the cost of RAM has caused those same spec’d systems to jump 25%.
At home, I’m good with the current hardware (PC w/ 7700X/RX6800/32GB RAM; Laptop with Intel 12th Gen/16GB RAM). But I was hoping to build a PC for the living room in the next year. And buying now isn’t an option due to financial priorities. I feel like it’s only a matter of months before we’re back in 2020 when GPUs were unobtanium. Who knows if I’ll be able to afford/obtain the next generation GPU after the RX9000/RTX5000 when the time comes.
I won’t lie, this is 100% the reason I picked up a new SDD when I saw a decent deal on it due to black friday. I knew that if I was going to add that upgrade (wanted a scratch disc) I would need to pounce on it fast.But I know I lucked out, and I’m not looking forward to all the price hikes due to this hype-for-nothing tech being used in resource hungry data centres.
This is the way. Rather than get caught up in the FOMO. I’m still running an i5 8600k with 16gb ram and a GTX1080 that I built back in 2018.I do all my mainstream gaming on my PS5 and my pc is typically reserved for when I have an MP itch. Even then I’m playing games like CS2 or PUBG and my hardware runs them perfectly fine.
the AI bubble can eventually pop.