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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just 60? Everyone I know has dropped all plans for the foreseeable future. Even those building their first PC.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The other 40% are waiting for the AI bubble to burst

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, the hope isn't dead.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

Dont worry, we gotta wait just two more decades and prices will drop.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

I'm afraid they can continue artificially inflating their value longer than my PC will last...

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Hope is just a first step on a road to disappointment"

After one price hike after another for almost a decade soon, roughly since 2017. There is no point to hope anymore, there will either be some new issues or manufactures have just gotten used to the high prices and will not lower those significantly. Even if they do start to bring down prices and AI shit ends, everyone will run to upgrade their rigs and scalpers will take full advantage of it. This is new reality.

Better to just find a new hobby.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I bought my RTX 2060 for $300 in 2019. I could have gotten an RX 9060 XT for the same money that's almost twice as fast and had 2 gb more RAM when it launched (16gb never dropped in price to msrp afaik)

You can whine about it, but you got double the performance in 6 years.