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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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[–] 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.