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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[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I profoundly dislike the philosophy of renting rather than owning your compute, but with the current price of components, I just can't be bothered to buy a gaming PC. I have a steam deck and a £10 subscription to GeForce now, and with this I'm sorted for pretty much anything.

For the £120 that it costs me a year, I could barely buy a 16 GB RAM stick, let alone a 3060 RTX... It would cost me 10-15 years worth of the subscription to buy something equivalent and there's no way anything with those specs is staying relevant any longer than 5.

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