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The cost of building a new gaming PC is about to skyrocket, say manufacturers (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yeah, well, my gripe since covid has been how high end graphics cards are triple the cost of a new switch 2. For just a graphics card. There's no way the hardware and R&D costs so much they need to be that much. Get fucked. I'll wait until another player gets up to speed or they come down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well it can be, very high end computer equipment costs a shitload. GPUs cost that much because people now want to spend that much on more performance.

You can get a cheaper card or use the onboard graphics on the CPU.