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its crazy how gpu prices are making everything else fall in price
That's not what's going on. GPU isn't influencing the other prices.
CPU pricing is very competitive because Intel basically always keeps their prices + inflation, so when Zen 3 was priced higher, 12th gen was priced lower, when Zen 4 still priced higher, 13th gen was still priced lower. AMD tries to move pricing up and Intel keeps anchoring it back down, and then it ends up being them in a price war with sales. Even when Bulldozer was a disaster Intel didn't break change their pricing, this pricing scheme goes back over a decade.
GPU pricing is ridiculous because Nvidia loves it's profit margins and sets them high, and AMD simply joins in, slightly lower but usually with worth performance and certainly worse features, so Nvidia and customers don't care.
Then you have memory and storage prices tanking because DDR5 is now mature and there has been an glut, too much NAND produced when demand pulled back, leading to very good prices as manufacturers take losses.
lol...its not that deep, the price of a asus strix 4080 is the same price of the MSRP on a 4090 rn...its just simple supply and demand, GPU prices have a large impact on what the average consumer can afford...anyways its a good time to buy everything other than a gpu right now.