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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, this blows. As I have stated in other threads, my last full desktop build was in 2014/2015.

Now Microsoft is forcing an artificial deadline on me, as I cannot upgrade my non-TPM hardware to Windows 11 (Win 11 sucks ass anyway). So my choices are to run Win10 past EOL on my old rig, install a Linux distro to extend the life of the old rig, or build new. Frankly I'm kinda done with Microsofts bullshit.

I would like to do a new desktop build but cannot justify $4-5K for a commensurate bump in specs.

I guess I could try to slum it with a Intel Arc Battlemage build, but I'm not sure about the Linux driver support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Intel's drivers are actually open and entirely functional on Linux. waaaaay easier to get working and playing games than anything I've ever had to deal with on Nvidia, that's for damn sure.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While rubbing their hands fast enough to start a fucking fire.

GPU prices never recovered. I'm still on a 1060.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I bought an used RTX 3070 when they announced the RTX 40 series and AMD theirs with a 50€ difference. Gaming is slowly becoming a luxury, and now with the tariffs, and Nintendo trying to push games to 90€.... Hello backlog.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm so screwed when my current rig dies...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

BOOO! You won't be able to afford what you're already not able to afford!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

About to? Comparatively it's been up for quite some time now and I expect it to get more expensive as we go. Used to be $1000 could build you a pretty decent PC for gaming. Now? $2000+. And the tariffs are just gonna exacerbate everything for Americans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I just spent $4,000 CAD on mine and I'm glad I didn't wait any longer.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Looks like I'm running the 1660 Super for the next decade

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

GPU brother!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

This is why I built my new pc, my wifes new pc and built a friend a new pc. The writing was on the wall and you had to have been blind not to see it.

[–] PlzGivHugs 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is the US really that central to PC component manufacturing, or is this (mostly) just a US thing? Like, don't get me wrong, I know a lot of these companies are US-based, but isn't basically all the manufacturing and most of the distribution handled elsewhere?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So there's these things called 'tariffs' you might have heard mentioned on the news...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, in the US. Some of us don't live in the US though. Given that parts are made in countries like Taiwan surely the tariffs won't matter much to anyone outside the US?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, but 90% of the English speaking people online are Americans. I presumed it was in that context

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

90%? Not a chance. Even out of people who only speak English as a first language, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand are a lot more than just 10% of the US population. Plus a few other countries that are mostly English first.

Then you have people that speak English as a second language all over the place too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gonna reduce that e-waste... Used prices will be higher

[–] Plebcouncilman 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just wrote elsewhere, these tariffs are left coded like you wouldn’t imagine. If Bernie had done this, the left (not the left as in democrats but the left as in communists) would be carving his face on Mount Rushmore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Tariffs are fine tool but we got a idiot using it so results will be predictable

But yeah overall use could have tweaked the tarrfis to favour us a bit more some places while throwing a bone to out allies other places