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It's not e-waste, but you could build a better pc for the price. This would be under $700 at current prices for used parts. The market sucks, this should be a $450-$500 pc by now.
It's not e-waste, but you could build a better pc for the price. This would be under $700 at current prices for used parts. The market sucks, this should be a $450-$500 pc by now.
These prices aren't going away. We probably will never see $5-600 consoles again, and much less in the PC gaming market. Whether on purpose or not, a 'new normal' is being set in the market. No company will ever give away cheap RAM, storage or gfx cards again. There's just not a good reason to believe they will. Me thinks anyway...🤷
These prices aren't going away. We probably will never see $5-600 consoles again, and much less in the PC gaming market. Whether on purpose or not, a 'new normal' is being set in the market. No company will ever give away cheap RAM, storage or gfx cards again. There's just not a good reason to believe they will. Me thinks anyway...🤷
That's not set in stone. The graphics cards cycled through insane prices, then to flooding the market when gpu mining was a thing. Storage and ram have also had periods of high and low prices. It may end up being different with AI, but if it's a bubble, then you bet prices will go down. Even if it's not a bubble, prices could still drop when manufacturers adjust to the demand of data centers and consumers. As long as they don't manipulate the market.
It sucks but this isn't a bad deal. Certainly better than the Cyberpower 9050 4gb system on BestBuy. The BestBuy system is $50 more but this one has twice the storage, twice the ram hopefully in dual channel for this system, a better cpu and should be comparable GPUs. The 9050 does support RT but not sure how useful it is. FSR4 is probably a bigger deal in the comparison between the cards but 8gbs is also going to be big for the 5700xt. Overall if I had to pick between the two this is the clear winner.
Sucks how expensive everything has gotten, I built something very similar for my son 2 Christmas's ago and it cost me a little less than $500, however I bought the storage used and used 32gb of DDR4 ram, blows my mind that a system with a 5700 xt is selling for this much. Although I will say that the card has been a beast for 1080p gaming, I want to get him a GPU upgrade for Christmas this year but holy hell the prices are nutty, I've almost pulled the trigger on a 9070 GRE a few times but I'm really hoping that there's some sales in November that are decent instead.
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