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GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [M] to c/hardware@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I saw the lenovo thing on slashdot. I would link the articles directly but they all have paywalls for me https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/24/154202/lenovo-stockpiling-pc-memory-due-to-unprecedented-ai-squeeze

The tariff thing has been astounding. The amount of announcements, exceptions and cancellations has made it nearly impossible to keep up. I think we just exempted brazilian beef and some other thing? Plus I believe semiconductors still have total exemption- sure maybe a GPU has a buck of tariffs on the aluminum in it but that's nothing lol.

I had friends looking to build computers 6 months ago and balking at GPU prices. The prices overall today are just cheaper, unless you were not buying a GPU. CPU prices have come down a tiny bit too.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    I... am an econometrician, programmer and hardcore gamer, rofl.

    Yeah, watching this has been fucking insane.

    I used to work for a major international logistics company, made the reports for C Suite.

    I guarantee you people at my old firm were literally pulling out their hair when the de minimis exemption got annulled.

    ... anyway, as far as PC builds go?

    Here's the best possible bang for your buck, as far as I can tell:

    Minisforum BD790i se, + RX 9070.

    Put that, a 600W PSU, 32 gb sys ram, 1 or 2 TB SSD, and a big ole fan on top of the cpu, all inside an ITX lunchbox?

    ~$1500, and that'll get you over 60 fps on nearly anything, at nearly any settings level, at 1440p. Most games you'll be over 90 or 120fps.

    Its more or less a Steam Machine on steroids.

    ... presuming you are running Linux, lol.

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