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PC Motherboard sales face sharp 25%+ decline amid weak demand
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this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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So.... you're gonna lower the price, right?
Right?
Lifetime of building my own PCs, the price of the mobo has NEVER been the biggest cost of a build
Why buy a mobo if you can't afford the components to make it useful?
Even if it is 10 bucks for a top-of-the-line mobo, people would not buy since new CPU is sold at hefty price, and GPUs, even used ones, are way overpriced to be needing new motherboard.
What is the point of getting new hardware when old hardware (say, 10yo) does well in today's standards while new hardware cost you an arm and a leg?
Can't even by HDD, not even SSD, with today's prices.
No shit dude. Lowering a mobo price will do nothing because that isn't the budget breaker. Never has been.
I've heard that prices of motherboards are decreasing
Who cares if a MSRP$199 motherboard now costs $239 instead of the $249 it did last month? RAM is still thousands of dollars. GPUs are still thousands of dollars.
There is no point trying to build a PC anymore. Run what you have until the industry collapses, and only spend any money on indie games. The industry has chosen to fuck you over completely. Never forget that.
Most of these manufacturers will go out of business by the time the AI bubble bursts and you still won't be able to buy one for a reasonable amount. They're intentionally destroying the market so you're forced into cheap cloud-based devices they can force you into contracts to run.
I will play DND through the fucking post office before I do that.
Does everybody still think the bubble will burst? I honestly don't think it will...
Every bubble pops. It's just a question of when.
Niche products have declining demand and rising prices.
The hobby has been slowly dying ever since the demise of Moore’s law slowed the pace of development.
Used to be the new computer cost about the same and was 4x faster. Not as much fun to pay more for incremental gains.