• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    My new gaming PC that I bought about 18 months ago went up in value by 75% based on its RAM and GPU price and while I’m relieved I got it when I did, that’s pure insanity that a PC would appreciate in value

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      11 hours ago

      I overbuilt built my NAS/container server for $1262 excluding the price of the rack chassis, PSU, cooler and two 1TB NVMe SSDs I cannot recall the price I paid for. B550 board, Ryzen 5, four 10TB Red Plus HDDs, Intel Arc A380, 64GB of DDR 5 ECC. Those listed components are now $3381. When or if you can even find them. The Arc is unobtanium as far as I can see. Of course the RAM and HDDs went up the most in cost, but it’s still like $65 and $75 more for the mobo and chip.

      Whoop, decided to check and I found the SSDs: I paid $60 a pop for Samsung 980 Pros and they’re $240 now. So $1382 then vs $3861 now. Almost triple. The bubble can’t pop soon enough.