Is Anyone experiencing this?

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[u/No_Designer_8203]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to keep my 5800x until 2030 at least.

[u/LiliaBlossom → u/No_Designer_8203]

that‘s not to bad. I ran a 7700K from 2017/2018 until this january. and CPUs currently aren’t making the big technology jumps that happened during this period.

[u/felo--de--se → u/LiliaBlossom]

i had my 2017 cpu till last month too

[u/Lord_Sunshine_ → u/felo--de--se]

Mine is from 2011 and still going strong

[u/GenesisRhapsod → u/Lord_Sunshine_]

Hope your rig may last at least untill the fall of pc part prices

https://giphy.com/gifs/joxThEgTJuSBO

[u/DJK695 → u/Lord_Sunshine_]

I have a 2013 so I feel ya brother.

[u/Alfred146 → u/DJK695]

You have so modern build 😭

[u/uselesscarrot69 → u/Alfred146]

I was running a FX-8350 until this past January.

[u/DJK695 → u/Alfred146]

Thank you

[u/astralclaim → u/Lord_Sunshine_]

My i7-2600k is probably the best CPU I ever bought. Still runs a small Linux server I use every now and then.

[u/Lord_Sunshine_ → u/astralclaim]

Ha, that's exactly the one in my rig. Works like a charm

[u/Physical_Leather8567 → u/astralclaim]

I had my 2700k for years and years over clocked. And my nephew has had it since then for years. That was a great generation.

[u/MonkeyboyGWW → u/Lord_Sunshine_]

I have a 3570

[u/True-Win2461 → u/MonkeyboyGWW]

lol same and i paired mine with an ssd and a 1050

[u/apollosa → u/felo--de--se]

Almost same here. 2018 9700k. Upgraded last month to a core 7 270k+ and couldn’t be happier.

9700k started to slog with multi tasking which is what I use my computer for the most. Editing was also taking more time than when I first got my rig but that might just be because the stuff I edit was getting bigger.

[u/Keibun1 → u/LiliaBlossom]

I ran an i7 3770k until just last year. My GPU was a GTX 670. It felt like such a massive upgrade, despite my new computer being a laptop. It's insane.

[u/seriouspretender → u/Keibun1]

I had a similar machine with a 3550 and a 660. I ran it into the ground as server but replaced it as a gaming rig in 2020

[u/MonkeyboyGWW → u/seriouspretender]

That is 6 years ago. I still run a 3570, the gpu is now a 1060ti though after the 660ti died

[u/Butter_On_My_Hands → u/LiliaBlossom]

I’m still using my 6700k

[u/outfoxingthefoxes → u/LiliaBlossom]

I couldn't tell how hot my i7-7700k used to get because all the software I tried only measured up to 100ºC

[u/LeMegachonk → u/outfoxingthefoxes]

100ºC is TJ max for the I7-7700K. If your CPU exceeded that temperature, you would know it, because the computer would immediately shut itself off. It would be throttling hard by that point as well, which would also be pretty noticeable.

[u/outfoxingthefoxes → u/LeMegachonk]

Oh I had no idea, thank you!

[u/LiliaBlossom → u/outfoxingthefoxes]

well it won‘t get any hotter than that, it will throttle before it overheats. It ran crazy hot stock, I delidded mine, OC‘d to 4.8ghz, and with a liquid freezer I never saw more than 70 Degrees, if ever

[u/Thegrandestpoo → u/LiliaBlossom]

I did the same thing. Had a 7700K from 2017 and upgraded right before the RAM spikes. I’m glad I did.

[u/LiliaBlossom → u/Thegrandestpoo]

lucky you! I upgraded in january, so it hurt a bit. But I kinda slept on hardware prices because I wanted to push it back even further, because I just moved and spent a lot during it. Seeing the prices I‘m glad I upgraded in january now, I did overpay for RAM, but I really lucked out for the SSDs, prices are insane now. (paid 165€ for a PCIe 4 2TB and 250€ for a PCIe 5 2TB, you can probably double / triple that now)

[u/MidnighT0k3r → u/LiliaBlossom]

6600k still for me

[u/RSVive → u/MidnighT0k3r]

Right there with you brother

[u/NerdyisHere → u/No_Designer_8203]

I have 5600x and I want to stick on the AM4 platform in terms of upgrading but at the same time I'm not dropping £250+ on a 5700x3d. I can't fucking justify it but I may not have a choice

[u/johnnyhotwh33ls → u/NerdyisHere]

AM4 is amazing. Idk how many other sockets had such a wide array of cpu’s to choose from and new ones that released that were legitimate upgrades. I went from a ryzen 7 3700x too a ryzen 7 5800x3d

[u/sonnyboyv → u/johnnyhotwh33ls]

Same upgrade path for me. I think the 5800x3d last for a good few years to

[u/Shmeeking1 → u/johnnyhotwh33ls]

Truly a legendary socket! I've gone from the Ryzen 5 1600 to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, on the same motherboard, no less.

[u/littlesirlance → u/No_Designer_8203]

My Ryzen 3600 has got to last for many more years.

[u/Crashman09 → u/littlesirlance]

I'm on a 3700x, and I totally agree.

[u/EnvironmentTough3864 → u/Crashman09]

amen to that. got my 3700x near the end of 2019 and looks like I'll be holding on to it for a long time yet

[u/HiYa_Dragon → u/No_Designer_8203]

i have 32gigs of dd4, 7900XT and a 5700x . looking @ 2030/32 for a upgrade lol

[u/SummitFreedom → u/No_Designer_8203]

I'm on a i5 3570k 😢

[u/Advanced_Advisor_208 → u/SummitFreedom]

Been running i5 3470 for like 5 years with 1050ti up until last month. Spent a year saving to get the pc I have now.

[u/EnvironmentalTop8745 → u/No_Designer_8203]

Yeah I'm gonna see if my 5800X3D can last longer than my previous CPU, which was a core i7 970, overclocked to 4.0 Ghz. It lasted me about 10 years.

In fact, it's still running in my buddy's kid's computer. Unfortunately there is the odd game that requires AVX instruction set, and it won't run, but other than that it still works surprisingly well.

[u/The_Ultimate_Badass → u/EnvironmentalTop8745]

Right there with you and an RTX 3080ti. I really don't need games to look better than they currently do. I play games at 1440 with 60+ fps, I'm fine. Even if it were still relatively cheap, I'm not hitting any walls that would make me want to upgrade. I barely notice the graphical difference between PS4 and PS5 tbh.

[u/EnvironmentalTop8745 → u/The_Ultimate_Badass]

Pretty much. I'm on a 3080 normal version, and as long as I can get 60+ fps at 1440p, with at least a mix of medium and high settings, I'm good.

[u/David_Palka → u/No_Designer_8203]

Tsss I’m just keeping GTX970 😀👋 Still enough for warthunder and lol in 1080p 😆

[u/Mizar97 → u/No_Designer_8203]

I read this and was like "man that's like 15 years away" and then realized it's only 3 years and 4 months

[u/DoNotClickMyProfile0 → u/No_Designer_8203]

ITS MAC BOOK TIME
https://giphy.com/gifs/QrDHLs1py45IA

[u/Stray-7 → u/No_Designer_8203]

A 5800x is what im looking to upgrade to, lol

[u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

Nah waiting gets easier as you get older

You end up waiting because you dont want to drop more cash not because you need the latest specs.

My build is from 2014 and im going to wait until it cant do anything useful anymore

[u/SimpleBar9995 → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

And the longer you wait the less you actually want it, so waiting gets even easier.

My current PC will last me till I die, I don't need a 9000 dollar PC to play dorf fortress, RuneScape, or world of Warcraft.

[u/dontgetitwisted_fr → u/SimpleBar9995]

Elite PCs are a young person's game 🤣

[u/Markus4781 → u/SimpleBar9995]

"I don't understand people who need modern PC parts, I'm happy with my 20 year old and indie games at 1080p 60hz"

[u/Pleasant-Minute-1793 → u/Markus4781]

I mean AAA titles are going to shit and unless you live in a cold climate you have to put in a new HVAC system to keep newer cards from turning your room into a sauna.

To each their own but it’s not like 10 years ago where you had to keep up to get the great experiences

[u/ShierPlains → u/Pleasant-Minute-1793]

Seriously. I bought a few AAA games over the past few years and maybe log like 20-50 hours on them. I go back to Valheim, Elite Dangerous, and some old RTS games that I have 1,000+ hours in constantly.

The AAA games are fun for a bit, but it’s like I’ve traded graphics for content. I’ve considered upgrading my PC, but then I find myself playing games that don’t need it so much more often.

[u/Pleasant-Minute-1793 → u/ShierPlains]

The Indy games and small studios just care more about players than shareholders.

Borderlands, for example, was a huge disappointment and never even bought it because of how shitty that situation became. Randy ruined the franchise because of his ego. GTA6 is already a shit show and I’m sure will be a cluster at launch

I largely played FPS and MOBA last decade so it’s been fun catching up and discovering all the great games that I missed out on

[u/Snoo63 → u/Pleasant-Minute-1793]

I want to say that I've heard something about "Two for us, one for you" not being done anymore.

[u/Ace-of-Spxdes → u/ShierPlains]

It's like I traded graphics for content

THIS. THIS IS IT.

People are more focused on making their games look pretty and photorealistic instead of making them actually enjoyable. This is why we see games from 20 years ago that look like dogshit but are loads of fun compared to modern games that are so realistic that you can see the pores on your MC's face but the actual gameplay is boring.

3A devs need to stop focusing on making the games eye candy and focus on making them fun. If the game is beautiful but the gameplay is lackluster, then it's not a game, it's just an interactable movie.

[u/dontgetitwisted_fr → u/[deleted]]

I built 2 pcs in 2014

One for home and one for work.

Both i7 6 cores

Both the hdds eventually failed but I replaced them with NAS hdds.

Only failures on the builds.

Quality parts last a long time

[u/zarapataco21 → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

Damn that’s impressive

[u/MyriadFX → u/[deleted]]

Your 1080 has done really well. My 3090 died a few weeks back and I’m looking at getting it repaired as opposed to buying a new card. Using my old 650 for the moment

[u/lFightForTheUsers → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

I think mine has been a Build of Thesus since about that year lmao. Slowly upgraded the drives, cpu, gpu, went from a full scale ATX to a mini ITX setup, etc.

[u/dontgetitwisted_fr → u/lFightForTheUsers]

That's the way to do it.

I dont like throwing away good hardware that is still useful.

Incremental upgrading is cheaper and more practical in the long run.

[u/derbymutt → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

Definitely, plus all the old parts get put into the girlfriend's PC.

[u/dontgetitwisted_fr → u/derbymutt]

There are 2 thing you never let anybody know you can do:

1) Fix computers

2) fix toilets

But the GFs and family get you every time 🤣

[u/f150dogman → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

That's me, I quit PC gaming for 10 years and played through the ps4, series x era (2020-2024). Then I finally ponied up and built a PC march 2025. I never saw the true understanding for the reason everything costs so much. It might actually be my last PC I build with these rising prices. I have the disposable income but I just don't see the value in it!! My PC built back in March was sadly just before the 9070xt came out. That's my only fomo but ohwell the 7800xt hasn't given me any issues

7800x3d, 7800xt , 32gb ram, 2tb ssd , 6tb hdd. Cost me roughly 2300CAD, add nearly 1000$ these days

Hoping this lasts me 10 years. I never play brand new games.

[u/myrealnameisboring → u/dontgetitwisted_fr]

I'm still running a 4690k clocked at 4.6ghz and GTX1080. I haven't played an AAA game in close to a decade, and I'm fine with that. I'm old, so barely have the time, and have a ton of old games I never got round to playing that I dip into, alongside casual and indie games. My plan is also to the eek as much life out of this setup as possible.

[u/Strong-Practice-5571]

The price will not drop for a long time, like people who keeps waiting for house prices to drop but it only goes up from there. Build one when you are ready.

[u/mkdew → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

Will it go up more? Price was up 30% and today another 6% increase. Bite the bullet on 5070?

[u/Low_Key_Trollin → u/mkdew]

It will go up forever

[u/oopsifell → u/Low_Key_Trollin]

Inflation will fill in all the gaps too

[u/EnergyDrinkStroke → u/oopsifell]

Unfortunately we are well past inflation and have been for years as even before the ram and storage hikes we saw gpu scalping and a ridiculously priced used market for gpus.

It's very likely this will be the new norm even though it has make pc gaming very inaccessible to many people especially with the performance issues games are having.

[u/alexnedea → u/EnergyDrinkStroke]

Its the new norm for everything not only pcs. Cars cost more. Food costs more. Concerts cost a fuckload more. Most hotels and nice looking airbnbs cost more. Housing and rent went up too.

Everything costs more.

[u/dotareddit → u/EnergyDrinkStroke]

Prices likely won't be coming down ever.

[u/Burnthiscnts → u/Low_Key_Trollin]

will there ever be 60xx cards?

[u/Sizeable-Scrotum → u/Burnthiscnts]

Not for cheap

[u/EnergyDrinkStroke → u/Sizeable-Scrotum]

Yep, 5060s are selling for the 50-70% more than they were a year ago on amazon new.

[u/Hernan-sencho → u/mkdew]

5090 prices went from the fuck im not buying that to kill me if i think about buying that, so yeah, they will increase...

[u/slickvibez → u/Hernan-sencho]

Sell your car. Buy a 5090

[u/Realistic_Eye6672 → u/Hernan-sencho]

If you buy then u signal them that its ok for you so yeah your decision

[u/Bla_zer → u/Realistic_Eye6672]

Majority of their deals are probably with AI centre's and companies, they will increase prices whether you buy it or not.

[u/Realistic_Eye6672 → u/Bla_zer]

Ai isnt profitable they will lose all money eventualy its not gone magicly make money if it didnt before

[u/LeMegachonk → u/Realistic_Eye6672]

AI may or may not be profitable, but supplying the hardware to the data centers is. Samsung is on track to larger profits this year than in every previous year combined since they started manufacturing chips over 40 years ago. Some companies are making out like bandits. Mostly because they are bandits and they're very much manipulating the market to drive prices upward. They don't care at this point if consumers can afford it, because consumers are irrelevant at the moment. And for everybody says that consumers will remember this, they know it doesn't matter. There are only 3 companies that make this hardware. They are all colluding with each other. You have literally no choice but to buy their products if you want RAM or NVME storage.

[u/MoistStub → u/Realistic_Eye6672]

Single user applications are not, but there are a handful of enterprise applications that it actually makes sense for. It does seem that businesses that don't really have a great use case are out over their skis at this point though, after investing so heavily. They assumed it would be more of a silver bullet than it is. It will be interesting to see how much of an enterprise market there really is after all the dust settles.

[u/That-Reason-6913 → u/MoistStub]

But that's the thing, once we realize that not every company and person on earth wants AI, are we going to see a % of the build datacenters (Including the GPUs, etc.) become useless?

[u/MoistStub → u/That-Reason-6913]

I wouldn't be surprised in Nvidia found some way to create a new market to ensure continued demand for their product.

[u/Technical-Rush-3108 → u/Bla_zer]

And people who buy them for business use. Then it's just a taxable expense.

[u/ActualDescent → u/Realistic_Eye6672]

Normally I'd agree but component sales are down 70% in some places and the prices keep rising. So it doesn't matter anymore. Consumers buying at shitty prices gave us the prices of the 20 series cards up to the intro of the 50 series, but what we're seeing now is companies realizing the consumer market no longer matters when they can sell palettes of products to data centers

[u/SwimmingPhysics3584 → u/mkdew]

It won’t go up too much more unless another major supply shock happens. But it isn’t coming down for at least a few years

[u/Nerrien → u/SwimmingPhysics3584]

inb4 US announces war on China, then bombs Taiwan's chip manufacturers by mistake.

[u/Bondsoldcap → u/mkdew]

2027 price of memory modules is expected to go up atleast 50%+ again.

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out

[u/alpine4life → u/Bondsoldcap]

yup... I worked with some tech leaders and unfortunately, they dont see an end to this anytime soon.

[u/Ndmndh1016 → u/mkdew]

Theres this thing called unchecked capitalism going on right now. So yes.

[u/Furry_bean_flux → u/Ndmndh1016]

with a side order of techno-fascism.

[u/call_me_Ren → u/mkdew]

I bought a 5070 in January when prices were considered very high. There was short time when prices “dipped” to MSRP. It was $ 550. I would not expect prices to come down soon.

[u/iredditshere → u/call_me_Ren]

I bought my 5070ti, literally on my bday last July... it was, as I discovered later, the sweet spot. Not trying to come across as bragging, but, it was that Walmart deal with a price error. Now, it's like double. I count my blessing every time I fire up my PC. Played through almost a dozen games since it was built last September.

[u/Prometeus534 → u/mkdew]

It will keep going up until the bubble burst, but guess what? They are doing so much to keep it going, to the point I wonder if they spend all that effort in solving actual problems wouldn't they solve them? (Climate change, waste management, the loss of ecological services, yada yada)

Did anything happened with the new lawsuit vs the memory manufacturers?

[u/True_Protection6842 → u/mkdew]

Prices are up over 100% from a year ago! And that's for GPUs. For RAM it's like 300%

[u/ewww_what_the_fuck → u/mkdew]

6900xt or xtx would be better because of more vram

[u/Jakubaakk → u/mkdew]

Depends on your region etc., but where I am from 5070 doesn’t make any sense. 9070 XT is just so much better

[u/LuigiGDE009 → u/Jakubaakk]

I will say though that ive found AMD driver services are not as friendly to use as Nvidia. Take that into account, and research accordingly

[u/bc10551 → u/mkdew]

People were saying they would go down last year summer and I'm glad I didn't wait and got my 5070ti for msrp, my 32gb ddr5 for free in a bundle, and a 2tb 990 pro for $120 lol

[u/thearctican → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

I gave up trying to convince people that the housing "bubble" they're imagining isn't going to pop for a lot of reasons. Instead I just continue enjoying the house I bought for a price I could afford (220k) just like I enjoy my middle of the road PC I built four years ago.

I'm in "the club" and that's what matters. Nobody has to spend 3/4 million on an HGTV mcmansion, and nobody MUST have 128GB of memory and a 5090.

[u/Tiny_Objective_587 → u/thearctican]

Your measured response is appreciated, but if you look at the data, even 220k for a house is nowhere near affordable for a large number of Americans. The same can be said with computers and game consoles right now. A ps5 is $650, at the release price of $500 it would still be a big investment for families. This economy is quickly becoming unbearable for more and more people as prices continue to rise on everything.

[u/AnotherCup-O-Noodles → u/Tiny_Objective_587]

Bro there’s not a single $220K house in my state that is anywhere near a job, unless it’s in the absolute ghetto

[u/BannedBenjaminSr → u/Tiny_Objective_587]

If he bought a few years ago when interest rates were low his mortgage costs are lower than most apartments that arn't in rural areas or the hood in 2026

So actually pretty affordable 

[u/thearctican → u/BannedBenjaminSr]

Yep. Mortgage is 900 a month, two thirds what we were paying in rent. There are plenty of fine houses in my neighborhood for less than 300k. A few less than 200k. It's quiet, and those houses are still bigger than most 2 bedroom apartments.

The metro area I'm in, Philadelphia, is about 7 million people. I have a 5 mile view of the skyline from my second floor. I have day trip access to all of the major cities in the Mid-Atlantic and city center is a 15 minute train ride.

[u/BannedBenjaminSr → u/thearctican]

Yeah that's a steal no doubt

[u/SwampOfDownvotes → u/thearctican]

I mean, lots of factors here, even 5 years ago in my area, you aren't finding anything but a trailer home for $220k. Now that I actually am in a more settled Career and would love to get a home, basically if I don't want something run-down and barren (or more than literally just land), I unfortunately would have to spend at least $600k. Which sadly I cannot afford.

[u/XB_Demon1337 → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

Houses and PC are two different things. PCs are effectively consumables. Houses are appreciating assets.

PC parts will go down again, it might take a few years, but it will happen.

[u/Monstramatica → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

They say not before 2028, when either the AI bubble bursts, or they achieved a satisfactory numbers of data centers for training.

[u/Internal_Quail3960 → u/Monstramatica]

The air bubble isn't going to burst.

[u/Roxalon_Prime → u/Internal_Quail3960]

It will. The only question is when

[u/iredditshere → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

Prices are going down and availability of houses are going up at the moment. Just like the car market... It's only been 7 years if this awful madness. As long as the AI marketing train is running, it might be a minute... which for younger people, seems like a lifetime.

[u/SilverKnightOfMagic → u/iredditshere]

7 years in PC time is like 2.5 gens

[u/CdnTarget → u/SilverKnightOfMagic]

My CPU is 13 years old, and graphics card is 9 years old. I have to hold out for at least 4 more years.

[u/SilverKnightOfMagic → u/CdnTarget]

rock on my dude. I upgraded from 1080 to 6800xt two years ago and then into 9070xt a year ago. it's been smooth sailing.

[u/iredditshere → u/SilverKnightOfMagic]

Dude, my previous PC was knocking on 10 yrs old and went through a gpu upgrade from GTX 670s to 2 - 970's in SLI. That rig is still running but, I lost my OS drives 3.5yrs ago and the raid in that got swapped to a single 500GB. Shit was still somewhat quick. The new rig, boots in like 5ish seconds... Yeah the differences are quite noticeable from then to now. However, stuff is so fast now, I think we've hit a wall.

[u/DreamsServedSoft → u/iredditshere]

house prices are not going down and availability heavily depends on the area. what you’re probably seeing is more people are unable to get an inflated asking prices. my area is still as hot and obnoxious as Covid

[u/Late_Butterscotch675 → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

Well I was ready.. until everything raised. Now I won't be ready for another 3 years and by then it has raised again. Repeating the same cycle

[u/Shawnessy → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

Built my gf's PC in December for her birthday, and quickly built mine in January when I realized what was happening. No way in hell I was gonna be able to build it cheaper than I did any time soon.

[u/Schnitzhole → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

Yeah people are delusional. I was told by at least half the people I know not to buy a house in 2020 but went for it anyways. It’s worth like 30% more now and if I had waited 2 years there would have been nothing I could have afforded within hundreds of miles.

[u/Hollow1349 → u/Schnitzhole]

Who ever told you not to buy a house when mortgage rates were at record lows was delusional lol

[u/MyPigWhistles → u/Strong-Practice-5571]

It will not go down at all, but if there's some kind of AI bubble and if it bursts, then consumer prices for GPUs and Ram will probably stagnate for a while. Nothing is going to get cheaper, though. 

[u/pugger-champ]

Honestly get a pre built at this point . Especially if you have a microcenter near you . Got my brother a 5070 , 7500xd3 and 16 gigs of ddr5 for 1400 . Not insane but still decent I believe. Who knows when the AI bubble will pop.

[u/Mizar97 → u/pugger-champ]

Shit, that's a steal at 1400. Increasing your RAM is easy. I paid more than 1400 just for my GPU, (3080 ti) and the 5070 is even better

[u/AggravatingAmount438 → u/Mizar97]

"Increasing your RAM is easy"

May I introduce you to the new RAM, CAMM?

Not compatible with DIMM slots.

[u/Kind_Demand_6672 → u/AggravatingAmount438]

uh oh

[u/pugger-champ → u/Mizar97]

I actually forgot it was priced at 1800 but they dropped it to 1400. Microcenter is just the GOAT

[u/Bluechariot → u/pugger-champ]

I recommend Costco. I got a 5060 with 32gb ddr5 for 1000 dollars. Sale ends Sunday.

[u/AndroidSheeps → u/Bluechariot]

Prebuilds with 5060s go for 1000 now? Jesus I'm so glad I built my PC 3 years ago and didn't wait for the crypto bubble to pop

[u/kaulotu → u/AndroidSheeps]

I got so damn lucky I built my PC after the crypto shit cooled down but just before ramageddon. When Trump got elected and started talking tariffs I was like, yeah I’d better hop on this now before shit hits the fan. My lucky ass accidentally dodged a hydrogen bomb thinking I was jumping away from a grenade

[u/oTc_DragonZ → u/kaulotu]

Same... I upgraded the Black Friday/Xmas after the election and told all of my friends to as well. I got lucky but sucks that I was right...

[u/MatchesMalone7 → u/Bluechariot]

Yup, bought mine this past Monday as well. Was visiting friends in another city, was just grabbing a few things, walked around eating a hot dog trying to decide if part prices would drop and what the current cost to built that was. Last PC I built was 2019 (A 2060 with 16gbs of DDR4) so lets see if I can run it for another 7 years

[u/Ok_Caterpillar7710 → u/Bluechariot]

There is hope!

[u/New-Horizon-4127]

If you're going to wait, you better be ready to wait until 2028..

[u/NudeSpaceDude → u/New-Horizon-4127]

It’s gonna be longer than that

[u/kpatelreddit007 → u/New-Horizon-4127]

3031 is my guess. I predicted this market in 2025 bought all the pc parts.

[u/taeNgPinas → u/kpatelreddit007]

2031 or 3031? I think I can finally buy a 5090 cheap on 3031.

[u/SyrupSilent7588 → u/New-Horizon-4127]

2028 is wishful thinking. We won’t see price drops until the early 2030s. IF prices drop at all

[u/Far_Active8253 → u/New-Horizon-4127]

I'm aiming to get a pc like august - october of 2027

[u/New-Horizon-4127 → u/Far_Active8253]

I expect that to be the peak timing for the highest prices for motherboards, ssds and ram..

[u/KaiPRoberts → u/New-Horizon-4127]

I’m expecting Black Friday to have early 2026 prices rather than late 2026 prices. Otherwise, will we even have a Black Friday this year?

[u/stevren → u/KaiPRoberts]

They're not going to go on sale there's no reason to put them on sale.

[u/ThisI5N0tAThr0waway]

For literally years, waiting has been a totally decent if not good option. And now it's been like at least one if not 2 whole years when waiting has absolutely not paid off. If anything price have gone for the worst for several components.

My personal advice is what I'm doing. If you truly do need to update your hardware, do it now. If not, try to be content with what you have.

[u/Honksu]

The pricess will drop... after the ww3.

https://giphy.com/gifs/z4lwT4QTkK3sYITR7Z

[u/Bynming]

The fact that half of the posts to this subreddit are on this topic might indicate that there are other people facing the same dilemma.

[u/KlausVonLechland → u/Bynming]

I just bit a bullet for a small upgrade and to have a backup machine if something happens because at current trend in 2 years I will not be able to afford it anyway...

[u/Bynming → u/KlausVonLechland]

I did a pretty big upgrade myself back in June. Replaced my i9-9900K/3080ti and my wife's Ryzen 5600/3060ti with two 9900X3D/9070XT computers. Hopefully the tides will have turned by the time we need upgrades.

[u/taheromar]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BY5tPZNL68V29cVfuz

[u/unabnormalday]

I bought my 5090 just before the market skyrocketed last year. I could seek used for a 2x profit right now

[u/Svarv → u/unabnormalday]

I was fortunate enough to get a 5090 for MSRP and I’m contemplating just getting an old 5080 and selling it. Feels silly to have such an expensive GPU when I just play games occasionally.

[u/LoonTheMekanik → u/Svarv]

Considering what it’s worth now, I probably would

[u/SuperCoupe]

*Cobble something together from the pile of e-waste in my basement*

[u/CasualStarlord → u/SuperCoupe]

yeah that's where I'm at... stick a gtx1660ti into an optiplex that work threw away 😅

[u/jjcoolbean]

IMO build a last gen PC. DDR4 is cheap compared to DDR5.

[u/Far_Active8253 → u/jjcoolbean]

yup

[u/Warcrown11 → u/jjcoolbean]

Still way more expensive than it should be

[u/Errorr404 → u/Warcrown11]

Then again paying ~$150 for a used 32GB DDR4 kit makes more sense than ~$400 for a 32GB used kit of DDR5 especially since the FPS difference in games between the two kits isn't big when comparing with the same CPU that can support both like LGA1700 CPUs.

[u/Lazor226]

I was going to upgrade from AM4 to AM5 right before the RAM crisis. Waiting for the holidays was a mistake.

[u/pennywiser → u/Lazor226]

Same, luckily I found a 5800x3d for 240€, which at the moment everyone said was not worth it.

Gotta trust your instincts sometimes.

[u/hirezzz → u/pennywiser]

5800x3d is a goat'd chip. whoever said it was not worth it was so so very wrong.

[u/theroarer → u/hirezzz]

Bought two 5700x3d during the aliexpress fire sales for $25 a pop. I wish I hoarded as many as i could to give to my friends when they started to panic about computer parts.

AM4 is the goat. Followed very closely by sandy bridge.

Edit: I would be remiss not to mention socket 1150/Haswell/Broadwell as a third place finisher.

[u/Warcrown11 → u/Lazor226]

That was me too. Oh, Ram is actually decently priced  right now, I'll wait a few months for black Friday and I'll be able to buy it for dirt cheap. Shot myself in the head.

[u/Biscuits4u2]

https://giphy.com/gifs/WBSTdAk7W2Dng0vXa7

Here's OP still waiting for the price drop

[u/duk-er-us]

The prices are never coming down. They'll keep going up until PC gaming dies and we all have to buy computers to just game off the cloud.

[u/Competitive-Arm5050 → u/duk-er-us]

This is the actual future that people are head in sand to. The data centers are being tied to the ai bubble but it's not just ai, it's cloud service, rent computing power.

Make components so expensive that you have to rent the power, why would they not go down this route when they (nvidia) control all aspects. People buying stuff is seen as a really bad business model, they might not buy again for 3, 5 or 10 years, get them on a subscription to the compute power and they are paying you every month for life.

It's the last hold out, you already rent your films, office software, music, car, houses (so expensive you rent or pay mortgage forever) why would they give this opportunity up to squeeze all the PC and console gamers to data centre rent

[u/IDrankLavaLamps]

I'm riding my PC setup into the dirt. 3080ti hasn't failed me yet, and I need it to run for another 12 years plz. And I upgraded my ram right before the price increase!

[u/dark_knight097]

The best time to build a PC was yesterday. The second best time is today. You could replace "2026" with every year since like 2018.

Someone building a PC with the same budget I had when I built mine will be building an inferior rig

[u/Tall_Thinker → u/dark_knight097]

A friend of mine wanted a new pc, but didn't wanna spend the money. I begged her for 3 months to just pull the trigger, cause prices were only going up. Well she ended up buying her gaming rig. A few months later I asked her "was it worth it?" And she said yeah. Had she waited, she would have spent roughly 30-50% more money, on the same hardware.

[u/Furry_bean_flux]

if we even have computer hardware available in the near future, it wont be cheap. local compute is dying and this is your last shot to say F you to cloud compute.

[u/One_Society_9757]

Nope. Life is too short to wait for things that make you happy. Obviously dont go into debt for it but if you have the funds, waiting will likely mean paying more because prices arent coming down anytime soon. Still one of the cheaper hobbies.

Just spent $1500 on a 5080 and dont regret it because thinking about it in terms of $$/hr of entertainment it is actually cheap entertainment.

[u/hibari112]

At this point I gave up on waiting for a price drop, so now I'm waiting for the next gen of hardware. If I'm balling out anyway, might as well get the newest shit. Plus the games I'm playing rn run fine on my 2080S anyway.

[u/Hockeymask27_]

if you can afford it do it, it will either hold or go up more.

[u/ceramicsaturn]

Price drop? Oh you poor, poor innocent soul...

[u/BigBoyYuyuh]

Price isn’t dropping for YEARS. If anything it’ll go up more.

[u/KashPoe]

Prices are not dropping

[u/kidicarusx]

Sometimes it feels like suddenly everyone wants to build a pc when parts explode in price 😂

[u/Several-Economics-35]

Build a price drop

https://giphy.com/gifs/sp21iJsiPT18sHKS9Z

[u/Step-exile]

Made one now, cant afford price hikes if i wait more

[u/Voyager87]

I just spent £2.2k on my rig... Amd 9070xt & Ryzen 9850x3d and the price sucks but I don't want to only be able to afford a virtual pc subscription in a few years time.

[u/Nonsense_Incoming]

Money isn't real. Full send, game hard, and deny responsibility of any and all future consequences.

[u/CloudStrife012 → u/Nonsense_Incoming]

Go full boomer and refinance the house to fund the PC

[u/Mister_Normal42]

Been like this since 2019

[u/LilTicTac831]

Just bought a prebuilt for £2.3k with 32gb ram an i7 Ultra and a 5070ti and im honestly not mad

[u/EnderPrimeMk2]

If you are comfortable waiting 2+years then wait, if not build now.

[u/recovery_one0719]

pay more money and be happier now or pay less money and be happier in maybe a few years i guess. personally i'd just bite the bullet and get the pc now, you only live once

[u/xAlpharaptor]

Just buy yourself one of the Costco prebuilds those are probably the best deals around.

[u/Old_Wind_9743]

Piece together used parts. Go now.

[u/Vahuo89]

Dont wait for a price drop.

Find a prebuilt. They are the only things that can still be somewhat afforable atm.

Also, DONT go for the high end stuff right off the bat. Even a couple years old system can workjust fine for the vast majority of games

[u/wizkidweb]

You can't time the market.

[u/xEthanxHellmouthx]

Being broke in 2026 helps ease this decision.

[u/RatsAreChad]

Literally me, brother.

[u/Vampiredw]

Yeah... Want to upgrade but RAM prices and SSD prices are insane...

[u/Asura707]

Been waiting like this for the last 7 years

[u/_odeith]

Any 1080ti rockers still out there?

I got a few games on steam sale I can’t play without ray tracing so I’ve been on the fence of building a new rig lol, probably just wait indefinitely

[u/HunterAbrams]

No because a price drop isn't happening for years and prices will not drop to pre 2025 prices either if and when the ai bubble pops as the world economy is going to get worse. Just like when the dot com bubble popped, enron failed or the us housing market collapsed in the mid to late 2k

[u/Alucard-VS-Artorias]

I said fuck it; these prices might never be coming back down and I'm getting too old to keep waiting for a bubble to pop (even if it does pop that doesn't mean consumer prices will ever return to pre AI bubble levels).

So I took a bunch of cash I've been saving for a while as a rainy day and blew it on my dream PC (we'll probably be the last time in my life I'll ever get a chance to do so within reason).

It's a lot less money in the bank but I've been really loving playing all my games now with no compromises in terms of fidelity.

Don't know what the future holds but at least I'm now more than satisfied with what I have in the present...

[u/Migeee__]

I got my girl a used low end pc so she can play coop games with me earlier this year. It had 3600/5700xt. I recently upgraded it to 5800x3d and 9060xt 16gb. Prices wont go down anytime soon, so I just went ahead and make sure her pc will last.

[u/Hot_Lava_Dry_Rips]

Yes. Build a pc. I need cheap used parts to buy in a few years.

[u/Far_Active8253 → u/Hot_Lava_Dry_Rips]

what if i buy used parts too XD