While rubbing their hands fast enough to start a fucking fire.
GPU prices never recovered. I'm still on a 1060.
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I bought an used RTX 3070 when they announced the RTX 40 series and AMD theirs with a 50€ difference. Gaming is slowly becoming a luxury, and now with the tariffs, and Nintendo trying to push games to 90€.... Hello backlog.
yeah, well, my gripe since covid has been how high end graphics cards are triple the cost of a new switch 2. For just a graphics card. There's no way the hardware and R&D costs so much they need to be that much. Get fucked. I'll wait until another player gets up to speed or they come down.
Well it can be, very high end computer equipment costs a shitload. GPUs cost that much because people now want to spend that much on more performance.
You can get a cheaper card or use the onboard graphics on the CPU.
For the short term, perhaps. Only reason they're so expensive is because of how few countries are capable of chip manufacturing. The plan of returning American industry gives the US an amazing opportunity to increase chip production and make the supply chain more affordable.
BOOO! You won't be able to afford what you're already not able to afford!
About to? Comparatively it's been up for quite some time now and I expect it to get more expensive as we go. Used to be $1000 could build you a pretty decent PC for gaming. Now? $2000+. And the tariffs are just gonna exacerbate everything for Americans.
I just spent $4,000 CAD on mine and I'm glad I didn't wait any longer.
Looks like I'm running the 1660 Super for the next decade
GPU brother!
This is why I built my new pc, my wifes new pc and built a friend a new pc. The writing was on the wall and you had to have been blind not to see it.
Is the US really that central to PC component manufacturing, or is this (mostly) just a US thing? Like, don't get me wrong, I know a lot of these companies are US-based, but isn't basically all the manufacturing and most of the distribution handled elsewhere?
So there's these things called 'tariffs' you might have heard mentioned on the news...
Yes, in the US. Some of us don't live in the US though. Given that parts are made in countries like Taiwan surely the tariffs won't matter much to anyone outside the US?
Sure, but 90% of the English speaking people online are Americans. I presumed it was in that context
90%? Not a chance. Even out of people who only speak English as a first language, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand are a lot more than just 10% of the US population. Plus a few other countries that are mostly English first.
Then you have people that speak English as a second language all over the place too.
Gonna reduce that e-waste... Used prices will be higher
I just wrote elsewhere, these tariffs are left coded like you wouldn’t imagine. If Bernie had done this, the left (not the left as in democrats but the left as in communists) would be carving his face on Mount Rushmore.