Hey folks. Been a while since I’ve been here. I’ve been trying to put together a second PC for a while now for work and gaming, but I had to wait because well finances and stuff. And now that I’m finally ready, everything is stupidly expensive because of this whole AI bubble. I can’t even afford RAM or a GPU anymore. It just sucks.
What makes it worse is that companies are obviously going to use this as an excuse to jack prices up even more ( thank you mega corporations ). And of course scalpers are out there making everything even harder to get and then comes Indian retailers those greedy oportunistic mfs and add indian taxes on top of that. It’s just a mess for anyone who actually wants to build a normal budget gaming PC.
Honestly, I’m just ranting, but this whole situation is miserable and very stupid. i just want to rant bcs i don’t know what else can we even do at this point.
I am completely with you on this one. Happened in 2020 for me as well, I was saving money for years and when I decided to pull the trigger, everything went haywire. Had to keep using my GTX 760 during covid, and our friends group stuck to CS:GO and Minecraft for the time being.
Maybe we would have had better graphics if we played things like Battlefield or Call of Duty, but we enjoyed anyways, and definitely no regrets. Experience was great!
I am not into single player games anyway, so didn’t matter much for me.
Look at it this way: What games can you currently play? What games can you NOT play because you can’t build your second PC? Try to find alternate ways to get things you want to get done.
The PC gaming scene in India always seemed inferior, for all the issues you mentioned.
But Games and PC hardware is not an urgent necessity, and we can live without it. If you want good experiences, there are other ways to get them.
At least this is what I told myself during the crypto boom when I couldn’t get a good GPU. Didn’t miss much, had loads of fun anyways.
Thats where people make mistake, they try to grab it all all at once.
You should had gradually acquired components by managing your finances.
During covid era I upgraded my decade old rig and we all know what mining did to the gpu market. I know other things could wait but gpu. After a year long awaiting I was able to grab an msrp RTX FE deal on a whatsapp group and then the path was very easy further as i then kept grabbing such deals on TE for proccy and mobo. And in amazon sale I grabbed 32gb ram for just 8k and 1tb ssd for 5k.
Thats how I managed on the finance and was always on a lookout for such once a while deals.
Now you buy all other stuff and keep a look for a good used ram and gou deals.
Only if you are buying one component in a year or two and obviously nobody will keep that mobo or gpu for next 3-5 yrs waiting to build the rig. It should all happen within max 15 months.
As for used components cpus are headache free unless bent pin/broken while for others buy used yet under sufficient warranty.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has said it will take two decades for quantum to go mainstream. Gelsinger thinks two years. Whoever is right, “we’re heading into the most thrilling decade or two for technologists.” He doesn’t see the AI bubble popping for another couple of years, but thinks a quantum breakthrough could trip it.
He’s convinced the currently dominant chips — graphics processing units — will start getting displaced by the end of the decade.
