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Now is the most expensive time to upgrade PC in history
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Dave Stromberger
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Tell me about it! My antique computer is too old to expect a BIOS patch, so I've started shopping. Shocked at the price of RAM! Fortunately my gfx card will be good enough for the next build.
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ADMint
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Can't argue with that one. And I'm in need of both - Need a new GPU to replace my aging AMD R9 Fury. And I need a 32gig DDR4 RAM kit for my other PC.
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Tom_N
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Hardly. In the late 1970s, RAM cost roughly $150 USD per 16 KB. That would translate to over $150 million USD for 16 GB., not that any PC made back then could take that much.
Today, 16 GB of RAM might set you back $160 USD, making this far from "the most expensive time to upgrade PC in history."
Today, 16 GB of RAM might set you back $160 USD, making this far from "the most expensive time to upgrade PC in history."
Robert Zanatta
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Agreed. Back in 90 or 91 it was $100 per MB.
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ADMint
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Back in the day all the PC parts we have now where prohibitively expensive. Back in the day they didn't have tech we have now. Back in the day was back in the day. C'mon man. We're talking here and now.
Sheesh, there's always that guy.
tkbslc
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Surely you can't mean most expensive in all history. Recent history, sure.
tkbslc
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Title of the thread says "in history".
BG454
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Good post.Surely you can't mean most expensive in all history. Recent history, sure.
Lets keep things in perspective.
I was going to say, everytime I think RAM is expensive, I think about the time I had to pay 100 bucks for a single 1MegaByte SIMM and all of sudden things don't seem so bad anymore today.Good post.Surely you can't mean most expensive in all history. Recent history, sure.
Lets keep things in perspective.
That said, it's quite annoying to see that the 64G of Corsair Platinum I bought 2 years ago is current almost twice as what I paid for it if you are building computer right now. I'd probably could sell it 2nd hand for more than what I paid for it at the moment. Not that I am, but still.
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Brian P Smith
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Stinks. I finally decided to pull the trigger on upgrading my old system to a newer mITX based system and it cost me about $850, without graphics card, when it should have cost $600
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No, the OP is talking about today being the most expensive time in history. It's right there in the title of the thread. This person is obviously wrong.
GPU and RAM prices might be a bit high at the moment, but we have reached a plateau, where even inexpensive computer systems will be relevant for quite some time to come. Equipment can be held on to for much longer than it would have been 10 or 15 years ago. We have maybe a year left before cryptocurrency speculation crashes, and RAM is supposed to come down later this year.
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Was this you that posted in ten forums as well? Just curious as I saw that post there.
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You guys can turn any simple comment into an epic Einsteinian debate of cosmic proportions.
Anyway on a simpler common sense talk scale, I get where the OP is coming from, and agree.
I've been building since 98, with my last upgrade (MB, CPU) being April 2017. That said, I use a lot of my parts from my old system and in 2016 a 4 DIMM kit of 32gig DDR4 Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM (CMD32GX4M4B3333C16) cost me $270 dollars at New Egg. Now, that same kit runs at New Egg runs $489 bucks!!!
donaldsc
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I am not questioning the prices but what would bitcoin mining have to do w it.
tkbslc
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Yeah, graphics card price gouging is a major bummer. RAM has gone up, but I'm not sure whether it is too expensive now or it had just gotten way too cheap. Relative to history, it seems like it got ridiculously cheap there for a year or 2.
But on the other side of this, processors are giving you way more for the same money and SSD prices are very reasonable.
If you compared what you could build a high end 8-core desktop today vs 2 years ago, even with RAM and GPU prices, I think you'd come out ahead.
But on the other side of this, processors are giving you way more for the same money and SSD prices are very reasonable.
If you compared what you could build a high end 8-core desktop today vs 2 years ago, even with RAM and GPU prices, I think you'd come out ahead.
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The card I have sells today for roughly twice what I paid for it months ago.
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Because of the bitcoin craze which uses GPU's for mining, especially AMD (the preferable card for miners), prices have drastically risen above MRSP prices due to supply & demand, especially where new cards are concerned. AMD tried to put a squash on this with Vega, but that didn't work.
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