I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.

I went to a pc building shop and the price of 64 RAM DDR5 was over $1000. I could have built an entire PC with that price a year ago.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    What is the feasibility of getting a prebuilt gaming PC and using it for the parts I need/want and selling the rest of it?

    I’m sure that you could do that, but I think part of the problem there is that everyone else is going to be in the same boat, short of RAM, and I’m not sure what demand there is for a gaming PC stripped of its RAM.

    If there isn’t much demand, you might have trouble recouping what you spent on the parts you don’t want.

    I read one article that CPU prices may drop, because the increased RAM prices will drive up PC prices, price some people out of the market, and so there will be less demand for CPUs.

    • RiceBowl@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      That’s an interesting theory on the CPUs. Though it walways takes longer for prices to drop than it does to rise. I’ll be keeping an eye out.

      You’re right that selling the parts may not actually be profitable or even recoup expenses. Though I was thinking I had a gpu that’s decent enough for my 1080p gaming so could sell whatever 5000 series comes with it for cheap and give someone a nice deal.