So what will PC builders do in the near future? The hobby is becoming absolutely unaffordable
>>109610307Stop being poorPc's are still cheap compared to other hobbies
I love these regular "PCs are being price restricted to White, straight, employed men - as it always was, and always should be" threads.But not as much as I love being a White, straight, employed man.
>>109610307they will lament from deep within their reflections of the weekend eWaste eventsseriously though, the retro scene is rising and older hardware is good again.
>>109610370>Stop being po- *gets laid off because hiring Ranjan with Claude from Bangladesh is cheaper than maintaining 5 middle-class senior software engineers*
Must be worrying for all those pc builders who build a pc every year. I don't care since I don't.
>>109610307>The hobby is becoming absolutely unaffordableonly if you are normiecattle that think they need a 5090, 64GB of RAM and the latest AMD threadripper or whatever to play the latest unoptimised goyslop, because that's the only reason anyone would build a PC.the truth has been for a long time that games pre-2015 or so are better than anything released today with rare exception, with clearer graphics and better gameplay.pc building has reached the peak. go home now.
>>109610370Incredibly retarded. Even if you're well off you don't want to pay 5x the price.
A couple of things that are pertinent to the discussion.>PC components were much more expensive in the past.Relatively speaking. Computers and pc components cost much more than even now in the 80s and 90s. We went through a 20 year golden age of affordability from the early 00s to the early 20s.>Home desktop PCs are an ever decreasing niche marketWith smartphones and prebuilt laptops, desktop PCs are no longer seen in the living room of homes and are increasingly disappearing from the bedrooms of teenagers and young adults.>PC builders are not that important to chip manufacturersThey're prioritising big data. We're witnessing the rampocalypse while profits are surging for the manufacturers. Well the manufacturers who are selling to data centres. Those tied to the home pc building market are struggling with sales.So is this the end?No, there'll remain a substantial demand. But what will happen, did happen, is the high end stuff will become very expensive.The manufacturers are already responding by taken a pause in innovation for a trade off in price. You can have your ddr4 and pcie 4.0 with less ram volume for a higher price.
>>109610307i bought a prebuilt rgb slop last time, you no longer get a good deal building your own
>>109610436you're going to die one day, & the couple extra thousand it costs is well worth it. Where else was it going towards anyway? Retirement? Retirement is not going to look anywhere similar to how it does now in the next 30 years.
>>109610601You need to have held a job at any point in your life to "retire", anyway.
>>109610307Ughh, it's really not that bad. The average compute modules (GPU, RAM, SSD, Motherboard, CPU) cost you ~3k every 3-5 years, depending on your upgrade schedule. That's less than 100 bucks per month The auxiliary modules last much longer anyways.
it took two men to bring computers to family homes. who would be the next wozniak?
>>109610753GPT-7
>>1096105363d accelerators where costing $25 000 back then until a few engineers left SGI to start 3dfx and make a much more cheap gpu for gamers (Voodoo). now the cheap gpus are back to $25 000.
>>109610753suddenly, everything about apple makes complete sense
>>109610753eh, they brought their version and vision of the home computer. there were many others involved.
>>109610307>relaised I never used my GAYmen PC about 2 years ago>sold all the parts, use a thinkpad now>had (2x8)16gb DDR4 chips, sold on ebay for £30>RAM shortage hits a year later>those chips are now worth £160I dont even care in terms of the PC, I dont miss gaming at all. All the shit I play runs fine on my thinkpad anyway. But still, wtf?? Old ass RAM that wasn't even particularly good went up 5x? Has literally anything good come out of this AI shit? Absolutely retarded.
>>109610614
no one ever said anything like thatbuy what you need if you cannot meet dues repoman take it awayne ?
>>109610370this. the third world is being ejected from the Master Race and OP is FURIOUS
>>109610307Just assemble something from your ewaste pile if you like "building" so much
>>109610307I'm an audiophile and have spent $800 on speaker cable. your'e a casuall gaymer not a hobbyist. ask mommy for a raise
>>109610827>there were many others involved.that cost an arm while being barely superior. wozniak was the champion of cost cutting of his era. like ken kutaragi (sony, playstation) in the 90's. cost cutting is what we need now.
>>109610307consooming is not a hobby
>>109611057woz was good, but he was no jack trameil.
>>109611062this
You don't need more compute than what is required to play CS2 at 120fps.
>>109611053thats really cool anoncan you afford cable thick enough no baffle correction
No, nature is healing.Hardware limits makes the best developers.
>>109610429/thread
>>109610307Stick their thumbs up their asses sigh and give up why you wanna be a bitch I guess soNo wonder boomers look at the successor generations as weakYou can't work you can't eat you can't dress you can't fuck can't change a tire nothingToo much Fortnite tik tok instant video porn Hot pockets and Door dash papa fucking johns 50 dollar 7 layer pizza breadsticks garlic dippins 2 litre Dr PepperWHO DA FUCK DRINK A PRUNE SODA LIKE THAT?
>>109610429Based.
>>109610307Usecase?Seriously though all it means is people will accept lower fidelity in their games and pace out upgrades for longer. People won't be building the ultimate ricer rig from the start for their video games. For all other use cases people will turn more often to the second hand market. A cheap 3 year old thinkpad is plenty for most people.The only people really facing a squeeze right now are data hoarders.
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>>109610376>I absolutely loooooooove getting fleeced by companies who have increased their gains by 700% while my paycheck stagnates!
>>109614315>while my paycheck stagnatesskill issue or brown
>>109614629Surely you made a 700% gain recently
