>$700 for a low-mid video card>$400 for a high capacity hard drive (read:NOT ssd)When will this nightmare end
>>748312141Get a job.
>>748312141It will not end.>Couple years ago, want to get a good PC for vidya>bro just wait for the prices to drop bro>it gets worse>bro it's gonna get better, prices will drop >it keeps getting worse>bro.. uh... the crisis will be over at some point>it's not overit's so overMissed the bus. Shit costs more how much getting my license cost. I will just consolefag for life I guess
>>748312775But McDonald's isnt paying enough and they're the only ones who will hire me
Should have bought 3-4 years ago, dumb waitfag.
Just steal computer parts. Fuck it. Samsung and Nvidia have enough profit as it is.
>>748312964Should've stayed in school, kiddo.
>>748312141>>748312964Just put it on a credit card, economy will collapse soon anyways so don't have to worry about paying it back
>>748312141>high capacity hard driveThere is no legitimate reason for any citizen to have high capacity storage devices. You don't need more than 20gb.
>>748313063why are companies allowed to make unlimited profit but 40% of my income is taxed?
>>748313305Because you keep voting for conservative retards or more likely don’t vote at all.
>>748312141Most of these places have a buy now, pay off as you go option nowadays you dumb faggot. Get approved for a loan and pay it off piecemeal I've done that with the last two computers I've bought and I've had zero issues whatsoever.
>>748312141a 3060 is not $700
>>748313092But anon i have an art degree
>>748313386>muh koshervativesdo you actually believe voting for leftists who want to tax me so trannies can get axe wound surgery is a better solution?
>>748313305Because you're not voting for your Mamdani equivalent woke politician unironically
2028, when the bubble bursts. But the economy will be too fucked before you can buy an SSD
>>748313386>conservativeWhy do faggots think commie worshipping trannies don't do this shit as well? Hitler should come and kill the kikes once and for all, and also kill you for saying something retarded.
>>748312846your fualt foe not seeing the literal governments getting in on AI. sorry to tell you but this isn't going to be 2008, it is just going to be AI companies becoming Lockheed
>>748313386i don't vote at all you fucking niggerboth parties want infinite migrants for different reasons why would i support either of them
>>748312964>he thinks mcdonalds will hire himunless you are a jeet you wont even get hired there lmao
>>748312141good news is that the technological advancement has started stalling so current gen cards will stay relevant a lot longer than previous gens
>>748313773That's what you get for living in new york
>>748313778advancements are not stalling, but hardware is. nvidia will keep basically att 30+ GPU's alive through updates, so don't expect price decreases anywahere near significant
>>748313507>Believes a 3060 is decent in fucking 2026Simply, Brown.
>>748312141In the year 2040 or so, PCs will be too pricey for regular people to buy, so you will need to rent one for a monthly fee. And yes, it will include spyware, in-built ads and restrictions. This is the future that awaits us.
>>748314102I will kill myself immediately then
The storage squeeze is killing me more than the video cards. I've had to delete a lot of mainstream porn to make space for the niche stuff that could disappear due to lack of seeding interest.
>Still saving/cataloging pornography NGMI
>>748314082What games worth playing need more?
>1300 dollars for ram that was 300 a year agoThank you rajesh very cool
>>74831408212GB and 1080p is all you need.
where the fuck are the chinks when you need them?
>>748314359How would you know if you can't run them
I got mine. I can play anything worth a damn with my 4070 Ti Super and 2TB of storage.
>>748314486Post hand, you won't
>>748314543Too bad having money won't save you from being a DUMB FROGPOSTER
>>748314424you don't need 64 gigs
>>748314689hand, you won't
>>748312141Catfish some loser on discord. Free real estate. There are plenty of lonely men on /soc/ that are lonely.
>>748314754I only have 16, I am destroyed anally and completely.
>>748314750Frog website.
>>748314842>Yes i worship satan. Problem?
>>748312141Minimum 4 years max 10 years
>>748314929Now.
>>748314929
>>748315186>>748315292You belong in hell.
>>748312141Don't worry, soon you won't have to buying pc because all be in AI CLOUD.
>>748315347I forgive you for saying such unchristian things to a fellow brother of the faith. Always remember, no man knoweth the day or the hour and propheseying falsely IS a sin.
>>748312141It will only get worse before it gets better.
>>748314754Neither do slop companies. They can fuck themselves
just get a B580 and one of those microcenter cpu+mobo+ram bundles, throw in a 500gb boot drive + 2TB HDD and youre good to go
>>748315569*it will only get worse*Ftfy
>>748313386sell me on blue jews over red jews wait
>>748315728Hard drives are a waste of money in 2026
>>748315354>we're going to circle back around to pay-per-minute internet like the dial-up>but now it's your whole computing setup and the corporations can have free reign over your storage and what content you're allowed access tomicrosoft is already testing the waters with gamepass. you want to play these games more than 5 hours? you better pay up, bucko.
>>748315761Blue jews will pretend to not be controlled by Israel. Red jews will start a 2-week special operation that's on its 7th month.But dont vote for Hillary because "shes a warhawk"
>Blue jews will pretend to not be controlled by Israel.
Kill all directionbrains
I've spent the past 2 years warning you fuckers that this was gonna happen, you don't get to cry about it now
>>748314253like what? post your torrents you seed
>>748312141>$1,100 dollary doos Suck one dick for a thousand dollars, or a thousand dicks for one dollar.
When you embrace the low requirement lifestyle.
>>748316343>he didn't spend the extra on the 9800OH NO NO NO
>>748314817how? what discord?>>748316548what game
when the chinks start shitting out memory en masse, so in about 3-4 years when those new CXMT and YMTC factories clear LRIP
>Lived long enough to see vidya become a more expensive hobby than firearmsWew
748315556I will never be "friends" with any frogposter. If you do really believe, you are retarded for worshipping the damned frog. Don't even reply as I will have already left.
>>748316597Runeomicon.It's ok. You connect dots in the shape of constellations/rune symbols as quickly as you can while purchasing upgrades to keep villagers away from your ritual site before they break down the door and stick a hammer in your face
>>748316638That thing has a crazy trigger for a DA/SAI still think ammo will make it more expensive in the long run, thirdies can just play old shit on their 20/30 series too anyways
>>748312141>When will this nightmare endDon't worry, gaming will be around $49.99 a month for 20 hours soon.
>>748312141high end computer parts were ridiculously cheap during the 2010s. this is a price correction.we'll get lower prices again once the big AI players are forced to stop using monopoly money. likely to happen once OpenAI's IPO finally comes through. who knows when that will happen though, Altman keeps pushing the date back to keep the gravy train rolling.
>>748317293the bubble will never burst and companies will rent your computer out to you on the cloudcope
Then buy a ps5
>>748316823I can get 1200 rounds of 9MM for about $250. 15 round magazines, that would be 80x full mags. Multiple range sessions and a competition's worth of ammo right there. Not to mention the other possibilities; hell you can be a ghetto alchemist and turn lead (bullets) into gold (stolen goods) with a gun
>>748312775a 5070 is more expensive than what I earn in a month1st world niggas don't know shit about owning nothing yet
>>748312141why not just buy a console at that point?
>>748318068Steam Machine is a glimpse of future consoles and the pivot towards that hybrid premade PC / console setup
I work in an IT department and I'm seriously considering stealing the memory of used laptops at my job and selling. We have like 30 laptops sitting on a shelf collecting dust - warranty has expired and they would never be handed out to new staff.
>>748318206At least you can nuke SteamOS if you wish, It's just arch
>>748318206But /v/ anons said consoles suck and they have no games and i should build a pc with used pc parts and play games from early 2010's...
>>748318068>no mods>don't even own the fucking hardware, much less the softwareA PC from 00s is preferable to any console ever made.
>>748318363Can't you be accused of a serious crime if you steal shit from an office? I would check your local law first. If it is just a minor shit, who cares. But maybe they sue you or worse.
>>748312141Incredible how people are reluctant to see we live in WW3 (aka short military operations)
>>748312141Everything getting expensive is the "last" of our worries. What we should worry about is the fact that even after spending money to get the product you want, you still probably won't get the service that the product offers without logging into some cloud or app. Or maybe even forcing you to upgrade your OS. Mobo companies for example have stopped releasing driver support for Windows 10. We are in for the most Jewish decade of existence and you all better Aryan your mind up as "quickly" as you can.
>>748313169i wouldnt count on it
>>748318715>A PC from 00s is preferable to any console ever made.yes indian anon im pretty sure your gt760 computer is better than a ps5 or a cfw switch
im glad i managed to buy good gpu before everything went to shit. still stuck on 16gb and mid cpu but it is what it is
>>748312141and you need that for what exactly
>>748312775>In 2008, a part-time job could buy me a computer>In 2026, a part-time job can't buy me a single piece of a computer
>>748312846Prices have droppes every time, the previous gens are cheap now, you don't need more than 1080
>>748318393Yes, that's Valve being the most sensible vidya company and digital marketplace company at once. You can't expect that leniency from Xbox or PlayStation brands if they make their own version of this setup in the future.It will come to a point where home console market and PC gaming will overlap, entirely driven by the extortion level prices of components for the consumer market leaving these large companies as the only ones with the capital to purchase in bulk, ahead of time, and essentially choke out the consumer market due to this scarcity. And you can bet your left ass cheek they know and are planning for a market capture of the PC sector in due time
>>748313386It's incredible to me how you can't win. If lefties just dropped the tranny and immigration shit they'd fucking win everything with how retarded conservatives are now, but they just can't do it
>>748314754Fuck you commie
i hope you guys are ready because it's only going to get worse from here
Steam games become unplayable for 30 minutes every tuesday and steamniggers still believe they own their games, unless you pirate every game like a god, one single error on valves servers and your entire game library is gone forever
>>748319068>He says that obvious as fuck bait even using trollfaceWow if somebody falls for your bait, they deserve a full mouth of tranny cock.
>tfw paid $900 for 2x16gb DDR5 this weeki am the raped
>>748319140Explain how it's bait what exactly is wrong in what i said? Can you resell the games you "own" can you give them to a friend so they can play it? How is it any different from what ps and xbox is doing with digital games,
>>748318915You're also a winjeet, aren't you?
748319282Sorry, but you are too fucking obviousNext time at least don't use a trollface, bye
>>748316638>soiZStaccato Chads WON
>>748319443God i hate steamcucks, they're somehow worse than console fanboys, at least they know theyre getting cucked steamies will act like their platform is somehow superior.If you play games on pc and instead of pirating games you buy them on steam, you're just a brainwashed consumer. Have fun looking thru steam sales every week when you could get more than half of those games for free with no content missing
>>748313778The tech is still advancing, it's just directed towards datacenters and not pcs. Dram production is being cut massively in favour of hbm for example.Sure things might get better 2-4 years from now if more production comes online and china becomes a genuine global competitor. But until then, things look exceedingly bleak. Especially for 2027.
>want to other things with PC than just game like cycles render in blender, video editing etc.nvidia is the only one relevant in this space.>5060 ti 16gb is almost $800 kek>5070 is almost 1k>5070ti is above 1kits over
>>748319635Pic related
>>748318967
>tfw got lucky and timed my purchase exavtly right
>>748313386voting doesn't workboth sides are bought out by aipacyour country is under foreign rule
>>748314785kekaroo >>748314689 rekt
it won't end. just grab whatever you can afford right now before it gets worse.
>>748313386I cannot wait till AOC gets in. No really, I can't fucking wait for it.
>>748312775>have a job>month ends>put a decent chunk of the salary into savings for PC>1st month half a GPU>2nd month 2nd half of GPU>3rd month CPU>4th month mobo and PSU>5th month RAM>6th month finish up the savings>oops nvidia and RAM trio raised prices>back to the mines with you
>>748320898Do you seriously believe a female has any chance of becoming the president
>>748319760I paid 1k for 3070. Stop cying baby.
End it right now and kill yourself, jaknigger.
This all ran me maybe $1300 like a year ago
>>748316638Plus Silencers are already cheaper now, and if that Texas case goes through we are likely going to finally be able to justify really cheap ones like Europeans can buy.
>>748312141I wanted to buy both of those a year ago but couldn’t be bothered with ordering them. Then after the price increase I got kinda annoyed but figured I wouldn’t have got my moneys worth, I’ve got brand new stuff ranging from cheap electronics to a laptop in particular, still in the box. I’m sure the ram and video card would have been the same.
>>748318068I pay for PC hardware and the games are freenot gonna pay 80 buckaroos every time I wanna play a new game fagtalso no mods and games usually run like shit compared to my PC
Hardware is never gonna be cheaper again than it is now. Bite the bullet or get ready to rent your PC.
>>748313386>>748313596Voting for leftwokies who let infinity third worlders in, raising taxes to pay for gibs they give out while the original citizens have to wait years to get them, raises prices everywhere, actually.Including tech toys.
>>748312141I bought an i7 13700k, rtx4080, 32gb ram, 4tb nm790 nvme, 1tb nvme and already had a 1tb SSD in like 2022 and 2023Feels pretty good
>>748323061this thinking is like when gas goes up and people rush to fill their tank. What does it help you if you can save 40 bux during the next few weeks because you got yours now?hardware fails, gets stolen, or damaged in fires/floods/dumbassery, etcyou could buy a 5090 NOW but what in 5 years? 10 years?
>He didn't upgraded his rig in January 2025
>>748313386>It's the red goys fault!>Support the blue goy next time!I'd rather not rabbi
>>748312141>>748323061This. Do not worry OP, you're actually in the ideal position of not being left holding the bag with outdated hardware you spent a fortune on. You can just rent in the cloud which is way more cost effective
Sure glad I upgraded 3 years ago before everything went to hell. I won't upgrade again for 10 years.
>>748323074what are you talking about?? americans ARE 3rd worlders. you think you are whiter than a jeet ? lmao
>>748323448jewgle already tried with their stadia garbagethey can't beat latencynot even retarded normalniggers wanted that shit
>>748323283Tech in particular always seems like such a dumb investment I mean yeah sure it’s cool and all, but so is a nice guitar for example and I know the latter isn’t gonna be worth less than dogshit down the road unlike my top dog Galaxy Note 7
>>748319068>Steam games become unplayable for 30 minutes every tuesday absolute retard
>>748323842>IMG_3376.jpgThat, alongside the rest of the shlock in your post confirms you engage in "whiter than you" pissing contests on /pol/ kekThanks for proving me right
>>748316625They are not going to lower the prices, they are perfectly happy overcharging gwailos. And their key market is domestic, gwailos will only get leftovers.
>>748312141My video card stopped working yesterday and even after installing new river i wont give video.Had to use the warranty and I hope they will fix it. In the mean time I have dusted my old notebook from 10+ years ago. it barely fucking works and Ill probably install linux on it somehow to see if it does anything. My father also landed me his notebook that he doesn't use just in case as well.hopefully they are able to either fix it or give me a new video card.it is an amd rx 6750 xt, it has 2 years of very light use. It fucked itself over while I was playing psychonauts 1
>>748312964Get a job at a warehouse and get an instant $5/hr raise
>>748312141Every dev with a brain cell working is aiming at the steam deck for specs.Just have a computer faster than a steam deck and you will be fine.I don't so i'm fucked but you don't need to be.
>>748312964Amazon hires anyone with a pulse and pays like $20/hr.
>>748312141it just started, the entire 2027 will be fucked and probably the first half of 2028 will be too
>>748312964Security is easy work. 8 hours for a guard card class and $100 for a background check and then its $21 for sitting in a car and watching anime for 8 hours. Occasionally shoo away the crackheads and homeless.
>bro get a dead end job so you can afford bing bing wahooeither go full neet or full normalfagdon't half ass it, we have enough casuals at both vidya and real life as it is
>>748325060Anyone who currently has a 50 series (even the piece of shit 5060) will be fine well past that.
>>748325362Sometimes going full neet circles back to normalfagThe best is having multiple hobbies and skills to never be shoehorned or defined by a single one
>>748312775where
>>748313386You saying companies weren't allowed to make unlimited profits under Biden? Can you prove this?
>>748325362And how do you afford to be full NEET if you're not already rich or your parents are dead/refuse to support their 30 year old son? Don't say bux because that's a complete meme.
>>748312141Who cares? There are no AAA games worth playing.Unless you want to generate porn a new graphics card is worthless.
>>748325414Isn't there no new gen of GPUs till 2028 anyway?
>>748314082>Simply, Brown.This ultra-consumerist mentality did not exist here before your "people" had access to the internet.
>>748314540Just name one. Shouldn't be that hard
I have a 6750 XT. I don't need more.
>>748325485I think being on welfare some places in Europe is kinda legit? Otherwise you probably need to get diagnosed with something to get disability
>bought a 28TB HDD for $315 around November last year, just because I needed a new HDD cause my JAV folder was getting too fat and decided fuck it get the one and done drive for everything>It's $1200 nowI wish I had this kind of accidental foresight with GPUs, but I'll take this W I guess.
>>748323979>stadia garbagehttps://vocaroo.com/1c9NVB8EJ8EG
>>748312141I found a 2 TB SSD along with a mid CPU and 32GB of ram at my local thrift store. It was actually a set of 2 computers no one bought due to them being caught in an electrical fire and not working, but it turned out one just had the Ram seated poorly and the fire damage on the other only affected the motherboard, so I was able to frankenstien them into a working unit. It's okay, I can play MGSV on low for 5 bucks so I can't really complain as it was still a great deal, to bad I'll never get a GPU for it as things are.
>friend is being evicted and moving to europe and is giving me his high end pc for free the one time luck has ever been in my favor
>>748312141I bought my 5050 at $270>b-but thats way too loDont care, i dont need anything more than 1080p 60fpsSeethe and dilate
>>748312141Doesnt look like it will end anytime soon
>mfw 9060 xt 16gb its a simple life
>>748312141The Federal Reserve will unironically save usIf they keep jacking up interest rates, the AI bubble will pop faster than you can say "Huang." It's all funded by debt, companies borrowing to pay for theoretical profits that don't actually exist and literally cannot exist if investments become more expensiveThis will additionally crash the stock market, housing prices and other assets, and we're gonna end up with deflation and it's gonna be funny watching the Jews and boomers squeal that their era of unsustainable record year after year growth is finally over Feels good to be a saverchad
My aunt messaged me out of the blue saying her son wanted a gaming PC and asked me what to get. But "she didn't want to spend too much". So I had to tell her to get a cheap PC without a dedicated GPU or a console.
>>748326880Probably THE card to get for 1080p
>>748313386>>748313596>MUH voteReminder that Russia is a democracyshit tier african country are democracy (maybe i don't care enough to know)America is a democracyEurope is a democracy inside a democracy
>>748327191Don't be cruel man. That guy might kill himself when he realizes democracy is fake.
>>748327045My sister asked me to help her buy a good PC for her son but I told her prices were retarded and to wait, that was like a year ago sorry lil nephew nigga lol.
>5 years old PC>ok maybe it's time to update my mobo, cpu and ram.>mfw these pricesA RAM COST WHAT NOW?????HOW??
>>748327324bought my graphic card for 50% because bitcoin crashed, good old time, your sister skill issue
>>748327513It will get worse, brace for impact.
>>748327513they can't keep this running forever, people will never get dettered by this price to not build local AI instead of paying a 6 gorillions token taxe.
>>748327654SOOOO BUY NOW???
>>748327513Were you living under a rock?
>>748327819I've been too busy playing video games
>>748312141when the orange kike loses and his sky kike god jesus gets 0 worshipjesus is a liar and not omnipotent
How can I make it so my 1080 gtx doesn't die? I'm afraid if it does...
>>748327810Can you afford waiting for multiple years?This will also include other kinds of electronics.
>>748312775Why are so many people like this? Cuckolded to "iT's the NeeewWWW NORMAL!!!!!!!! suCK IT UP BUTTERCUP!!!!" almost like it makes them happy? I really can't understand the thought process for the life of me.As for the "get a job" bit, yeah bro this isn't 2021-2022 anymore. If you're a white male most especially, it's well beyond over for you.
The ai investments and the bitcoin mining shit has totally fucked the prices
>>748328307because elections are pageantry and most people have learned resigned helplessnessthe only thing republicans and democrats will ever agree on is sending gorillions to israel so all that's left for the people is a painful, plodding, grinding decline in living standards.
But have you considered that people you don't like are also suffering? You just need to hold on a little bit longer, and continue to suffer. Just keep suffering bro, you're strong, right? They're not - they'll KTS soon enough, and when they're all gone, then prices will go down, and you'll live in paradise. :^)
>>748328307I'm sure you, the random 4chan poster, are currently in an anti-government revolutionary terrorist group. Not sure why you're posting about it though. That is not smart in our current surveillance society.
>>748327513Buy now, even if you need to finance. Is better to bite the bullet now and not wait for another bullshit price rise because AI need more chips or the orange nigger war keeps going.Best case scenario is everything fixes and just have to pay it back. Worst one is everything turbo fucks and you get locked from mid-high end parts forever.
>>748328347doesn't help that the memory manufacturing cabal went full-send and let the corporations buy up everything for several years, just completely fucking the consumer market. even vehicle manufacturers are dealing with this shit, and it will naturally trickle on down to use lowly peons, as if modern cars weren't overpriced chintzy shit already.
really regret settling for a 5070ti, I just need a BIT more and then I can comfortably gayme @ 4k.
>get a job>okay>try to get job>can't>no jobsGuess I'll die.
so is it going down or not? i didn't buy during lockdown when video card prices spiked cuz i thought it'd get cheaper but it's gotten many times more expensive since then
>>748328993if you can stop smoking weed then just get your CDL. That's always my backup if everything just falls through for some reason.
>>748328443You must not be American. They also agree on everything else. The only real thing they don't agree on is who gets taxed and who receives the government moneyThough isn't this the story of all western countries? Conservatives politicians are nothing but talk. They kowtow to liberal media figures, corporate finance and/or the jewish lobby, all of whom want open borders, free trade, social liberalism, etc. At the end of the day they're indistinguishable from that which they rail against, and the elections are more about vibes than they are policy
>consider consooming a new GPU>but don't really need it, all I play are the same 3 games that warrant the need to use a GPU and they all already run great, so I'll just be playing at higher framerates>also mostly play indie kino that even runs on my phoneI want to consoom but I know it would be retarded to do soits just out of principles I'm not paying these pricesfucking retards stop buying at these prices fuckliterally the scabs of the computer world
sneed
>>748312775Can't, fucking your mom takes up all of my time
>>748330343bodied the wagie
>>748312141>>$400 for a high capacity hard drive (read:NOT ssd)This is bad? I paid €500/drive for my 12TB HDDs back in 2022-2023.
>>748312141When you get off your ass and protest something that isn't irrelevant and supported by media key jangling (AKA never)
>>748312775do you unironically, genuinely, seriously believe that people aren't applying to jobs?
>>748312141buy 200 dollar office pc put rx 6600 or rx 7600 in it put on linuxor put on win 10 lstc and put in gtx 1060 1070 1070 ti 1080 or 1080 ti and pirate everything lol
> 1060 3GB since 2017> Still playing tf2 at low settings> Life is fine
>start of 2026>im gonna update my whole rig finally, ive got money>hmm let me wait til i do my taxes>everything immediately shoots up in price by x5 like a week later and never came back down
>>748312775Fine, what is not impossible to get into, and won't kill my body or make me want to kill myself and pays enough to live on and afford occasional luxuries?
oh no no no no
>>748329102It's going to keep going up....Inb4 "muh ai bubble pop"It's not popping lad
>>748331927this is genuinely a bad idea since llms don't possess any innate knowledge or capacity for understanding. not only is there a serious risk of tacit knowledge loss after decades of this, there is also a separate issue of people not understanding how an entire system operates simply because "the ai handles the coding". haven't even gotten into how any bugs overlooked by the system can be propagated across just about every site/program coded by the llm.
>>748312141Literally everything is expensive now.>Gas>Food>RAM and tech in general>HousingLike I don't think shit has ever been this dire before. We've had economic crises before but it felt like you could at least got one of the four back then, not be squeezed out of all of them.
>tfw i boughtered and built a high tier computer before the RAMpocalypse Feel good
>>748332816Well before you didn't have fifty wars happening simultaneously perfectly fucking everything up for everybody.
>>748313386triggered the chudtard larpers with this one
>>748331732how the fuck can't a 1060 play a game like tf on high settings?
>>748312141As long as billionaires are still alive.There is no turning back to the old times.
