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    The PC market has shrunk 80-90% in one year.

    The cost of GPU’s and memory increased 5-10x in 1 year. What did you expect?

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      Also the old stuff still works great if you aren’t running AI. Hell I have a FX-8350 and a 1060 which is just fine for most things…and I think that CPU is from 2015.

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      Not just GPUs. This time is RAM and storage are also massively inflated because they’re allocated for a product that nobody really wants and nobody wants to pay for.