Prosercunus
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Gaming laptops are looking better all the time.
This. I briefly considered a gaming laptop not long ago and I used to be vehemently opposed to such hardware.
Gaming laptops are looking better all the time.
The cryptoboom, along with this tail-end-of-a-generation spindown of production, is really ****ing with pricing and availability. We're probably going to get an Ampere announcement in the next three months, but unless cryptomining crashes (not just the price of the coins themselves) we're going to see sky high MSRPs.
6 months or so.Goddammit this pisses me off. I was just getting myself ready to buy a mean rig for VR next month. How long do I hold off for now?
To get a Gaming PC would require many components that I'll personally buy to have a stable/affordable price. This just hasn't been the case for many months now. Consoles that you mentioned did get pricey/supply-demand issue, but once you finally bought it, you had the complete package. For a PC, one component is just a piece of the puzzle. I'd have to keep my fingers crossed in the hope that I wont have to compromise on storage/display/memory etc.
Mining's been happening for years now, its not something recent. It affected AMD first, yes, 1 of the only 2 GPU vendors we have in the gaming industry. nvidia already charge a decent amount for their cards, this only fanned their fire. Its a long discussion
Lets get optimistic for 2018.
Wow this is nuts.. unheard of really, I had to look for myself sure enough on newegg and amazon 1070 were almost 1k. They had some for 550-600 range but they were all out of stock.On ebay new 1070s were a few hundred dollars cheaper.
Wow we have 1070Ti on sale for 499€. Month ago you could get 1080 for about 550€. Everything except vega seems to have plenty of stock, nice to live in a country with high taxes and high electricity cost.
Um, we were discussing price increases in single components. I have no idea why you are going on about the whole system but it's completely off topic.
Second, we were not discussing how long mining has been going on. It was about the price increase as a result of that mining. Obviously the price increases haven't been going on as long as mining has. Bitcoin's impact was reduced to zero when ASICs started coming out.
If you are going to comment on an existing discussion, please make sure to read all of the comments before jumping in. Your response was completely off topic.
1. Erm, because you need all the parts of a PC to make it work, unlike a console. Multiple parts with high prices difficult to buy than a single expensive console. Hope you got the idea now, cant make it simpler. Completely on topic!
2. ASICs were mainly for btc, not for alternate currencies that cropped up later, it started to affect the h/w industry and has been for the past few years. Not every miner has an ASIC. Simply cant ignore affect of mining.
3. I make sure to read all the comments, my was among the first in this thread and on topic. No need to start a war of words. When a topic gets discussed in-depth, the discussion is bound to get on the hows and whys of it.
Anyway, have a nice day.
Oh dear! the main article is essentially discussing PC Gaming h/w by parts (this is part 2 if you see). So it is a breakdown (not by price but by parts you collect to make a PC). Secondly, its centered around gaming and gamers who're currently looking to build/upgrade for 'Gaming'. A console, currently, seems a better option for 'Gaming', so does a gaming laptop (as one guy mentioned in the comments above). People have opinions.Off topic still. Once again, not discussing the full breakdown of PC part prices nor are we comparing PC pricing to console. This article has nothing to do with consoles nor did our discussion. Stop trying to bring in something irrelevant to the conversation.
Oh dear! the main article is essentially discussing PC Gaming h/w by parts (this is part 2 if you see). So it is a breakdown (not by price but by parts you collect to make a PC). Secondly, its centered around gaming and gamers who're currently looking to build/upgrade for 'Gaming'. A console, currently, seems a better option for 'Gaming', so does a gaming laptop (as one guy mentioned in the comments above). People have opinions.