Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.
  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    I saw the lenovo thing on slashdot. I would link the articles directly but they all have paywalls for me https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/24/154202/lenovo-stockpiling-pc-memory-due-to-unprecedented-ai-squeeze

    The tariff thing has been astounding. The amount of announcements, exceptions and cancellations has made it nearly impossible to keep up. I think we just exempted brazilian beef and some other thing? Plus I believe semiconductors still have total exemption- sure maybe a GPU has a buck of tariffs on the aluminum in it but that’s nothing lol.

    I had friends looking to build computers 6 months ago and balking at GPU prices. The prices overall today are just cheaper, unless you were not buying a GPU. CPU prices have come down a tiny bit too.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I… am an econometrician, programmer and hardcore gamer, rofl.

      Yeah, watching this has been fucking insane.

      I used to work for a major international logistics company, made the reports for C Suite.

      I guarantee you people at my old firm were literally pulling out their hair when the de minimis exemption got annulled.

      … anyway, as far as PC builds go?

      Here’s the best possible bang for your buck, as far as I can tell:

      Minisforum BD790i se, + RX 9070.

      Put that, a 600W PSU, 32 gb sys ram, 1 or 2 TB SSD, and a big ole fan on top of the cpu, all inside an ITX lunchbox?

      ~$1500, and that’ll get you over 60 fps on nearly anything, at nearly any settings level, at 1440p. Most games you’ll be over 90 or 120fps.

      Its more or less a Steam Machine on steroids.

      … presuming you are running Linux, lol.