Just wondering as computers are sorta my hobby and i like messing around with different ones. I havent in a while due to prices going up such as with ram usually. I dont mess with new tech, but i want to know what you guys do with the crazy prices out there? or are you already set before prices went up? Or are you just lucky in some form?

Just curious.

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I upgraded my desktop in a more-or-less "value" way (modulo going for SFF parts to make it more portable in case I needed to flee from the fascists or something like that -- and yes, that actually was my thought process), and got new cheap but sufficient minipcs for my kids and my parents.

However, if I had known it was gonna get this bad for tech specifically, I would've gone for a new motherboard with a 9800X3D and DDR5 in my desktop, instead of keeping my existing one and upgrading to a 5700X3D and 64GB of DDR4. Also, I might have gotten a 7900XTX instead of a 9070XT (they were roughly the same price at the time, but the 7900XTX is double the price now).

I would have pulled the trigger on the minipc NAS I was thinking about, as I literally had it and a bunch of SSDs in my Amazon cart but was waffling about it when the prices started skyrocketing.

I might have even bought one of those "strix halo" PCs with the 128GB of unified memory back when they were $2000 instead of $4000+.

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