Jesusaurus comments on $5,245 prebuilt RTX 5090 PC connectors melt after sitting boxed for a year, Digital Storm and PNY deny warranty claims

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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social -4 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Can someone explains why you would buy a computer for $5k? Gen-AI or something?

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The cost of RAM and GPUs are up a shitload. This would likely be a $2500-3000 build normally, before gouging. The x090 series I think we're getting as high as $1500-2k by themselves, before "inflation" which was ridiculous.

If it were boxed for a year, it was inflated prices but not a bad as now, it could likely be $6-7k now. I reluctantly bought ram last August at $180 for 64GB DDR5, which made me cringe, but Newegg still carries out, and it's over $1000 now 🤮

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[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

Sounds like a good investment that's worth selling now

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

I wish!! Work devices... I've been buying PCs with DDR4 RAM to avoid the price gouging at this point.