I agree, but it is out of warranty from Digital Storm. This is why I like to build my own machines, a year warranty seems very short.

I’d go to the part manufacturer if my system was out of warranty as well, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the part manufacturer turned my warranty claim down.

Exactly. It's the same reason why if your landlord hires a maintenance worker to do routine maintenance and they damage your property, you have to go after the landlord, not the contractor. It's the landlord's responsibility to go after their contractor.

Granted the landlord won't tell you that.

So true. Prebuilt computers are more expensive and this is supposed to be the reason why! If something goes wrong, you have one company to contact to get relief.

Considering how often these catch on fire, they should all be recalled.

PNY and Zotak are dead to me because of shit like this: Never buying their stuff again.

Nvidia literally doesn’t care about the consumer space anymore. It’s like 10% or less of their revenue now. They stopped reporting it as its own category it’s so bad.

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 🤮

Yeah gen ai,

Fucking gen ai drove up the prices and now I can't afford to upgrade my pc from 8 years ago. Because single pieces are 300 percent higher then 2 years ago.

VR also.

Flight simulator on VR with a 5090 is an experience

5k is almost less than that gpu alone goes for now brother... New dawn new age.

High-Quality 4K gaming in combination with live streaming your gaming sessions. Before the Rampocalypse this system would have costed a lot less. Nowadays the cheapest 5090 alone in my area costs more than that entire system - cheapest entry goes for around 6k€, with the cheapest 64GB DDR5 Kit @ 6000MT/s around 1k€. The Processor goes for around 600€. You wont put these components on a crap mainboard or an inadequate case or use a crappy PSU, so add around 1k€ for Mainboard, Case, Cooling and PSU.

We are now at around 9k with internal cabling when taking into account that you won't get the lowest price on every component, and you don't even have Storage, a monitor or adequate input devices. With all of that, were talking 11-12k at least.