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Is it the right moment to buy? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 1 day ago by SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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European here. I'm pretty content with my setup (Ryzen5 3600XT, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060... I play in 1080p) for the games I'm playing at the moment, and I don't plan on playing many AAAA games in the future. BUT. With the recent tariffs flying around, China denying rare earths, etc etc I fear we might see an increase in hardware prices like we had with covid, so I was thinking on upgrading at least CPU+VGA; more than FOMO let's say is Fear Of Being Overpriced. What do you think, should I upgrade now that things looks a little more relaxed? Will the whole mess involve only the USA or everyone cause globalization?

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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Id prioritize GPU above all the other parts. That is going to be the single biggest price hike IMO.

Any CPU you can drop in your existing motherboard is likely already in your country and shouldn't be affected by any tarriffs, AM4 CPUs are no longer being manufactured AFAIK.

DDR4 RAM is fairly cheap at this point, adding another 16GB would be good, more than 32GB total isn't really gonna improve performance much.

Going to full NVME storage (if you are using a SATA SSD/HDD) is also a pretty big upgrade.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 17 hours ago

You're right about the CPU, hadn't thought about that.