Graphics card price?
I've been wanting to try to build my own gaming PC but all the graphics cards I see are crazy expensive. Is that normal?
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SomeMichGuy · M
No.
There are several problems...
1) CoViD has interrupted supply chains, and semiconductor chips have figured prominently in this madness.
2a) Allowing the domestic industry to be battered by chip dumping, then off-shoring...
2b) Costs of setting up new lines...
3) The death of places like Fry's, which used to be a place where you could walk in, grab a cart, and get all the parts you wanted to build your own computer. This is before they put in coffee shops, then started a slide which ended with them being a consignment shop...
So yeah, it sucks. Sorry.
There are several problems...
1) CoViD has interrupted supply chains, and semiconductor chips have figured prominently in this madness.
2a) Allowing the domestic industry to be battered by chip dumping, then off-shoring...
2b) Costs of setting up new lines...
3) The death of places like Fry's, which used to be a place where you could walk in, grab a cart, and get all the parts you wanted to build your own computer. This is before they put in coffee shops, then started a slide which ended with them being a consignment shop...
So yeah, it sucks. Sorry.