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Come on,AMD, where the hell are your budget X3D chips?
Actually, scrap that - where are the Ryzen 3 series, or even the 5 series?
Cheap as chips, as the British say.
No G-series chips standing in pretending to be something it’s not, aimed ateSportsgamers.
Motherboards, RAM, SSDs, PSUs, cases, you name it.
It introduces this weird, almost pseudo-elitism to it all.
PC building is fun, but not every custom computer has to be a powerhouse machine.
Sorry, you and your family don’t have the financial clout to be PC gamers anymore.
Perhaps you should try looking at becoming more socially mobile instead.
I get it; PCs are expensive things.
As our transistor size shrinks, processors become increasingly difficult and more expensive to fabricate.
But I got into this space because my house got struck by lightning when I was young.
I soon followed in his footsteps, and 25 years later here I am.
Trying to do that today with the latest hardware, though?
Stagflation Disaster
Inflation and stagnation haven’t helped this whole situation either.
In the last decade, we’ve seen general inflation climb by around 40%.
And that’s before the US’s general purpose and directed tariffs come into play later this year.
Over the years I’ve watched as builds have become more expensive.
Instead, we go: “Awh, how kind?
They understand the current inflationary pressures and are giving us a deal”.
That’s not helpful.
Just imagine it, though.
A Ryzen 3 9300X.
What a dream that would be - but one that sadly, remains just that: a dream.
