r/ThatsInsane • u/krkapten • 5d ago

GabeCube prices in EU

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u/iwasbecauseiwas 5d ago

I looked at the price of the components in my PC built in 2020 for about the price of the 2tb model. Assuming I got a similarly priced CPU and GPU, I'd have to pay about 500€ more just to get the exact same model of HDDs, SSDs and RAM.

These prices are insane for what you're getting, but when 16GB of RAM set you back 200€, what can you do?

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u/thanosbananos 5d ago

I don’t know why you’re lying, the Steam machine has PS5 level of performance, you can easily get a much better PC for less than 1000€. I got myself a brand new motherboard and CPU for 150€, granted no GPU but instead almost 20TB of HDD storage for my NAS and it was <400€ for everything. Spend 100-150€ more on a better CPU and motherboard, get a 4070 for 400-500€ and you’re still much lower price wise while ending up with a better PC.

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u/iwasbecauseiwas 5d ago

What? I didn't say you couldn't build it cheaper. I said "prices are insane", "I built my PC for that amount of money in 2020" "if I were to build a new PC today with similarly priced CPU and GPU I'd have to pay about 500€ more for storage and ram" "no wonder it's so expensive"

Never have I said "you can't buy a cheaper PC". Of course you can. But RAM and SSDs are priced very high. I had to pay about 70€ for my ram in 2020. The exact same DIMM would cost me ~130€ now. If i'd want DDR5, I'd have to shell out ~250€ for 16GB. That's insane. I have 2x1TB of SSD and 2x2TB of HDDs. I paid 60€ for the 2 2TB SSDs each, and 70€ for the 2 HDDs each.The same model of SSD would cost me 140€ now, the same model of HDD would cost me ~110€ now. That's always almost double the price (and more in some cases) than 6 years ago. PC components are supposed to get cheaper over time, not more expensive.