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Why is everything getting more expensive? 2017-08-11 08:50:34 Post No. 61855700
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I bought my computer in January 2015. Almost every component in it has only gotten more expensive since.
I have an i7-4790k. I paid 349€ for it. Right now in the same store I bought it from it's 429€
I have a Dell U2415 monitor. I paid 314€ for it. Right now in the same store I bought it from it's 345€
I have a GTX970. The kind is no longer sold by the store I bought it in, but I checked right before the 1070 came out (which was maybe 18 months after I bought it) and it was 30 euros more than I had paid for it.
I understand the cryptocurrencies affecting GPU prices, but CPUs and monitors too? These are not newer versions nor were any of them on sale when I bought them. Why is this happening?
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>>61855700
The only people who buy individual computer components are enthusiasts. Have fun paying enthusiast prices.
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>>61855700
>€
Euro is getting weaker compared to dollar.
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>>61855700
RAM prices ramped because of smartphones.
GPU prices ramped because of the crypto fever.
Monitors are a marginal and very slow market, prices rarely go down.
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>>61855700
>Euro
that's your problem
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>>61855793
Not really bud
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>>61855763
This is false. Generally parts are cheaper individually if you're smart enough to not blindly buy shit. If you were a enthusiast under your definition you would know this
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>>61855826
> I bought my computer in January 2015
> 6 months graph
you aren't very smart are you
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>>61855763
But that was true 2 years ago as well
>>61855793
Not really. The day I bought my PC 1€ was $1.17. Today 1€ is $1.18.
It is possible they got their inventory in the fall of 2014 when EUR was ~$1.25 but I don't see that as a big enough difference to explain why old technology is not only keeping its value but going up.
>>61855801
That explains the RAM I guess. You're right about monitors, but a price hike of 30€?
>>61855862
Not me.
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>>61855893
I don't know about the monitor, honestly. I can only say that they don't generally depreciate very much.
I bought an asus PA238q back in 2012 but now it's just 50€ cheaper than 5 yrs ago.
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