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There are articles on the net talking about the end of the custom building market, one of the reasons was economical factors. It seems like every new release from both Intel and AMD these years bumps up the respective price brackets by a not insubstantial amount. A lot of AMD cpus have surprised users here with their asking prices, and that is for a company who has the underhand. Memory prices are exceedingly bad as well, but that doesn't seem to impact the price/performance bargain of new tablets. There was also the industry-wide mechanical HDD price fixing two years ago.
I was looking into building an A8 7600 mini-itx system, but the price of 2133mhz ram today has prohibited that from happening. I have some spare 1600mhz ram lying around, but that wouldn't cut it for APUs.
Do note that these factors are separate from virtual currency mining.
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I'm wondering if this has to do with lowering their profit margins with massive discounts.It's true that losers outnumbered winners in PC sales figures last year, but the winners; Lenovo, HP, and Dell pulled away from the pack in a big way.
There are articles on the net talking about the end of the custom building market, one of the reasons was economical factors. It seems like every new release from both Intel and AMD these years bumps up the respective price brackets by a not insubstantial amount. A lot of AMD cpus have surprised users here with their asking prices, and that is for a company who has the underhand. Memory prices are exceedingly bad as well, but that doesn't seem to impact the price/performance bargain of new tablets. There was also the industry-wide mechanical HDD price fixing two years ago.
I was looking into building an A8 7600 mini-itx system, but the price of 2133mhz ram today has prohibited that from happening. I have some spare 1600mhz ram lying around, but that wouldn't cut it for APUs.
Do note that these factors are separate from virtual currency mining.
Discuss