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Are hardware prices affecting your upgrade plans?

Are hardware prices affecting your upgrade plans?

  • No. I'm upgrading my PC soon.

    Votes: 7 4.0%

  • I'm upgrading soon, but with less RAM or VRAM.

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • I have delayed my upgrade plans.

    Votes: 40 22.9%

  • I'm satisfied with my current PC.

    Votes: 117 66.9%

  • I'm selling my RAM and retiring to the Bahamas.

    Votes: 10 5.7%
  • Total voters
    175
Before December of 2025 yes which was why I was still using my 9 year+ pc. But managed to get a amazing new pre built pc for less than Mrsp even on December and easily set for even next gen since I'm staying on 1440p.
 
still waiting for a 4090/5090 at a decent price

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Maybe a new option for I already upgraded. I upgraded sooner and bought higher than I normally would because of all this.
 
I anticipated the price increases on memory and other things, so I bought anything I wanted last black friday while things were still good.

Mainly bought just a PC case, 3 30tb hdds and ssds for my server, re-using parts from my old 2019 PC for the rest of it. Won't need to upgrade this thing for years.

Only thing I want down the line that could be effected by pricing is maybe the ultrawide monitor at the end of the year, but I doubt prices on those will increase like memory.
 
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OP, not to be that guy, but the price changes (or more like rumors of them) did affect my upgrade plans. I had no intention of upgrading from my RTX 3080, but I pulled the trigger on a 5070ti a couple weeks ago. Didn't see a poll option for exactly that. I voted "not upgrading my current PC".

In hindsight, especially with the 5070ti being discontinued, it was an even better call than I thought it was going to be.

I do only have 16gb of RAM, but it hasn't been an issue for my gaming (yet).
 
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  • PC: 5800X3D / 32 GB / 7900XT
  • PlayStation 5 Professional
  • Switch 2
I'm good for awhile. If anything I'd swap the 7900 for a 9070 just for FSR4 but I guess I'll just hold onto that sweet 20GB of VRAM for now
 
My laptop broke down about a year ago, and soon after I was able to snag a good deal on a new one with a 5060 and 32GB of RAM. Added some additional storage right away, so I'm set. The current situation is kinda beneficial to me as I assume this hardware will last me a good while.
 
My planning of upgrades doesn't go beyond finding that something I want to play runs like shit, then I upgrade. I figure that probably won't happen at least until next gen consoles come out.

If the prices are still stupidly inflated when that happens, I'll just read a book or something instead I guess.
 
Over the past few years I've upgraded just about everything except for my videocard (rtx 3090). It still gets the job done for now so I'm leaning towards just waiting for the RTX 60 series. There's the rtx 5090 but I don't like how power hungry it is and the heat output, not to mention the price. There's the rtx 5080, but the 16gb vram would be a sizeable downgrade. Not to mention I've been avoiding the new 12v-2x6 connector so far but I guess there won't be much choice.

Other than the videocard I've got a 9800X3D + 64GB 6000mhz CL30 + 4TB Samsung 9100 Pro and my current hardware should last for a long time.
 
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Celcius said:
There's the rtx 5090 but I don't like how power hungry it is and the heat output, not to mention the price.
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I have my 5090's at 83% power limit and undervolt at around 950v@2750mhz. It does around 450w max in path tracing-heavy games like Indiana Jones, and around 60 celcius max, and i'm only losing around 2-5 % of stock performance when keeping them this cool.
 
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I have my 5090's at 83% power limit and undervolt at around 950v@2750mhz. It does around 450w max in path tracing-heavy games like Indiana Jones, and around 60 celcius max, and i'm only losing around 2-5 % of stock performance when keeping them this cool.
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I currently power limit my 3090 to 80% and will def do the same on my next card as well
 
I have the following components sitting around:

2 x 2TB nvme
Slow ass 32GB DDR5 memory

I'm thinking of picking up a 5080 and a MSI tomahawk wifi in a few months.
 
PC1: 5090 / 9950X3D / 32GB / 980Pro / 1500W

PC2: 4090 / 7800X3D / 32GB / 990Pro / 1000W

No upgrade plans for the near future.

I do want a new monitor and TV though, but it never feels like it's the right time, there is so much happening in screen tech. A Gsync Pulsar screen would be interesting.
 
Not right now, but in the future I'm eyeing the Steam Machine/SteamDeck 2/Ps6/Ps6 Portable/Switch 2 OLED etc.

If prices just keep going up I assume it will.
 
Was going to get a gpu in November and then move to AM5 in a year or 2. with the uncertainty I decided against the gpu upgrade and will try and stick it out with my 3070 which should last me till the ps6 comes out.then I'll reevaluate where I want to play new games.
 
Not really, I have a laptop from work and I don't plan to buy another desktop PC for myself. Currently happy with playing mostly on PS5 and I wouldn't mind if the generation was extended by a year (or more).

Maybe my plan of getting a Steam Machine is drifting away, but to be honest it wasn't something I was confident about, especially with having to slowly build my library of PC games after being a console gamer for so many years.
 
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I was planning to wait to build a new computer, because I figured that I'd waited long enough on the 5080 that I might as well hold out until the Super or the 6-series launches. But last month, it became clear that this wasn't going to be a winning strategy, so I bought the video card, RAM, and SSD and will be finishing off the rest of the new build soon. I really didn't want to build a new computer just yet, but eh... I either do it now or suffer with my current POS computer for another year+. I ain't doing that.
 
Recently upgraded from a 6900XT to a 9070 in late November. $560 for a Powercolor Hellhound was a pretty good deal at the time and with my UV / pl increase I'm pretty much at stock XT performance at 250w vs XT's 300+ so I can't complain. My 11900k and 32gb DDR4 will have to hold me over otherwise, but since I play at 4k the GPU is always my biggest concern. VRAM stagnation is killing me though, went from three 8gb cards (RX580 > Vega 56 > Vega 64) to now three 16gb cards in a row (Radeon VII > 6900XT > 9070).
 
Yes.

I was waiting on 4TB NVMe drives (high end, PCIe 4.0) to drop to around $200 for Black Friday (they were ~250 or so then). They went the other way.

I also upgraded to a 5070 in December, partially because of 'fears' that GPU prices would move higher in 2026.

And I was planning on a major PC upgrade (new board, CPU, RAM from DDR4 to DDR5) in 2026 but I'm going to slow play it a bit.
 
I'm set with my PC. I had good timing with ram thank goodness. I was going to upgrade one of the 5tb drive in my NAS to 18tb but that price jumped for on 160 to 350. Nah. I'll wait.

Upgrading isn't fun anymore at these prices
 
I'm upgrading soon. I've been putting it off for a while, but even when I first looked into it the parts I wanted were already expensive and they've only gone up since. At this point I'm paying more than I'd like either way, so I might as well bite the bullet and move on.
 
Luckily in recent years I've managed to build my PC very well, 7800X3D, Ram 64 GB, plenty space with hdd and ssd and just grabbed 5080 for a decent price around the holidays just to be safe, replacing the 4070Ti mainly for the 16 GB VRAM. Pretty happy with it as it turns out it's actually a rather nice upgrade to push the 4K OLED as well with the multi framegen after testing.
 
Gaming prices in general are affecting my gaming.

Prices are rising across the board (besides the standout that is PC games themselves, thank goodness), and it's reaching the point where gaming is costing the same as other hobbies or plans in my life, and I don't know if the slop we are getting is worth it. Hardware costs increasing is just another stick in the fire for me.
 
My upgrade plans? They died somewhere between "RTX 50xx" and "inflation" :messenger_grinning_sweat: I think I'm still rocking my 1080p faithful until at least 2027.
 
i upgraded last year to a 9950X3D, 64GB RAM, and RTX 5090. also have 5TB storage.

also got a Switch 2 at launch. probably won't buy a Playstation again though when next gen comes around. my PS5 has mostly been sitting unused. only really turn it on for youtube now
 
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If anything, FOMO of rising prices lit a fire under me to upgrade earlier, but I ended up just getting Switch 2 and capping it there (before its own price hike).

I was tempted to grab more RAM or a graphics card last month, seeing what was coming, but talked myself down. I think I'll make it with an 8GB card and 16GB of RAM. I have so many ways to play games, and it's just games, I'm set for a long haul until/if things get better. My specs still meet or exceed a Steam Machine, and the only genre that really pushes my PC is FPS. It doesn't make any difference for the tower defense, RTS or indie games I specifically need a PC for. I just hope my hardware holds up, but even then I have a backup 1060 and 1080. Which might not sound very good, but you can still play Starcraft and Megabonk with it.

I'll strike when a fair deal pops up, which might be a very long time, but I can wait that long.
 
I don't have a pc but was planning to get a steam
Machine if the price isn't bad. This makes it less likely that the price will be good so it impacts me in that way.
 
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