2018 - No Budget For Gaming Computers

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Looking at the way the marketplace for computer gaming components is behaving towards the end consumer, seems now it is the worst time if you want to build your own gaming machine.

DDR pricing along with graphics cards makes one wonder on the beginning of 2018 that previous year has been a wild journey for the computer tech industry, not just for the usual tech giants, but also consumers.

Just as I write this article I wander around some of the go-to online shops to buy a gaming computer component, just to find every GPU out of stock. Gets worse, graphics cards pricing changed from eventually starting to relax in the late months of 2017 to get along to 2018 past absolutely berserk and it is absolutely damaging than ever for budget seekers.

There are a few motives for why this has happened and these intentions have all come collectively to create the ideal marketplace typhoon. These troubles involve cryptocurrency mining and elevated memory production prices to start.

The tale of cryptocurrency mining profitability is way up the trending scale right now, with nearly every miner snapping up each last GPU they could get.

The DDR memory pricing, which has been pushed up due to a loss of supply at the same a time of an excessive call of consumers, fixed well above any expectations in the beginning of 2018, and in equal matters, I am absolutely amazed to see what will happen with GDDR5 memory and the anticipated RAM scarcity that will boom the cost of every single GPU, from low budget to high-end graphics cards.

Miners and gamers are supposed to be tech enthusiasts, but game supporters appear to be pointing the finger in every direction. After all, a few different strategies should have taken place before this turned into an actual serious supply/consumer failure case for a lot of people.