I built a new PC about two years ago, and I probably got it at the last possible opportunity for a while. CPU and motherboard have come down by maybe £100 in between the two of them, but a 7900 xtx (or any other 24GB GPU) for under £1,000 now seems like a bargain, and £180 for 64GB of DDR5 makes me feel like an old man talking about the halcyon days.

I built my current PC the day that the AM5 platform released, for about $6k not including the 3090 I moved over from the previous rig.

If I sold just the two sticks of RAM in it right now, it’d pay for nearly half of the total cost.