Greetings. This article was painful to write. Every section hurt, and every section gets progressively more painful. But the truth can hurt, so read on. The consumer PC world is headed down a bad path: There is a major focus by PC part manufacturers to produce extremely expensive and overpowered products, with the mid-tiers and […]
Can you feel it? The change for PC builders, not very subtle, happening even as I type these words? The clouds have lifted. The sun is shining. The news is good. It is as follows:
At last! All modern GPUs are available for purchase, new, for MSRP. No more crying as you pay 2x or 3x the recommended price for a card. No more heartbreak as you buy a used card that has been sitting in a crypto farm for 2 years. No more sad checking on crypto prices, hoping […]
After a full eternity of waiting (two years), GPU prices have returned to something that closely resembles sanity. In-stock, decently priced, current-generation graphics cards are once again linked in almost every tier of our PC building chart!
GPU prices started going up (roughly) in March of 2020 when all hardware went up in price or went out-of-stock. It happened slowly at first, then faster and faster, until widespread unavailability became the norm! During the worst of the worst, it was so bad that you could not buy most graphics cards, no matter […]
After the past year, it really is a different world out there. So it should come as no surprise that the old, time-tested PC Shopping Wisdom doesn’t really apply today like it did even a few years ago. Gaming laptops? A good deal? Arguably, yes, they are now. Lack of component availability due to chip […]
Things are not looking ideal for anyone planning to build a PC. The world is in a global pandemic, and supply deficiencies are mixed with high demand. One of the categories that is affected the most is the GPU market: even the cheapest graphics cards from the latest generation are inflated in price to over […]
A little under 6 months ago, I wrote an article about the prices and stock shortage of graphics cards and the causes of that increase. Today, I take a look at what has been done by the manufacturers and retailers in this time, as well as what still needs to be done.
The goal of Logical Increments is to simplify the research process behind building the best PC for your budget. However, many commenters have pointed out that recently, graphics card prices have skyrocketed beyond their normal sticker price, and many models have gone completely out of stock. What is causing the problem? What to do if […]
