After February 2022, prices for computer equipment jumped.
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Retailers told Izvestia that the costcomponents for PCs in Russia has reached a minimum over the past four months. Experts believe that the reasons for this are the release of new models of processors and video cards, a decrease in mining profitability, a large volume of offers on the secondary market, and even an energy crisis in Europe and the United States.
Ozon claims that during October 20222009, average prices for PC components decreased by 18-37% compared to June. Video cards have become especially noticeably cheaper. Prices for hard drives fell by 29%, for processors and memory modules - by 18%. DDR4, for example, has become 45-50% cheaper. In general, experts believe that now is the best time to build a PC.
Editor-in-Chief Ferra.ru Evgeny Kharitonov calculated the difference in the assembly pricebudget PCAs a sample, I took a system with a Core i3 / Ryzen 5 processor and a Radeon RX 6600 / RTX 3060 graphics card.In June, such a PC cost about 84 thousand, in early November - already 59-60 thousand.That is, the configurationfell in price by about 28.5%.
If we talk aboutflagship computer— this is, for example, a Core i7 Alder Lake processor, a Z690 motherboard, 32 GB of RAM, an RTX 3080 12 GB graphics card — then the benefit is even greater.In June, such a PC cost 260 thousand rubles, now it is 180 thousand.That is, the difference is-thirty%. In particular, the processor fell in price by 20%, the video card - by 40%, RAM - by 30%.
A budget PC is worth picking up now becauseAMD and NVIDIA budget video cards will have to wait a long time - perhaps until the summer of 2023, while only the flagship ones from the new generations have been released. It is impossible to predict what exactly the exchange rates will be after 6-8 months, so you should decide on a purchase today. Moreover, according to rumors, budget processors (Intel Core i3 Raptor Lake) of the near future will be just renamed models of the current generation (Core i3 Alder Lake).
At the same time, new flagship video cards, suchThus, they will replace the old ones, and the old flagship ones will become the new “middle class” and fall in price. Accordingly, computers of an average (and slightly above average) level are now also very profitable.
Refrain from buying only those whoseeks to buy computers in the "maximum" configuration. Mainly because the prices for the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are still inflated due to the recent debut and the small number of copies on sale and stabilize in December-January. The same is true for processors - neither Intel Raptor Lake nor AMD Ryzen 7000 have yet flooded the market to the fullest. And in the case of AMD Ryzen 7000, an additional limitation is the shortage and high prices for non-alternative (for these processors) DDR5 RAM. As soon as the new Intel Raptor Lake and AMD Ryzen 7000 become cheaper and start to grow in sales, DDR5 and LSS systems will become cheaper due to more mass production. But this period will come no earlier than the winter of 2023.
Evgeny KharitonovEditor-in-chief of Ferra.ru