I am going to have to bite the bullet and over pay for the two last HDDs in my current NAS build, which I started building a year ago ):

Maybe 2030. I feel like everyone's hoping things are priced better by 2030

There’s a comm with PC gaming hardware deals. Mac user here, but I’ve seen some pretty good deals. Haven’t built in 10 years but the itch never fully goes away. I think I saw an i7 for like $300, couldn’t tell what generation though. That’s not bad. I think my 4th gen Xeon was like $275? I prefer Xeon to i7 but my preferences are years out of date.

I am due a new PC. Got a GTX1080, which still does alright, but I am now 10 years with this PC. But I can't, and I won't. These prices are stupid.

My rog ally x is good enough at this point

I profoundly dislike the philosophy of renting rather than owning your compute, but with the current price of components, I just can't be bothered to buy a gaming PC. I have a steam deck and a £10 subscription to GeForce now, and with this I'm sorted for pretty much anything.

For the £120 that it costs me a year, I could barely buy a 16 GB RAM stick, let alone a 3060 RTX... It would cost me 10-15 years worth of the subscription to buy something equivalent and there's no way anything with those specs is staying relevant any longer than 5.

Early this year, i lost my PSU, Motherboard and GPU, all in once, i didn't plan to change my 2060 anytime soon since it was running my games and modlists flawless.

Now than i have bought a 16GB Vram GPU, ain't planning to buy anything before the RAM prices at least get stable