Windy city21h ago

Question for the knowledgeable folks: Is this a good time to build a PC?

I was talking to a friend and she said, "This is the lowest they'll be for a long time ahead so you might as well bite the bullet."

#askfedi #pc #linux #windows

Yes, prices are manageable
No, wait a month
(something else - comment)
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Show threadDźwiedziu21h ago
@pheonix
Is buying used an option?
Show threadWindy city
@dzwiedziu for this one, if the hardware is sufficiently new and well-used, why not. Just needs to be solid for a few years is all. I even plan to repurpose a small SSD I have lying around too.
Apr 7 at 8:36amWeb
Show threadDźwiedziu16h ago

@pheonix
Then a quick shortcut would be buying an post-corpo pancake PC, or a similar, like Intel NUC's or Minisforum.
Pretty much the only “consumable” would be fans.

The downside is that the parts like disk sleds, motherboards, chassis are pretty much all proprietary. You can find those or jury-rig it/3d print it, yet the earlier can be expensive, the middle time consuming (I have specific experience here) or latter no models existing.

Yet can be cheap and available, depending on req's.