Market Status

August 18th, 2023

Last Updated

This page will have a glance-able summary of the current PC part market and whether it is Ideal, Okay, or Bad to buy certain parts now.

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Overall New System Buys – Brand new systems

Processors – CPUs

Details:

Ryzen 7000 series is widely available. Older Ryzen 5000 series is good value.


Graphic Cards – GPUs

Details:

NVIDIA and AMD Radeon Launched their latest generations, RTX 4000 and RX 7000 series respectively, this past year. Supply has been easy to find so far. Hopefully AI hype does not change that.


Mainboards – Mobos

Details:

X650 and X670 boards launched with the Ryzen 7000 series


Memory – RAM

Details:

Memory prices are stable, and at an all time low


STORAGE– SSDs

Details:

PCI-E 4.0 NVMe drives are cheap, sometimes cheaper than PCI-E 3.0. PCI-E 5.0 NVMes are still coming out. They are very expensive comparably.