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[–] • 0 pt 4y (edited 4y)

Prices on PC parts are inflated across the board. Right now you're best off buying a pre-built gaming PC from Dell or some other company if you want to pay anything close to MSRP. Just remember to pick one with an AMD Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 processor.

Because everyone is having to upgrade their home computers right now for work, school, or entertainment to not go stir crazy.

If you don't need a video card this is the cheapest system you'll find.

https://www.costco.com/hp-pavilion-desktop---amd-ryzen-5-4600g.product.100701481.html

Edit, if you want an explanation of the chip & part shortage you can watch this tech guy explain it.

I Was RIGHT!!!! (and I hate it) [13:28](youtu.be)

Also:

This might be the ONLY way to get a GPU... [15:11](youtu.be)

[–] • 1 pt 4y

Thanks, thats pretty reasonable. But I've decided to just hold onto the r9 390x and upgrade my outdated fx8120 to an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X + new mobo for new socket and some DDR4 to replace DDR3

[–] • 1 pt 4y

As an owner of the previous gen Ryzen 5 3600, I can say you should enjoy that Ryzen 5 5600X.

Just a heads up with SSDs, if you're going to buy an SSD make sure you get a Gen 4 for you main drive. I accidentally made this mistake & now I have a pricey Samsung Evo plus as my second drive for gaming. When I upgraded my main to a Gen 4 that is noticeably faster.

Sometime next year I'm going to upgrade to a Ryzen 9 5950x. I'll use my current CPU, that Samsung SSD and a few other parts to build another system for my family.