European here. I’m pretty content with my setup (Ryzen5 3600XT, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060… I play in 1080p) for the games I’m playing at the moment, and I don’t plan on playing many AAAA games in the future. BUT. With the recent tariffs flying around, China denying rare earths, etc etc I fear we might see an increase in hardware prices like we had with covid, so I was thinking on upgrading at least CPU+VGA; more than FOMO let’s say is Fear Of Being Overpriced. What do you think, should I upgrade now that things looks a little more relaxed? Will the whole mess involve only the USA or everyone cause globalization?

    • iopq@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Not buying at all saves even more money.

      A 3080 was great value if you somehow got one on release in 2020 for $700

      A 9070 xt, if you can get one even for $700 will beat the 3090 even in a lot of ray tracing games

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        9 hours ago

        That’s why when I’m deciding to buy something I always end up not buying it 10 times. So when I finally buy it I’m still saving 9x the amount of money.