01/07/2026
Well it's been fun. But officially I'm not doing this anymore. I really just made this page to show off my builds. But now I won't be building anymore gaming computers for awhile, maybe even ever again, depending on the market. Let's see.
First RAM prices have gone up 700%. Everyone is saying AI is the problem. I'm sure it doesn't help but, AI companies don't build gaming computers. Even workstations don't use DDR5 non ECC RAM. As for GPU price increases because of RAM shortage is bullocks. You're going to have ECC RAM in your workstation, and really HBM on GPU's is better for AI training not Vram. Now if they said something like yes we're going to take the lines creating the DDR5 RAM and convert them to either HBM products or ECC. That would make sense, if there wasn't so much DDR5 available. I don't see a shortage, go do a search on online retailers that sell DDR5. You'll scroll and scroll and scroll and keep scrolling to find the end.
What I think is going on. It's just pure and simple corporate greed. And I understand that they have to make money for the investors. But chasing the next big thing has never worked out in the long run. They will have a bubble that will burst just like before with the IT bubble. Then Nvidia says, " hold my beer fellas. Lemme show you how it's done " decreases production 40% on GPU's. Then raises the price of the flagship 5090 from 3000 to 5000 dollars. Just so they could squeeze every penny they can from their customers. I'm just done with it. Every year corporations are coming up with ways to raise prices cause shortages screw over customers Corsair listed RAM for 220 dollars last week. People bought the RAM was a good deal in this climate. When they found out they cancelled the sales, came up with a BS excuse that their scam software flagged it as a scam so they had to cancel. That doesn't even make sense. You posted the price. And if you didn't and let your AI do it, you sir deserve to be scammed. So ya I'm just done. My sign will read Gone fishing. Cause that's what I'm doing.
If everything settles down in the next year, I might go back to it. But I'm thinking about how these kinds of things are here to stay. Or at the very least this up and down cycle that has been going on for awhile now. I'll probably just post fishing pictures and stuff now. Maybe when I do upgrade my PC I'll post that. But I haven't really been that regular as it is lately. But just figured if anyone did care and saw my builds I'd give everyone a reason why you won't see as many computers and more just fishing, drones. And whatever else I can think of.
To this if anyone wants a gaming computer built, I'll still do it. But I won't be building first then selling or using my own money. If you want me to build one, I'll help with parts picking, and will assemble it for you. But that's about all. And really right now I wouldn't suggest anyone to build a gaming rig right now anyway.
I'll leave a few pics of the latest builds here I have one more. I haven't photo'd yet. I'll post my last build here in a few days, good luck all and if you did come to see the builds thanks I appreciate it.
