Thanks to voracious demand from AI hyperscalers, PC part prices are on a steep rise – not just RAM, but also SSDs and hard drives, as well as GPUs. And at the same time, availability seems to be waning on multiple components, with seemingly no end in sight — unless you can somehow see into 2027 or beyond. So you probably don't want to replace your key components any time soon, as long as they are good enough to get you by.
I'm certainly hoping nothing happens to the RTX 4090, 64GB of RAM, and the Ryzen 9 7950X in my main system in the next year or two. Or at least until we know a lot more about what comes after Intel's Nova Lake, and AMD's Zen 6 on the consumer side, which also might be around the time that we'll be seeing new gaming GPUs from Nvidia.
