I want to upgrade my PC by late 2026, hope the AI bubble has burst by then.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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Man, prices are going to be so nice once the bubble bursts.
Investing in bread before it hits €30 per loaf
Damn, I got lucky. I rebuilt my PC like a couple weeks before the prices shot way up...
I’m so glad I bought my new RAM sticks at the beginning of the year… I also heard that there will be only 10% of all SSDs produced avaliable for purchase for retail in 2026, because all the rest has already been purchased for AI datacenters. Hopefully they only do that towards the NVME SSDs, cause I am needing another SATA SSD for the rest of my Steam Library (my motherboard is old and only has one M.2 slot).
My takeaway here is that I can get free SSDs by breaking into an AI datacenter. Side effect: this also breaks the AI. Win-win!
You might actually have a very decent plan here...
I was glad when crypto hype died down and folk could buy graphics cards again.
Now this. They can fuck off.
Everyone turn your AI off in your search engine. Avoid AI, don't encourage this shit. Bubble will pop quicker.
There are some serious cabals controlling the prices. These price crunches aren't just due to AI, but greed from memory kit manufacturers waiting to see how high they can get the price to go just by letting the AI industry create scarcity.
The whole entire PC manufacturing industry needs to be decentralized, and this is what happens when countries don't set up their own competitive semiconductor industries but just allow themselves to be manipulated by a few centralized cabals. Good luck trying to prosecute any of these scumbags for anti-competitive practices nowadays.