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points by fyonn 3 days ago | 0 comments

I certainly feel that I wasn't ripped off when in Feb this year, HP sold me this Omen desktop (https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/products/desktops/omen-35l-gam...) with a 9800x3d, rtx5080, 2TB SSD and 128GB?! of Kingston fury ram for £2700... with four years interest free credit...

it's now selling for £2300 more than when I bought it...

I didn't even want 128GB of ram... it just came with the pre-built spec I chose... I feel like they sold me the GPU and half the ram, and then threw in the rest for free! it's my deal of the decade...

half wish I'd stretched for the one with the 5090 now... :)

[–] vonneumannstan 2 days ago

Not sure this demonstrates that HP gave you a deal so much as RAM and GPU prices have skyrocketed since then...

[–] fyonn 2 days ago

GPU and ram prices have certainly gone up since then, but they were also were high even then. I put that spec into pcpartpicker the day I bought it and was was over £3800... I think they'd set the prices the year before when they built the PCs and didn't update them...

[–] adlep 3 days ago

not just you, all of us. the thing is that there will be more demand on what is available on the market: make sure to check and have at least some reference. Seems that hardware pricing will become more so like commodity/stock market.