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To: FJB who wrote (1217)	7/20/2023 5:14:51 PM
From: nicewatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1316

Yeah, and the trend has been lower all year for most PC component pricing, some more than others, and SSD arguably down the most. Don't have a crystal ball but my gut says the pricing curve is lower for now and favors builders and hobbyists like us, at least through year end and likely into early next. Because it might take that long to blow through inventory getting staler by the day. And I'd add all aspects... new rigs that need to be liquidated, off lease rigs that are legit deals again, most component prices, laptop deals, etc. If anything I spent my first $500 on parts too soon this year, and just spent another $200! lol. But some parts I genuinely needed. ;-) Been buying mini-PCs lately on sale. Most are barebones and will add my own NVME and RAM. Various CPU performance varying from good to almost great but bought as cheap as possible. Some will be used and others gifted. One can use PCIe 5.0 NVME SSD which I am not anxious to buy yet, don't see the need considering the premium and potential heat issues. A few more can read DDR5 Ram, so that will be a new adventure for me buying that. The mini-PCs generally say max 64GB with two slots, but that was before the 48GB DDR5 SO-DIMM stick was released, so I'm thinking I should be able to get 96GB RAM out of the DDR5 reading mini-PCs and that's a decent number for a box that weighs ~2 pounds and can be held in one hand. BWDIK? You'll love the next post!