Can you even get one now?
I built one back pre-christmas using ddr5 and onboard graphics. It wound out at about $500usd. Onboard Graphics which wasnt a dealbreaker for my wife but it was pretty ideal for a "rig now, gpu later" type plan.
If you skip a GPU maybe, no chance if you want to include one
I predict that almost everything will be about 6% more expensive by 2028. That will push things costing around $472 today into the $500+ category.
PC today sold at 1500€ will be sold at 500€ in 2028, so... yeah, I don't know what people is thinking.
One could say "you're missing the whole picture, Alessando: in 2028 people would want to buy shiny new 2028 PCs capable of 2028-tripleA-gaming"
But this is also not the whole picture: if a brand new in 2028 that cost 501€ (500+1) doesn't, at very least, match a 1500€ from the 2025 PC... it simply mean that only rich idiot will buy brand new PC in 2028 (aka: OEM won't simply sell new stuff)
Snapdragon platform is already tailing PC gaming... if OEM won't sell new X86 PC, Snapdragon (and like) are coming to get that hole in the PC market.
(but my true hopes are in RiscV: ARM holding can easily dragged in the hardware AI hell as well as AMD and Intel were)
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