"The rising cost of PC parts is getting so bad that Nvidia is reportedly going to start making RTX 3060s again, so people have something to buy in the future while all the new shiny tech gets consumed by the AI industry. You've likely already noticed that in 2025, it became more expensive to build or upgrade a PC. Thanks to hyperscalers and AI-focused tech companies gobbling up PC parts to build datacenters,"
"Even the prices on prebuilt PCs from companies like HP, Dell, and Asus will increase by 15 to 20 percent, according to PC World. Not great! This will also lead to PC handhelds getting more expensive, and experts expect consoles will undergo price increases too, thanks to growing demand for specific parts. And Nvidia, a company that is making billions"
PC component prices rose sharply in 2025 as hyperscalers and AI-focused companies purchased large volumes of RAM and GPUs for datacenters. Prebuilt PC prices from major vendors are projected to increase 15–20 percent, and PC handhelds and consoles are expected to become more expensive due to part shortages. Rapid DRAM consumption for datacenters has made GDDR7 procurement harder and costlier, complicating production of newer GPUs like the RTX 5060. Nvidia plans to restart RTX 3060 production using cheaper, easier-to-acquire components to provide a more affordable gaming GPU in 2026. The RTX 3060 originally launched in 2021 and remains popular on Steam.
Read at Kotaku
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