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£4,000+ for a GPU - Madness !!

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I was just having a look at what the prices we're doing for 5090s and I could hardly believe it when I saw that they're all round about four grand or four grand plus which is just crazy I knew prices were bad but I had no idea they were just this bad for GPUs.

The cheapest one with availability is sitting at just under £3,750 and the most expensive available is £5,400

in all my years of building PCs I don't think I've ever seen a time where the prices for the same tech has basically doubled over the last 12 months

I paid £1,879 for my Gamerock in May 2025 and I was wincing at that....
 
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Yep. Paying £2400 for a discretionary video game and LLM toy early last year was maybe not my best decision on the whole, but it's looking better and better every month. I haven't even used the thing for a month.

This has really gotten out of control. The bubble needs to pop.

And yes, this price explosion for components is unprecedented in the last 30+ years I've been working with PCs.
 
They're no longer being sold to the gamers.

Professional Content creators and AI users are the market. Most of them will be billed as a business expense (which will get them the 20% VAT refund for starters) and then a write down on their tax bill for depreciation of assets used for their buisness.

For the now intended purchaser of 5090s the cost isn't anywhere near as bad as the headline price suggests.
 
Pooh said:
I was just having a look at what the prices we're doing for 5090s and I could hardly believe it when I saw that they're all round about four grand or four grand plus which is just crazy I knew prices were bad but I had no idea they were just this bad for GPUs.

The cheapest one with availability is sitting at just under £3,750 and the most expensive available is £5,400

in all my years of building PCs I don't think I've ever seen a time where the prices for the same tech has basically doubled over the last 12 months

I paid £1,879 for my Gamerock in May 2025 and I was wincing at that....
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I imagine if all 6090 was released now it would be atleast these prices. I've a feeling you would be on of those that would still buy it hahaha.
 
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