[faefox]

It may seem cute but economies only do this when they are very stressed.

[system2]

It didn't stop people from buying the most expensive cards and CPUs when the world was ending in COVID-19 days. Average Joe doesn't know anything about CPUs. This is a gaming community that squeezes the most out of each buck. I wouldn't use CPU market for economic prediction.

[freehorse]

Average Joe does not know anything about CPUs, but when they are out to buy a new computer they can see the prices of a new DDR5 computer vs an older or used DDR4 one.

[re-thc]

> when they are very stressed

DDR5 has gone up so much it just isn't worth it. 4-5x the price. Is this just "stress"?

[mrbungie]

It is stress in the consumer economy, everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI.