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This is such a breath of fresh air for PC gamers who have been waiting to build a budget gaming machine, ever since the crypto-mining frenzy messed up the GPU market. Most GPUs are selling at a 30%ish price hike right now!

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PC building is a nightmare right now between RAM and GPU prices. It's clear that they are not a valued demographic to parts manufacturers.

Anyway, I would recommend a Ryzen 3 + GTX 1050 at a minimum for a gaming computer. The performance here on GTA V, a several years old game, is pretty poor.

Actually, they are. Arguably it's the cryptominer fools that the part manufacturers want nothing to do with, because chances are you ramp up manufacturing now (so 3-6 months until you actually see higher supply) and by then they are on to the next coin fad.

Most GPUs that are 2GB or less have been almost unaffected by the price hikes (geforce 1030/1050/1050Ti) because you need more than 2GB of RAM to mine Ethereum these days. It's the 4GB and higher RAM cards that have crazy prices.

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