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Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes
huquad@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Im skeptical of this. I think the opposite might happen, at least in terms of supply. Ramm/GPU price hikes are all supply driven. If no one is building/buying a computer due to increased ramm/GPU prices, then I bet a lot of PSUs/coolers/cases and other consumer gear that isn’t used in the datacenter will be overstocked.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I have to agree. I mean come on, cpu coolers? There’s nothing proprietary about them, nothing particularly high tech or difficult to produce, it’s a heat sink and a fan… Fancy ones may have a coolant loop, but still… I just can’t see any reason that prices would go up noticeably for such easy to manufacturer, commodity parts.
I’m just saying, it seems a little early to start screaming “the sky is falling”.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 16 hours ago
They still have to be made from something, and it just so happens that ‘something’ overlaps with stuff datacenters currently vacuum out of the market
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Copper? Is there really a copper shortage?
I mean, the supply is pretty large for that. You’d think that electrical rollout in developing nations would have a higher impact than all the ram in the world.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Apparently yeah
Damage@feddit.it 15 hours ago
I think that reasoning works for PSUs as power conversion may use the same components (do datacenters even run on AC power tho? Or do they run DC and then step down?), but most consumer CPU coolers are milled alluminium plus a fan, the only overlap I can imagine are the heatpipes.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Companies (e.g. HP, Dell, Lenovo) will still buy PCs. The individual like you and me will be a drop in a bucket as big as the whole ocean.
huquad@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
True, but the coolers/psus/cases in OEMs are dog shit by comparison. Very different markets.
axexrx@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
When theres increased demand, companies raise prices because of scarcity. When theres decreased demand, they raise prices so they can make their profits over fewer units sold.
huquad@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
This works in a vacuum, but falls apart once you have competition to drive prices down. That said, the world is falling into cartels that price fix anyway.