WORLDTECHThe three-pronged future of custom PC building — from repurposing forgotten parts to ultra-premium works of gaming art
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What happened
The anniversary hardware, which debuted earlier this year at Computex, ignores affordability concerns entirely. This is probably the worst time ever for PC building.
It even comes with 16GB of shared GDDR6, sidestepping the current RAM pricing issue altogether. Now, this is more of a project than a PC.
Asus instead opted to celebrate two decades of its Republic of Gamers sub-brand by taking several of its already expensive parts and peripherals, adding a few (mostly aesthetic) features and some gold accents, and charging even more for them. The finished PC, with about $2,000 worth of peripherals, a $3,300 motherboard and cooler combo , and a $6,000 RTX 5090 , costs roughly $15,000 – and that’s with a modest 2TB SSD and 32GB of RAM.
Sources & evidence
- Tom's Hardware Reporting source
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