In Denmark, at around 2016, when I built my first PC, motherboards were dirt cheap, but RAM was nearly the same price as my CPU (an i5 at around 2000 Danish kroner).
Today CPU prices are largely the same. But now motherboards are nearly the same price as the CPU, and I can buy 32GB of DDR 4 RAM for half the price of buying a full price game from Steam (300 Danish kroner for RAM).
Tattorack t1_j8diblr wrote
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Here's the fun thing:
In Denmark, at around 2016, when I built my first PC, motherboards were dirt cheap, but RAM was nearly the same price as my CPU (an i5 at around 2000 Danish kroner).
Today CPU prices are largely the same. But now motherboards are nearly the same price as the CPU, and I can buy 32GB of DDR 4 RAM for half the price of buying a full price game from Steam (300 Danish kroner for RAM).