If you are in the market for a new desktop or laptop PC, it’s probably worth buying it sooner rather than later. Detailed by Lenovo COO Gianfranco Lanci, there’s a current shortage of RAM, batteries and SSDs; components used in building personal computers. This shortage is driving costs up each month.

At it relates to companies that sell custom PC builds, consumers may start to see more upgrades being packaged together to hide the cost of more expensive components. If you want to upgrade the hard drive to a SSD, you may see that packaged with a i7 processor upgrade, a more powerful video card or additional RAM.

RAM prices shot up by 30 percent during the last quarter of 2016 and may climb an additional 40 percent during the first quarter of 2017 due to lack of supply. Analyst firms are also expecting the price of SSD to rise for during Q1 2017, but not as sharply as RAM prices.

Interestingly, Intel is selling more i7 chips due to increased in PC gaming as well as the growing adoption of VR headsets. Custom builds that can handle VR output require relatively high specs. For instance, the HTC Vive requires a minimum of a GeForce GTX 970 video card and an Intel Core i5 4590 CPU. The Oculus Rift ups that even more with a requirement of 8GB of RAM.

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PC prices are rising, due to component shortages

If you are an avid Bitcoin user, two new major retailers have just started accepting the online, digital cryptocurrency this month. The first was Newegg at the start of July and the second was Dell as of today. Dell’s announcement first appeared on Michael Dell’s Twitter feed. The company is partnering with Coinbase to process the digital transactions and convert the online currency into U.S. dollars.

Dell is now the world’s largest ecommerce business to accept #bitcoin https://t.co/xC41rKTYXi https://t.co/0YqPK7MfVG

— Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) July 18, 2014

While the majority of retailers still don’t accept Bitcoin, that doesn’t mean you can’t shop at those retailers with Bitcoin. A company called eGifter.com is offering the ability to convert your Bitcoin into a gift card for more than 200 major online retailer such as Amazon, CVS, The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Old Navy, REI, Sears and Toys R Us. At the moment, there’s a slight advantage to this process as you can get an additional 3 percent off your order with each purchase.

If you are interested in learning about the exchange rate for Bitcoin to U.S. dollars, Google just added Bitcoin to the currency conversion database this week. For instance, if you search for a phrase like ‘1 BTC to USD,’ you will see the value of a single Bitcoin in U.S. dollars. That will change in real-time as the currency value moves up and down throughout the day.

Dell, Newegg buddy up to Bitcoin, now accepting the digital currency