{"id":27396,"date":"2017-02-17T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=27396"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:41:46","slug":"pc-prices-rising-component-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/pc-prices-rising-component-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"PC prices are rising, due to component shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pc-battle1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27408\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pc-battle1-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"pc-battle1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pc-battle1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pc-battle1-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pc-battle1-1-768x385.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are in the market for a new <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/categories\/desktops-5\/\">desktop<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/categories\/notebooks-83\/\">laptop<\/a>\u00a0PC, it&#8217;s probably worth buying it sooner rather than later. Detailed by Lenovo COO\u00a0Gianfranco Lanci, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/3171263\/computers\/pc-prices-will-continue-to-go-up-due-to-shortage-of-components.html\">current shortage<\/a> of RAM,\u00a0batteries and SSDs; components used in building personal computers. This shortage is driving costs up each month.<\/p>\n<p>At it relates to\u00a0companies that sell custom PC\u00a0builds, consumers may\u00a0start to see more\u00a0upgrades 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0Analyst firms are also expecting the price of SSD to rise for during Q1 2017, but not as sharply as RAM prices.<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0GeForce 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Realted:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/categories\/computers-104\/\">Check Ben&#8217;s for Deals on Computers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in the market for a new desktop or laptop\u00a0PC, it&#8217;s probably worth buying it sooner rather than later. Detailed by Lenovo COO\u00a0Gianfranco Lanci, there&#8217;s a current shortage of RAM,\u00a0batteries and SSDs; components used in building personal computers. This shortage is driving costs up each month. At it relates to\u00a0companies that sell custom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1121,451,1416,251,1725],"class_list":["post-27396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-computers","tag-laptops","tag-pc","tag-ram","tag-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27396"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27412,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396\/revisions\/27412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}