How artificial scarcity, corporate strategy, and post-pandemic economics are keeping your dream build out of reach.
Intro
Remember when you could build a killer gaming PC without taking out a second mortgage? Yeah, us too.
For a brief moment, it looked like sanity was returning. Crypto mining slowed down, Ethereum moved to proof-of-stake, and scalper bots got less aggressive. Yet here we are — mid-range GPUs are still $500+, and “flagship” cards are brushing $2,000.
So what
