[Hardware] Building your own computer no longer saves money, at least that's what Intel says

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I am sure that many users who read this text throughout their lives have assembled several computers, either for their own use or for friends and family. Well, Raja Koduri, Head of Intel's graphics card department and a heavyweight in the company, says that building a computer is becoming more complicated... and expensive.

Assembling a computer in parts has always been a way to save money and get a system that meets our needs. Carrying out the process of assembling a computer by parts requires a lot of time, patience and looking in many stores. But, there are more and more users who directly want a mounted computer.

Raja Koduri has had trouble setting up his own PC
Any computer lover knows that building a computer has two advantages: the fun of doing it and saving money. But, at present it seems that these two incentives no longer exist or are in the process of extinction. Who has realized this is Raja Koduri himself, one of the top leaders of Intel.

He has commented Koduri that he no longer assembles as many computers as he did 5-10 years ago. As he has said, he has recently assembled two computers with hardware from Intel and from a competitor, come on, from AMD or NVIDIA, there is no more.

You may not know Koduri, but he is the father of AMD RDNA architecture and the developer of Intel's current graphics cards. Come on, he is not just anyone, so to speak, he is a person with great knowledge.

 

 

This is why he himself is surprised that he had to watch videos on YouTube to assemble these computers.

This has meant that Koduri has realized that there is a problem within the PC industry. He has highlighted that he is thinking about how to make everything more modular, to go back to those times where building a PC was fun and you saved money. And he has also ruled that the PC must be restarted.

It was about time someone noticed
Most likely, the end of custom computers is killed by the industry itself. The hardware is increasing the price significantly and that is a really important problem. But this effect is making cloned computers cheaper than assembling a computer in pieces. Clone computer assemblers buy large amounts of hardware and this allows them to offer cheaper equipment than if we assemble it piece by piece.

I must say that about a year ago, I gave up having a tower-type PC, I switched to laptops. I've always been averse to gaming laptops, but now I find it impossible to go back. It was a lot due to circumstances, I needed a new computer and for different reasons (that are irrelevant) acquiring a tower-type PC was not viable. Surely, if it hadn't been for that, I would have a tower and continue with a mistaken belief.

But it is not only my case, many users are going to laptops. Now, it remains to be seen what are the changes that Koduri proposes, if they translate into something real. We assume so, because he and specifically, Intel, need to change the trend.

 

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