In the US, gaming hardware prices rising as Trump’s tariffs come into effect - Sensationalist Headlines

thank fucking god i just upgraded

Destroying the economy and driving yourself bankrupt to own the libs.

glad i built my PC when i could though even then it was still expensive for what it was. can't wait to have to pay $200 for 8gb of RAM

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109738/1675c960-93ff-481b-a875-885b060ca72c/image.png https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109738/cf07a470-7d4e-497d-ba2d-8e45566a5c0d/image.png I bought that back in Feb and Mar 2016 Today: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109738/bb4f8c49-6155-4814-a9b9-b0c45872cac7/image.png The last thing computer components need are excuses for increased prices...

Hopefully this will mean manufacturing comes back to usa at fair prices and acceptable working conditions for workers, not the slave camps in china, most like though yhose companies will just pick another third world country to manufacture in.

The only reason we have fair prices is because its made on the backs of slaves. If we want to free ourselves of our dependence on China, then Americans are going to have to accept a significant drop in our quality of life.

Hopefully this doesn't rise prices to much. I am in the market for several of the things listed as becoming more expensive.

codependency is not a bad thing; on the contrary, it's actually a very good thing that can double as a defensive measure as well. as the world economies intertwine more and more, mass conflict is discouraged more and more. not that this will actually remove any sort of dependency we have on chinese manufacturing (who actually import a good bit of US stuff IIRC) the best we can hope for is the automation revolution to automate more processes in the electrical fabrication fields

A suppose an unintentional good outcome of the tariffs is that Taiwan may start taking a larger manufacturing role again. Taiwanese manufacturing is generally held to a higher quality standard, maybe because their quality of life is better. I know if I worked in a wageslave factory in Shenzen I probably wouldn't give a shit about the stuff I was making, either. Good outcome for the wrong reasons, I could get behind chinese boycotts for reason of ethical protest to force Chinese government and business to improve working conditions, but ultimately the tariffs are just for dick-waving reasons, it seems.

Electronics manufacturing is already heavily automated. Pick and place machines, PCB cutters/routers, bed of nails testing machines, reflow/wave soldering machines, etc. Approx 80% of large scale electronics manufacturing is automated, so its less so much poor wages and working conditions (although still a factor) and more so logistics. Alot of semiconductor factories are in Shenzhen and similar places. So instead of shipping parts intl, just ship them down the street.

very much THIS! also, cost of hardware is gonna go though the fucking ROOF with americans assembling them for admittedly still cancerously useless minimum wage. Then comes the added supply shipping and so forth. Hardware prices would more than triple at the very least.

Congrats you sure showed those damn Chinese by fisting your own people! I was hoping that when the new line of Nvid cards came out the price would at least lower on last gens so I could finally upgrade my struggling 970 but between this and the mining bull shit I guess its a fever dream to not be gouged for a GPU.

Welp, guess I'm stuck with my RX 480 for another year. :/

I guess gamers are back to being the most oppressed groups of all. No prosperity for us.

Louis CK said it best: https://youtu.be/0O5h4enjrHw?t=2m28s

They targeted gamers. Gamers.

wouldn't be the first, or only, or last time we shall be targets for quite a few decades I'm afraid

to be honest I think the solution to American dependency on Chinese manufacturing is, uh none whatsoever there just isn't one, China is too big

a lot of manual labor is still required, especially in Chinese fabs; there are a few tour videos on YT iirc demonstrating the conditions

He didn't even have a legit reason nor an alternative once it was done. He just did it to "stick it to the fuckin chinks" cause he's a racist piece of shit.

That's not going to happen with electronics

Thanks Oba- Wait...

This is a very VERY amerocentric viewpoint with little-to-no nuance. I'm sorry bruv, but American style racism isn't the be-all-end-all of why Trump made this retarded push.

My HAF 922 case is going to last me a lifetime so this doesn't effect me. What's affecting me are the buttcoin felons who deserve to share a bunk with Big BBC Bubba.

Exc epot that is exactly why he did it. Enforced bias isn't simply 'racism', but it's still bias.

I was sort of joking in the last thread about memory price fixing, but now I literally will be stuck with my 2500k rig for the foreseeable future.

Well. IT should honestly serve for med-high-end gaming for a few years yet. A proper overclock could probably keep it going into 2020. I'm using a 3770k at 4.6 GHz and playing between 60-80 FPS, only Battlefield seems to max it out. Some of the newer Denuvo games tend to keep it at 50-70% utilization. So for 45+ FPS gaming, i can't see it having huge problems until past 2020. Maybe even 30 FPS gaming for a short while when new consoles come out.

Okay, I was going to upgrade my PC after the graphic card crisis I was hoping costs would go down, but I'll wait till this administration ends. this is insane. I seriously hop