Russian media, referring to retailers, reported that the country has problems with the supply of processors and hard drives. It is also reported that many businesses have closed, while others have greatly increased the prices of their products.
To be more precise, processors have doubled in price from February this year, video cards 1 by 80%, motherboards and SSDs by 40%, RAM and cooling systems by 30%, and power supplies and enclosures by 20-25%.
Sellers explain this with problems with logistics, lack of imports, and so on. But experts are sure that parallel imports will simplify the situation.
There is definitely a shortage of computers, and it’s quite noticeable. It is impossible to say that they are available.
As for specific models, assembling a system based on AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3200GE with integrated graphics will cost 45-55 thousand rubles. For the best quality of games, you will need a GeForce GTX 1650 or Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card (a PC with such a card will cost 70-80 thousand rubles), and a system with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 “pulls” 100 thousand . ❌ There were two cancellations in eSports at once
Source: VG Times