I’ve spent the better part of a decade preaching the gospel of “build, don’t buy,” but looking at the current state of component pricing, I’m forcing myself to be a realist. When you crunch the numbers on the latest 50 series cards and Ryzen 9000 chips, the math right now overwhelmingly favors the system integrators who locked in bulk pricing months ago. We are in a weird market cycle where the sum of the parts is significantly more expensive than the whole....
