The lowest price on an RTX 4090 card at retail has increased by 10% compared to early October. There are multiple potential factors at play, and here's the summary of what's happening.
Dell uses Intel's mid-range Arc A770 as default graphics card for high-end gaming desktop.
Polaris and Vega were the last AMD GPUs to use the old GCN architecture, which was replaced by RDNA in 2019, and now AMD is reducing driver support.
A looming shortage of materials needed to make NAND chips may be the final nail in the coffin for cheap storage and memory.
The new ASRock motherboard future readies itself with plenty of secondary storage slots for your M.2 NVMe drives and a plethora of other features.
Apple executive Bob Borchers asserts that Apple uses memory more efficiently, so "8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems."
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/apple-claims-m3-macbook-pros-8gb-equals-16gb-on-pcs
XPG’s Levante X 360 AIO cooler does well in several metrics, but not price.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cooling/xpg-levante-x-360
AMD's Ryzen 8000G APUs for desktops to feature both high-performance Phoenix and cheaper Phoenix 2 silicon.
On Twitter, Rockstar announced that "the next GTA game" and we can expect a trailer in December
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/grand-theft-auto-vi-announced-first-trailer-in-december
Thanks to some creative voltage adjustments and extreme cooling, I was able to achieve record high clock speeds on the Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K and Core i5-14600K CPUs.