In many ways the prices have slowly dropped over the last decade, however in certain areas prices have actually doubled or more. That would be the area of video cards were at the start of the decade gaming video cards didn't cost a whole lot, then the GeForce vs ATI thing started and video card prices skyrocketed to 500-700$ for a top line video card. Now we have been convinced that we need 2 or 3 of the 500-700$ cards and that they should be replaced every 2 years.
The biggest investement now in a new computer pretty much is the video cards.
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