 What's up internet? Raise your hand kung nakitaman atong conversation online. May isa, may bibilin ng computer part or computer rig, kung ko post online asking for advice. Ok ba tong specs na to? For that price. Tapos, may isang na magkakoment, may rame magkakoment. O, de, sobrang mura niyan. Bilin mo na bargain. Pero may makasabi, de, overpriced yan, overpriced yung GPU, overpriced yung CPU, magtatalo yung mga nakakoment kung well priced ba yung item or yung build na yun. And really, how do you know what's a good price for computer parts? This episode will answer that but based on data, not on opinion. Alam ang tayos hardware sugar, we like dealing in hard facts to answer questions. So we've been doing this since 2022, maramin na tayong data, but just to give an example of how we use that data, we're gonna use a soft drink. Konwari, gusto mo bilin tong soft drink na to. Pero, medyo kinakaban ka. Kung pumunta ka sa supermarket, kung overpriced ba yung supermarket na yun for this soft drink. To get the market value, the fair value of this soft drink, it would be good to do a survey of the big supermarkets. Magka na ba binebenta nung pure gold? Nung shop-wise, nung landmark. And let's say kung nasa mahal kang lugar, crustans. Do a survey of the price of this exact soft drink and then get the average price. Yung groceries na over the average price, medyo mahal yun. You could say, with data, that's overpriced. Yung below the average price, okay yun, sulit yun. That's exactly what we do here at PriceWatch, except replace soft drinks with CPUs or GPUs. We get the prices from the four largest PC retailers in the country. Di ka saming hardware sugar dito, kasi tupechugin lang kaming ones to her shop. The big boys are the ones that have good data. Kasi sila yung mga volume discounts. We then average those prices and publish all of that information online available 24-7. Whenever you want to buy a part, you don't need to wait for a one month PriceWatch episode. Yung Google Sheet with all of the prices stretching back to 2022, na sa video description below, nakapindin sa comments. So at least ngayon may ballpark figure na tayo. Kung mahal ba yung CPU, kung mahal ba yung GPU and you can extend that since we can't cover all possible hardware but we try to cover the major ones so that you can get a general sense oh, nakamurao sa CPU at least makagastos ako ngayon sa GPU. Or this build seems a little expensive but based on the GPU na nandon, okay naman yung total value niya. So kamusta ba yung prices in January 2024? We'll find out after this short break. Windows 10 and Windows 11, activation pose. Legit, safe, at pinakamura, madadilo mo order. Hanapin ang Windows version na gusto mo. Piliin ang preferred playpen friend mo. Wala pang 5 minutes nagsizigit ka na para sa Windows mo. Maraming na kaming na tulungan. Daddy, 7 depart ako. But now, I'm from the love of my life. Daddy, ing-less and walang purchase ang life ko. But now, I'm a world-class Zuba instructor. So web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel and ngayon, ganun pa rin ako pero activated na yung Windows ko. Kaya ako naghanap ka ng legit, mura, at original software. Check out cdkoffer.com. Check out cdkoffer.com. Check out cdkoffer.com. And then that's 60, 500 XT, 600, 700 XT. But all of the data is still here. Again, because the beauty of this is that you can compare. So at least you can have historical data to fall back on to, to compare. Like when 4080 versus 3080, makana ba yung 3080 nung this time in its product cycle parang ganun? So data is precious. We don't throw away the data even when we stop tracking particular items. And we replace the AMD CPU with an Intel CPU. We're starting to track the 4700K this month. So a nice blend. We have 12 gen, 13th gen and 14th gen for Intel. Again, the point of price watch is not to give a comprehensive, like these are all of the items on the market and we track all of them. It's impossible to do that. But we're trying to track items na entry level, on mid-range and high-end so that you can get a sense on the overall market. Makatulong pa rin even though you're not getting the exact same parts that we track. So it is actually a bad time to buy. A lot of the prices have gone up. Hindi naman ganun ka laki yung taas but in general across the board maraming umakiat. So starting with the 1650, slight price increase of around 100 pesos, 3050, actually a big price increase over 1000 pesos, price difference. Interesting to note that I think they're about to retire the 3050. So it's kind of weird na big lang umakiat yung price niya. 3060 price remains the same. 4060 bumped up slightly around 300-400 pesos so the median price is na around 19,000. Although last month December was also around 19,000 I mean give or take. 4070 price increase also. 4080 went down but just slightly and only because one of the stores that we track may discount yung isang 4080 model nila. I won't give it away. We'll look at it in the individual price, shop prices later. But if you can find that store they do have a good price on the 4080 and that's what brought the overall price down. But yung niya hindi siya market trend. Yung isang shop lang yung may discount. The 4090 is amazing. So price increase starting November, price increase December and then price increase nung January. So 3 months straight na umakiat yung 4090 price. And like the December one was a big jump over the November price. And we talked about it last month kasi I think wala ng stock. There are certain models of the 4090 na mas mura of course compared to some of the others pero na buksa na nung stock people haven't suppliers have not been getting re-stocked. So yung natirang stock yung super mahal na 4090s. Hindi nang amura yung 4090 tapos yung natirapa yung very expensive models. I think that's what's leading to this. Bakit nung pakiat yung price nung 4090? 6600 went back to a rational price. November kasi 12,000 siya. Back to January, November din siya. Itong spike kasi nung December there was just one store that had a super expensive 6600. We talked about it last episode. Yung yan, di kumintindihan but ang mahal nung 6600 nila. But prices have gone back to normal for the 6600. About a 1000 pesos increase for the 7700 XT. It was good value at around this point. But it is still cheaper than what it was last November. For the XTX, 7900 XTX the fastest currently the fastest card of AMD. A slight price increase or about 1000 pesos or so, slightly less yung price increase nya. And again, the 7900 XTX is comparable to the 4080 AMD. Does not have a comparable card to the king of the hill Nvidia's 4090. For CPUs, the 7950X went down by around 1000 pesos. Not bad. 7800X 3D price remains the same. Still one of the best CPUs out there especially for gaming. The 7600X actually went up, surprisingly just slightly. 5600X also went up and the 5600G also went up. So there's a lot of staying power left in the 5000 series. And I'm a little surprised to see the prices going up slightly. Perhaps shops trying to take advantage na mabenta pa rin yung 5000 series. 3900K, not the fastest anymore of Intel but very close pa rin to the 4900K went up slightly. And we have the debut of the 1400K at around 26400 pesos. The 1300K is slightly more expensive but just very slightly. Again, there's not much of a difference between the 13th and 14th gen just very slight differences both in terms of performance and in price. Very well, intellect knowledge naman na parang updated series lang siya. We weren't expecting a lot of performance gains. We're gonna have to wait for the 15th gen for that. And the 12500 actually had a price increase as well. So it's no longer below 14K. It's slightly above 14K. A bit surprising but the 12th gen still has some staying power apparently as the price went up slightly. So we'll go to the per shop deep dive. Again, we don't disclose the shop names because only hardware sugar gets remarketing on this channel. So I've given then anonymous names from science fiction pero consistent naman to when we say wedge last December ito rin yung same shop na wedge nga yung January. So the names are consistent so that you can compare like per shop have their prices gone up or down. And as we saw in the breakdown there is a general price increase. So we can see that mostly with wedge. The GPU prices have gone up. 1650 before from wedge last month so was 8,670. And now the cheapest 1650 that you can get na dual fan is already 9,000 plus. So that's a significant price difference. 3060 no change. 4060, 4070 all went up with their 4060 roughly the same price of the 3060. I've talked often that that shouldn't be the case. The 4060 should be cheaper than the 3060. At least for wedge though they have all of the AMD GPUs that were tracking unlike Roy and unlike Joker that have none of the models that were tracking. Although in keeping with the price increase of the Nvidia cards wedges AMD cards also had price increases. Itong price decrease ng 6600 is deceptive because they were the ones with the super bonkers 6600 price of 22,000 last month. So sobrang layo noon from reality. It's good to see they went back down to a more rational price this month. For Roy, price decrease actually for the 1650. Big price difference actually for the wedge 1650 compared to the other prices. Like you can get a 1650 from wash for less than 8,000. Yung kay wedge 9,000 plus almost 10,000. If price is the ultimate consideration it really pays to compare prices between different shops. Price increase for the 3050 of Roy 3060 remains the same. This is a rational price. The 4060 is cheaper than the 3060. I mean at this price yung ya the 3060 should be around 18,000 or so. And Roy doesn't have a 4080 or a 4090. Joker 1650 went down 3050 went down 3060 said the same. 4060 and 4070 went up sort of in line with what we saw from wedge. Wash's price for GPUs remain the same. Mostly they are the ones with good price for the 4080. And this is the same for their CPUs. Later on, we'll see na di rin umaki at yung mga prices nung CPUs ni wash. Although the 4090 went up significantly from what it was last month. That's because the model has changed. As I mentioned in the summary, the higher-end cards tumatas rin yung mga prices nila because yung na titerang models yung mga sobrang mahal. Wash does have all of the AMD cards that we're tracking. At pretty good prices, just a slight price increase for the 7700XT. Going to CPUs, no price changes for wedge. And some of the shops have price changes but not too much. So the CPU market usually more stable than the GPU market. 5600G price decrease from Roy. Very slightly like 20 pesos. Interesting price increase from Wash for the 5600G. Quite significant actually around 600 pesos or so compared to the 6850 that it was selling for from him last month. So if you're wondering whether you should spend your 13th month pay on GPUs or CPUs, CPUs are pretty stable. GPUs, the prices are going up. You might want to wait actually because NVIDIA just had or at the time of this recording has not had yet but is scheduled to have a high profile announcement regarding their super series and generally mas mahal mas mahal yung super series but generally their performance you want to pay for the performance. I can only remember one or two supers na medyo not worth it yung price difference but in general magaday yung super line in terms of upgrade in performance. And so if a bunch of higher and GPUs come online that might bring down the prices of some of the other GPUs. So if you could wait for GPUs I would wait for CPUs seems pretty much locked in like there are no price differences too much. So there is some stability to that market if you're thinking of pulling the trigger for a CPU I would go ahead and buy it. So that is price watch for January. As always you can take a look at this list anytime we have data stretching all the way back to 2022 when we first started doing price watch. 2022 October so we've been doing this for more than a year. And again the power of this spreadsheet is that you get historical data. Yes bumaba yung prices ngayon for this part but compared to how it was six months ago mababa pa ba yun or actually mahal siya compared to how it was in the past. So regardless of what shop you buy feel free to use the data to compare and to get a general sense kung mahal ba tong part na to kung mura kung goodbye ba siya. Because again you can see so many opinions online overpriced mura et cetera but sandba ng gagaling opinion na yun? And then when we started doing the series I really wanted it to be founded on data on what you can actually see in the Philippine market. So here we go. Hope it helps. Thanks for watching. Paming saan may nagtatanong kumikilala ba kaming computer shop na trusted yung hindi kalolo ko hin. Actually meron kaming full service PC store ang hardware sugar. Nagbabenta kami nung PC components. Nagbabenta rin kami nung fully assembled rigs. We clean computers. Masama na rin yung excellent cable management namin and CPU cooler repasting sa cleaning. We also clean and repaste GPUs. Nasamakati yung physical store namin and you can also buy from our site www.hwsugar.ph na 100% palaging up-to-date yung inventory dun. 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