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>retard youtubers keep shilling
This will continue to happen to just about anything and everything.
>retro videogaming used to be cheap in the early 2000's except for the actual rare stuff
>10 cents for SMB/DH, most popular games with many copies are under $5
>youtubers arrive and need some content for their channel
>"Dude, retro videogaming is SUPER cheap and the games are still fun!"
>retro console videogaming begins an upwards price trend that still hasn't broken
>old computers are mostly cheap except actual rare stuff
>everything from Pentiums to used SFF workstations, to used full-size towers from businesses are dirt cheap
>"Dude, DID YOU KNOW you can get an old computer for retro DOS gaming for SUPER cheap?!"
>"DID YOU KNOW you can get used business computers for emulating for SUPER cheap?!"
>old hardware for DOS gaming and used SFF/towers on ebay start going for over $100 before shipping
>people turn to used industrial control boards with 386/486 CPUs for DOS gaming
>"DID YOU KNOW you can get a SUPER cheap DOS gaming PC with an industrial motherboard?!"
>win9x-winXP hardware is still cheap since too new for DOS and too old for modern emulation
>even good non-Voodoo video hardware is cheap, and the non-ISA SoundBlasters since they aren't popular for DOS
>"Hey you guys, youtubefag here. DID YOU KNOW you can still get a cool Win98 gaming PC for SUPER cheap?!"
>best Win98 hardware starts raising in price
Calling it now, if you want a good WinXP machine, now's the time to get a Core2Duo 3+GHz Wolfdale 6MB cache(the E8xxx series) CPU before they are over $30 and matching socket 775 mobo, and a GeForce RTX 780 before they get over $60. Last chance to build a powerhouse WinXP machine for less than $200.

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