Tagged: price-watch
A 1440p gaming PC in Taiwan, August 2026: the NT$69,597 build, and why the same parts now cost 55.8% more than a year ago
Two snapshots of the same Taiwanese retailer, taken one year apart: eight identical SKUs went from NT$45,578 to NT$70,990. Here is a build list you can copy today, and an audit of exactly which three parts swallowed the extra NT$25,412.
RTX 5070 at +57%, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB at +70%: in Taiwan, VRAM now sets the price
A single Taiwanese retail snapshot from 18 August 2026 puts the RTX 5070 at NT$28,888. Normalise every tier against official MSRP and the premiums line up by memory capacity, not by chip tier.
2026 NAND supply deficit estimated at 4–5%: buy a 2TB SSD now, or choose QLC?
The second-quarter NAND contract-price forecast surged, but upstream allocation does not mean empty shelves. Taiwan prices show the trade-offs among QLC, used U.2, HDDs and PCIe 5.0.
A 32GB DDR5 kit rose 14% in five days in Taiwan: why "wait for the crash" fails this cycle
Five days ago we logged a 32GB DDR5 kit at NT$12,800. The same SKU at the same retailer now lists at NT$14,599. The real story is not the increase — it is that both engines that historically pulled memory prices back down have stalled.
RTX 5090 hits NT$165,990 in Taiwan: how the AI infrastructure boom reaches a gaming GPU
I paid NT$119,000 for an RTX 5090 last November. A Taiwan retail listing now asks NT$165,990. GDDR7 allocation, hyperscaler spending and replacement-cost risk explain the gap.