Traders in Dhaka’s computer markets say the same thing this week: the buyers coming through the door are students, and they are asking for laptops. Desktop component prices have not moved, so nothing is pushing them away from building a machine — they simply want something that goes to campus, to the tutoring job and back to the hostel. A stable market with good sales across other products is the summary; the interesting part is the price list.
Processors
Intel: Core i9 14th generation (6.0 GHz) Tk 72,000; Core i9 13th gen (5.8 GHz) Tk 67,500; Core Ultra 7 245KF Tk 50,000; Core i7 14th gen Tk 48,500; Core i7 13th gen Tk 43,000; Core Ultra 5 245KF Tk 37,500; Core i5 14th gen Tk 38,000; Core i5 13th gen Tk 24,800; Core i3 13th gen Tk 13,500.
AMD: Ryzen 9 7900X Tk 42,000; Ryzen 7 7700X Tk 30,500; Ryzen 7 5700G Tk 17,000; Ryzen 5 5600G Tk 13,200.
Motherboards and memory
Asus EX-H610M-V3 (DDR4) Tk 9,800; Asus TUF Gaming B550M-Plus Tk 19,300; Gigabyte B760M Gaming X (DDR4) Tk 20,200; Gigabyte B450M DS3H V2 Tk 11,000; MSI Pro H610M-G Tk 11,000; MSI B450M-A Pro Max Tk 8,000.
RAM: Transcend JetRAM 8 GB DDR4 Tk 2,400; Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB 3200 MHz Tk 4,390; Gigabyte Aorus 16 GB DDR5 6000 MHz Tk 7,200; TwinMOS 8 GB DDR4 2400 Tk 2,300.
Storage
Samsung 980 NVMe 500 GB Tk 6,750; Samsung 980 Pro 500 GB (PCIe Gen4) Tk 9,000; Samsung 870 EVO 500 GB SATA Tk 6,800; HP S700 250 GB Tk 3,050; HP EX900 500 GB Tk 4,300. Hard disks: Seagate Barracuda 2 TB Tk 9,200; Toshiba P300 2 TB Tk 7,600; Toshiba X300 4 TB Tk 17,000. Portable: WD My Passport 1 TB Tk 7,000, 2 TB Tk 8,700, 4 TB Tk 13,000; Transcend StoreJet 25H3 2 TB Tk 9,700.
Graphics cards and monitors
The new MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16 GB Ventus 3X sits at Tk 170,000; RTX 4060 Ti Eagle OC 8 GB Tk 63,200; RTX 4060 Ventus OC 16 GB Tk 65,000; RTX 3060 Ventus OC 12 GB Tk 38,500; GTX 1650 D6 4 GB Tk 18,500; Asus Dual Radeon RX 7600 V2 Tk 42,500; Gigabyte GT 1030 2 GB Tk 10,000.
Monitors: HP 24-inch M24f Tk 17,800; HP 21.5-inch M22f Tk 13,500; Dell 22-inch SE2222H Tk 13,000; MSI Pro MP223 21.5-inch Tk 10,200; MSI G24C4 E2 23.6-inch curved Tk 23,500; LG 24GN60R-B 24-inch Tk 26,000; Samsung 22-inch LS22C310 Tk 13,000.
Peripherals
Logitech K120 Tk 770; Logitech K380 Bluetooth Tk 3,300; Royal Kludge RK71 Tk 3,900, RK84 Tk 4,900; Havit KB271 Tk 500. Printers: HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 2775 Tk 8,500; Epson EcoTank L3210 Tk 18,000, L3250 Tk 21,500; Canon Pixma G1010 Tk 14,500.
The laptop-or-desktop question
For a student who needs portability, a laptop is the right answer and the market agrees. For anyone who works at one desk, the numbers above still favour building: a Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB of RAM, a 500 GB NVMe drive and a 22-inch monitor come to roughly Tk 45,000 with a case and power supply — the price of a mid-range laptop with half the screen and no upgrade path.
