GPUs are still overpriced too
Because the fuckers realised they can just keep them priced like this and people will still buy them
The relationship between supply, demand, and price has been fundamentally damaged.
It always has been. It’s just worse now. The haves have always had all the power in a “free market” system.
Why doesn’t a 4090 cost $1,000,000?
It doesn’t need to. It’s already unaffordable.
Doesn’t “need” to? What does that even mean?
If the manufacturer had all the power in the relationship, the product would cost even more.
🌍 🧑🚀🔫
Always has been.
You don’t get to be worth 5 trillion dollars by giving out discounts…
Yeah sadly. Then sell out to big corpos doing AI and neglect the original audience for your products.
Quite the contrary! They effectively sell their cards at a ~20% discount to a bunch of AI companies by “investing” in the companies for a promise to use that money to buy their cards.
It’s as dumb as it sounds and textbook unsustainable economic bubble behavior, but NVidia don’t care because more sales = more stonks = more money to “invest” = more sales = more stonks = more yachts for Jensen. So what if it makes 1929 look like a walk in the park, it’s not their problem.
Crypto bros and AI bros are the same people. They moved from one scam to another
Crypto is still close to all time highs
Need the crying bro meme
“C’mon bro, it’s not a scam unless it requires an NVIDIA chipset. Please bro, use NVIDIA bro”
Hopefully motivates game developers to optimize their softwHAHAHA oh gods I can’t say that with a straight face
RT has been a plague. The cope going from “4K native 144Hz only bro, potato consoles just can’t keep up” to “just use DLSS to bullshit as many pixels as possible” has been unreal.
If you’re on Windows, the new O&O ShutUp gives you the option to delete Copilot.
And there was the HDD shortage, the CPU shortage, and I’m sure we’ll see some variant repeat of any of them again.
Water and electricity. Those are gonna be the fun ones.
I’m so thankful that I didn’t buy into the 3000 series hype and just bought a 2060 Super the moment one became available at MSRP after the 3000s launched. Everyone said it was a waste paying that price for less performance, but I had a card and they still didn’t 4 months later.
I’d say that the way around the shortages is to just not go for the latest and greatest new hardware, but that’s not really helpful for GPUs anymore anyway. Even the desirable last gen cards are still going for scalper prices.
The 3090 is currently the best price/performance for AI.
If I build a rig with a 3090 running Debian will stuff like ollama be able to take advantage of it? Thinking up building a new system for my containers and getting into that.
Yes! I do this with a 3060 and Debian.
Yes. I’m not using Debian, but I am doing basically that.
Is there a place I can sell my old ram sticks that are perfectly fine? I just upgraded.
Ebay?
I’m in the same boat and considering this.
Someone is too young or forgot the 2016 DRAM price fixing by Samsung, Hynix, and Micron, causing prices to skyrocket. Prices doubled or even tripled until 2018.
I paid a new 4TB seagate 99€ in 2022, now it’s 139€.
Prices used to go down 😐
And tariffs!
God, the “PC master race” hype is just pathetic now. Spend your life savings so you can play a 10 year old console port that runs like dogshit.
At least you have Steam sales so you can buy games that you won’t play.
Was looking at upgrading to am5 but wow ddr5 is so expensive and thanks to ai I doubt that’s going to change any time soon.
Since, I mostly play relatively older games, I will stick to my ROG Ally X with Bazzite OS.
