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It's possible I will never be able to afford another gaming PC again. Even when the AI bubble pops, we are never returning to normal prices. Prices will come down, but now the price increase is baked in. Just like when COVID hit and we never saw prices for almost anything return to precovid levels.
Honestly, as a silver lining, this is likely to finally make studios pull back from graphics being the end all be all, and instead focus a bit more on art styles that run well on weaker hardware.
The endless pursuit of graphics has had drastically diminishing returns since the PS3, it's about time the industry focused on optimization and doing more with less for once.
It'll let our hardware stay relevant, and it's better for the environment if we make it last as long as possible anyway :)
Down with consumption, and bring on the age of Permacomputing, I say!
Learn to use ebay and enjoy the used discounts, dude. It's such a refresher.
There will always be businesses liquidating inventory, cryptominers dumping their cards, and average joes hoping that they can sell their old PC rather than recycling it. It sucks that most of the stuff will not be new, yeah, but you can still get powerful hardware at an affordable price.
And what about large storage drives?
Yeah those are way too risky unless you're making some mirrors. Best go for used then
cut the doomerism, Chinese chipsets are half the price of american ones, just be patent my friend, the silk road will deliver....
Yeah, I'm sure those companies won't want to maximize profit either.
Considering china's game plan is consistently to undercut everything, yah.
bc-250 builds are pretty cool!
tech hobbyists are unkillable as cockroaches. if we all get priced out of new parts, we’ll build our computers with e-waste.
I literally got my first computer from the dump. Technically illegal salvage...
It is ok. No one is going to make games for a gaming PC anyway.