The GPU price hike is here and you should avoid any Nvidia card
Fixed the headline. You’re welcome.
just avoid buying hardware at all
I’m avoiding computing I guess… I won’t pay those absurd prices, and I will not every pay for cloud bullshit.
I’ll abandon computing and the internet if it comes to it.
That’s pretty much the point I arrived at a couple years ago when prices never really did come down after the crypto bullshit tailed off.
The latest hardware I bought was a 16 GB kit of DDR3 for my spare parts server.
I bought a 1080 for every computer in the house when all that really went stupid. They paid for themselves in 3 months of mining at night. I eventually stopped because I wanted the cards to last. They all still run.
I wish I could point and click new GPUs at AI and get them for free.
is here
As in, it wasn’t here a year ago? Two years ago?
Its been here for long enough to set up a tent
You should also be avoiding cards with 8GB of VRAM.
I’ve been avoiding Nvidia for a while now. Too much buck per bang.
Every PC gamer in my circle did an emergency purchase of a new PC this year because as bad as it’s now, we all know it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse and probably won’t go down in at least 4 years if ever. Even my broke ass bought a 5080 and a 5800X3D (because I had 96GB DDR4 RAM already). Even my wife agreed better do it now than having to buy during peak AI price stupidity.
What does one use that much DDR for?
Web browser tabs.
(I only have 64GB, but that’s my answer. Firefox still eventually runs out of memory and crashes, BTW. Not blaming the browser itself; I think there’s a memory leak in the JS in some of the tabs I keep open.)
Interesting. I use tons of bookmarks and close tabs/firefox frequently so I often forget that web browsers are capable of using that much memory.
Virtualization work, also helps a with memory leaks with games occasionally. I’ve had 64GB RAM since 2011 with the x79 boards and never went below that quantity. RAM was cheap so why not.
AMD, Linux and indie games for the win.
Waiting on China to pick up the pace, I can wait…
avoiding nvidia since the gtx 1070, which I still have and is fully functional!
I see, a man of culture. My last Nvidia card is also a GTX 1070 (before that had the 970 and before that the 750 Ti). Its in my last PC build, as I upgraded to AMD with my new PC. AMD is just much better choice on Linux. Imagine new low end cards in 2026 will be released with 4gb VRAM, while the mid tier 1070 has 8gb VRAM. It has been 10 years.
Im gonna frame the FX-8350 and 1070. True workhorses
A B580 has 12 gigs, sips power, and is cheap as hell. Not everybody needs a flagship Nvidia guys.
I’m kind of tapping out of it all for now. This 2070s will have to hold on another 7 years. There are still so many games I haven’t played that I own and this card is too powerful for them, so I might as well do the 'ol backlog.
The RAM shortage is going to make them a lot of money. Aside from the price hike now, when RAM becomes sane again they can release 16GB versions of the same cards so they don’t even have to come up with new chips.
