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Outside some popular models, wonder if there is not some artificiality here
I don't mine, and the house is good on gaming GPUs (3090Ti +
I don't think they are that cheap really. Not sure why you are declaring it so? Older models had always dropped rapidly in price previously. I don't even think we are near original depreciation levels even now.
Disaster for whom? Oh, you mean, when shopping for a card?
You don't think the supply chain problem was deliberate? So, the timing was so, it suddenly got a lot better when the mining craze calmed down (cards were gradually but surely not as profitable to mine due to?)? Okay. I have a cheap bridge to sell you.
You make many assumptions and all of them are incorrect. I have been PC gaming for decades and I have been buying/building for 30 years. My point of this post was that just 1-2 years ago new cards were insanely expensive while used cards were just as bad. These days one can pick up a capable gaming card for less than $100 ... and I am thrilled and happy to write about it. I build PCs for financially-challenged individuals and the "crash" in prices has been a blessing for the hobby.
I never understand this take. If you were able to invest in something and almost be guaranteed an ROI in a very short time and then be able to sell that investment for the price you paid initially, would you not do it?
LOL. Okay. How convenient.
I wasn't saying that. Your reading comprehension needs work.
No you see COVID was just an excuse to keep GPU supply very low, thus allowing everyone to jack up prices and make the reasonably priced 30 series unattainable.
I am not even sure what phenomenon you try to start to explain, GPU supply was much higher during covid than just before or just after no ?, and it is at its lowest since the late 90s right now.
I think people assume that because they can't go down and buy a card that it must be artificially controlled. All they had to do was go down to any PC parts store on their restock day and see the line of people buying them up immediately.
I knew I should have added the /s.
Some popular crypto at the time like Etherum where using GPUs a lot and crypto made 2 thing, huge demands in volume and a demands ready to pay really high price (i.e. rising the price did not diminish the demands as much that it would normally would) because as long as it was profitable it was a non brainer to still buy for people.
I have watched gas prices climb back to $3.59 this week, I do question what people are buying in cars and how fast the fools are driving these days, it's 65mph on 73/74 and they blow by you doing 80mph, if we all work from one supply chain of gas, I don't move around alot but my Corolla does get 35.7mpg all around in my rural area, a car is the price your willing to pay for your own taxi ride = reason it's tax to death (taxi ride meaning).
The time lines were convenient, no?
The time line to what or what, GPU supply in the last 5 years what at is highest during peak covid-crypto of 2021 early 2022
We certainly could save a lot of fuel/money by strictly enforcing 55-60mph on interstates. But then again we also could have done the same by not having so many trucks and SUVs on the road either.
It was convenient to have supply chain problems at exactly the same time, give or take, as the mining craze - so, not only were there supply problems but demand far exceeded what supply there was - so everyone was making a killing except for ordinary Joe Blow gamer.
Less of a killing than if they could have sold more and fabricate GPU for less money without the supply issue too, it was quite unfortunate in some sense, they protected themselve a bit from how much used market oversupply to deal with too but with the AI craze that seem to prefer even need the pro-line not sure if it would have been that big of a deal for nvidia.
That may be your point but it was a very special set of curcumstances that lead to that. Not something that is normal in the last 30 years. My point is that prices are still not low especially in the second hand market. We still seem to be hanging onto this elevated price bubble for no logical reason.