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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

In all honesty I swapped from a Titan X (2015) to a 3080(2020). That was a 5 year gap and it’s right there again but haven’t needed anything more for anything I play. Pretty sure I’ll likely just buy a used last gen card whenever it is I need another one. Which will likely be far easier to get as everyone kills themselves for the new gen while also being cheaper. It will still be a noticeable upgrade to me. Don’t understand the need to upgrade every year or every other year even. The improvements are so small between gens now.

Took a bit to get the 3080 founders that I needed to physically fit my case and never again…it’s just not worth the headache.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Because I'm a Gamer! A Gamer! The most oppressed minority on the planet!

But the author's actual reason is:

Our hobby deserves better from the companies that made their billions on the backs of PC gaming

Which seems about as true as saying Microsoft made their billions on the backs of PC gaming.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Because I'm a Gamer! A Gamer! The most oppressed minority on the planet!

Said no one with 2 neurons to rub together, ever...

Except in OP's whet dreams where they ride a white horse to battle to save all those oppressed by the moustache twirling evil aryan gamers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

we could always stop buying stuff there's a shit ton of good games that run on low end hardware

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They have been starving the market for months. All part of the plan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

years, dear. it's years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was legit surprised to see my local microcenter sold out when I checked today. Pretty sure they had multiple hundreds in stock and now there's only 1 left today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there still crypto mining stuff going on with GPUs?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

It's partially AI, but in all likelihood customers aren't buying with AI as a high priority; instead, supply is constrained because most of the same production capacity is being used on AI-focused enterprise hardware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not as far as I know most of the popular coins either use asic mining or proof of stake. Maybe they use them for memecoin or something idk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

yeah! I don't deserve better, but the people whose fault this is deserve much worse.