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Article is a bit old but still relevant and how gamers are being screwed.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

GPU prices suddenly tripled about 4-5 years ago, due to price gouging that was enabled by mining, scalping, and LLM demand. The pandemic made it worse. Prices have come down a little since then, but nowhere near sane ranges.

GPU makers haven't ramped up capacity to meet the increased demand, and greedflation doesn't go away easily.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Factory recertified is probably the way to go if you want powerful hardware for (relatively) cheap, new gpu prices just don't make sense anymore. Even back when RX 6x50 refreshes came out shit wasn't so cartoonishly expensive

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I got an open box 7900xtx from microcenter for a pretty good price. No regrets.

[–] Valencia 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wish they were more widespread. Closest to me is... 800 miles away? Was nice when I was near one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's a sign you need to move ;)

I agree though

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