During the Covid GPU shortage, my card died and I had to go back to my Geforce 9800 GX2. A monster of a card (in 2008).
I did not have a good time. But it was incredible it even worked at all.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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There is still a GPU shortage, but they just blamed Covid. Before they blamed crypto. Now they blame AI.
I'm aware of the current shortage.
Unfortunately I feel we'll be forever prone to this now that GPUs are useful for far more than just gaming. The market is being shared with people who are willing to spend a lot more for the same silicon.
The vendors should stop calling it GPUs if its not used as a GPU. AI workloads are not GPU, cryptomining are not GPU. Nvidia and alike should create a different name for it. Nvidia H100 for example is still called GPU, but it has nothing to do with a normal GPU you and I use.
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that is also fine. Or just call it "AI cards" when these chips are obviously meant from AI interference workloads.
It's about the type of computation it does, not their fault it fits better for those use cases lol
Can't artificially increase prices without artificially increasing demand by manufacturing an artificial shortage.
Don't forget Untitled Goose Game!
That quiet smile at the end is great. It's good to have purpose, regardless of what it is. I still have all my old cards for whatever reason, all the way back to the TNT. It will never get used again, but I feel trashing it is disrespectful for all the joy it gave me when it could.
I started my daughter on a custom DMG gameboy I threw together with a new shell and rechargeable battery. Spare copy of pokemon red. Since then, got her a ds lite and fixed an old 3ds screen and she got that, too. Was going to grab her a mini pc to hook up to the television so she could play modded minecraft, but she seemed less enthusiastic about that.