Speak for your self - scored a nice GPU upgrade during the crypto crash, maybe something similar will be achievable after this insanity hits the brakes.
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notabot@piefed.social 16 hours agoIt wouldn’t be quite so bad if the previous gold rush ended first, but they seem to just be stacking up.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I thought they weren’t using gaming gpus this time though?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
Gaming GPUs during normal crypto markets don’t compute fast enough to mine crypto profitably, but if crypto prices get high enough such as during a boom cycle, it can become profitable to mine on gaming GPUs
artyom@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Until the next crisis…
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
This AI bubble needs to explode yesterday, Wall Street be damned.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
There was a nice window from about a year or two ago to about 3 months ago where no individual components were noticably inflated. Monitors took the longest to recover since the pandemic shortages so that was arguably around the beginning of this year that they seemed to fully normalize