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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    The PC market has shrunk 80-90% in one year.

    Even before that the GPU market was overvalued thanks to unusually high demand from COVID and unusually high demand from crypto mining the decade before.

    Even consoles are reaching the $1000 mark soon.

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      7 hours ago

      This thread is calling out a legitimate problem, but things aren’t that bad.

      Last year the market grew by 9%. This year it is projected to shrink by 11%. That’s huge, but not 80-90%.

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      7 hours ago

      The PC market has shrunk 80-90% in one year.

      The cost of GPU’s and memory increased 5-10x in 1 year. What did you expect?

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        7 hours ago

        Also the old stuff still works great if you aren’t running AI. Hell I have a FX-8350 and a 1060 which is just fine for most things…and I think that CPU is from 2015.

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        Not just GPUs. This time is RAM and storage are also massively inflated because they’re allocated for a product that nobody really wants and nobody wants to pay for.