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RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives (arstechnica.com)
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GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find.

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[–] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There's always a reason for prices to go up, never for them to go down, isn't there? Tried and tested strategy with oil. Price per barrel goes up, fuel goes up. Price per barrel goes down, fuel stays stable. We all see through your greed little motherfuckers, but the reality is that it's an oligopolistic market and there's no escape.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    prices can go down, they just dont publicly announce why.

    for example, after covid functionally ended and the cryptoboom crashed, Nvidia and AMD over ordered on dies. so there was a flood of Ampere and RDNA2 gpus they needed to get rid of. because of the flood, it killed the launch value of Lovelace and RDNA3.

    Ampere stock was legitamitely bad that when EVGA left the gpu sales market, one of the biggest reasons was because Nvidia forced AIBs to buy up their ampere stock if they wanted any lovelace stock.

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