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Conina said:
Soundwave said:

It's academic anyway.

GPUs had an unsustainable boom the from about 2017-2021 especially because of people being locked inside their homes due to a once-in-100 years global pandemic and crypto miners buying up every new GPU and then reselling them to people for like half the price once the crypto mining/NFT market went kaput. 

You locked yourself inside since 2017 for a pandemic, which outbreak was declared in 2020?

Also the number of active Steam users HASN'T declined since the end of the pandemic; both concurrent users and concurrent in-game stats have set new records this year:

Your narrative that many people only bought new graphic cards because they were a bit cheaper after the crypto crash is very weak.

Crypto was starting to boom big time in 2017/2018 sure. My neighbor went down that rabbit hole and eventually had like 7 30-series GPUs thinking he was going to be the next big crypto bros. and could upgrade his Porsche 911 to a Lambo, ended up having to sell them off for like half what he paid about a year ago. 

The fact of the matter is GPU sales have collapsed in the last 12+ months or so, it coincides exactly with people coming out of the pandemic and crypto mining going belly up. 

Fuck a GPU, the best Nvidia buy I ever made was buying about 2 grand of their stock in 2019, it's worth a lot more than what I paid for today. Only regret is I didn't buy a lot more.