• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    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.

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      4 days ago

      There is still a GPU shortage, but they just blamed Covid. Before they blamed crypto. Now they blame AI.

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        Can’t artificially increase prices without artificially increasing demand by manufacturing an artificial shortage.

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        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.

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          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 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.

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    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.