I'm curious others thoughts on when (or perhaps if) this supply issue with chips and GPUs comes to an end. I have to think it will at some point, but I don't follow PC stuff much.
Reasoning is I'm trying to solve a dilemma. I was about to sell off my old Radeon card, I only replaced it because the fan was noisy. I fixed the fan, then got distracted and let it sit in a drawer. Now I'm in drawer clean out phase. So I put it in my PC to test it. The thing is, it is still more than enough graphics card for me and I've got a friend offering me $100 more than I paid for my GTX 1660 in December 2019. I think they are fucking insane myself (it's not even a good card), but the prices check out when I look online.
So, I'm thinking about selling it, because I'm pretty much only a couch/TV/console gamer. I may convert to PC and build a totally new HTPC when my Xbox wears out it's welcome, but we are talking 2023-ish. I can't imagine I'd even want a GTX 1660 in 2023. Do we think it will still be impossible to get hardware by then?
California is banning high power personal computers, it's price will only go up.
How do they plan to enforce that? If it's anything like my blue shit hole's retarded high capacity magazine ban it's mostly there to impede people who are unwilling/unable to do the bare minimum to get around it.
It’s a bit more complicated than that. It’s still dumb. Linus tech tips had a video explaining it. It’s essentially based on efficiency of energy use over actual energy use. So a high end machine with a crap power supply could be banned but same machine but swapped with a more efficient power supply could be ok. Like I said it’s dumb and overly wordy, but the only company I can remember being hit with it hard was dell/Alienware. Enforcement would essentially be not allowing companies to ship to addresses in the state for those products or face fines (similar to trying to buy a magazine that holds more than 10rounds and shipping to California. The store will cancel your order and not ship it so they don’t end up in a CA kangaroo court.
If that were true, then prices would only go down, for lack of demand from California.
Just like the prices went down for automatic rifles, and the prices went down for refrigerators that use Freon, and the prices went down for toilets that can actually flush, and the prices went down for incandescent lightbulbs...
Retard, if something gets banned, the demand doesn't go away, the prices just go up.
That's not at all related.
Those items were banned entirely, not just in one Marxist-Feminist coalition shithole.
only long as demand is on point consumers are more than happy to spent