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?
That would make sense for them to do. I actually wonder how that changed, because just a few years ago you mined with those ASICs for mining or it wasn't worth the trouble. Just the value increase I guess.
I'm leaning toward what seems like taking a sucker's money to me. It's not like I've got one of the desirable RTX cards or something I might want if I leave Xbox eventually. In the meantime a graphics card will not make my 2014 PC build a desirable gaming machine.
Yeah, I found the article about it.
https://archive.vn/CZ2oZ
You should definitely sell. The next-gen consoles will have higher stock levels soon, I think, you could just jump straight to a Series X.
Especially with Steam going woke and Epic being...Tencent.
Series X would be the other option too. So far I still like one One X--actually more than I expected as I figured we'd be awash with games I couldn't play by this fall. Doesn't seem that that will be the case.