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 be true in my work too. The stuff I buy isn't really things a consumer would use, but we've sort of been piling it up a bit to the point our supply chain is getting thin. That's not super unusual in my industry though, as it's all specialized tech stuff so often times they just don't plain predict and manufacture enough of it.
We have a mixture of consumer and specialized. The thing we're really getting nailed on is custom cables: the supplier has gone from a 30 day lead time on certain cables to a 6 month lead time. Hence why orders are 5-10x as large.