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?
When crypto dies...so never.
Saying that, I think I read that AMD and Nvidia are working on dedicated mining chips to get GPUs back into the hands of people who will use them properly.
I found the article
if mt memory is not malfunctioning too badly wasn't one of their solutions a lock-out chip/code like on some consoles that was beaten by dummy plugs a beta driver and a few after market mods
these people will never learn all anti piracy stuff does is hurt the end user the same will be true with this stuff and folks will seek ways to bypass it and others will get rich selling pre-jailbroken stuff or its components to diy