huh, turns out building a new PC like 3 months ago was a galaxy brain move on my part
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Think the AI bubble popping will cause prices to crash or will some other "industry" suck up all the hardware instead? I struggle to imagine cloud computing/compute-as-a-service being that big of a thing.
The CaaS thing is because they project the AI Bubble popping in the near future. There will be a lot of unused data centers with outdated hardware lying around, they need to monetize them after the AI companies collapse or move on.
The problem is that they're producing data center products, which are completely unusable to normal people. The crash won't put products you can use on the market, companies are making GPU's that can't output videos, computers that need to integrate with building cooling, and chips that are completely unified (so you can't pull out the memory to use even if you wanted to).
Prices will stay high.
Once the demand for those gpus fall of a cliff they’re still going to have that memory produce and need to put it somewhere. There won’t be “gaming on a used cheap datacenter” GPU, but there will be memory that needs to be put into something.
Yeah it’s purpose built to suck ass. It’s like the old “car idling to solve sudokus” meme but in this case the car can’t be used as a car, it can only be used to idle, regardless of whether sudokus exist to be solved.
I have no idea what could suck up compute the way ai can.
I mean, if they make it so it's the only affordable option. 'You will own nothing and be happy about it' kind of hours.
I think it’s unlikely something else comes along with the same demand AI has for hardware for awhile just with prices being so high now and when the bubble pops the rest of the US economy is gonna be in too rough shape to be investing much especially in something that would likely seem to be a similar risk as AI.
I think if you’re looking to get hardware just waiting until the bubble crashes will be smart since all the overproduction will lead to prices plummeting to get rid of inventory.
If one was thinking of building a good gaming PC soon (I probably can't begin to afford it, but you know, hypothetically), and wanted it to be mainly a Linux box, but hopefully still high end for gaming, would it be wise to buy just the GPU for it right now? Even though the rest of the components can't be purchased at the moment, maybe they can be later, at least the sky rocketing prices of the GPUs would have been avoided. Also, assuming this hobby is something this hypothetical person knows very little about, what GPU should they get? As far as best bet on being as future-proof as possible. It should be AMD for Linux, not NVIDIA right?
Get RAM first before it spikes worse. I'll be real, modern games aren't that much more demanding than 10 year old games if you want those 10 year old games at ultra settings and the modern ones at medium settings. A used or refurbished GPU would suit basically anyone's gaming needs just fine nowadays.
Supertuxkart doesnt need a high end GPU.
More serious answer: recommend just getting a very powerful integrated CPU/GPU combo. It should be able to play most games. A GPU is overkill if the goal is to play games and not just stare at them.
Its most similar to what the steam deck uses (integrated amd).
RAM might be going up faster than GPU prices? It's hard to tell what the best move right now is. CPU prices are probably not going to change much, and motherboards and PSUs use much more standardized components that are unlikely to skyrocket in price. One of (RAM, SSD, GPU) is going to be the best choice, can't say more than that.
Nvidia has Linux support, it's just not open source. I run amd on windows with no real issues for gaming. I think amd for Linux and Nvidia for windows is probably not wrong per say but highly exaggerated. (unless open source everything is critical for you).
Intel also produces a good card for the price, but driver support is not ideal. Getting better but not ideal. Avoid Intel at the moment if you don't want to tinker.
Considering Nvidia has been calling Israel their second home, I’d rather not have their drivers installed on my OS.
As a millennial - it's fine, I was foolish to expect anything good at all ... but I don't really need to play games newer than 2010 & I should be happy with that. Just need to have enough PCs in storage to last me a lifetime (shouldn't be too long).
Compute as a Service is going to become reality as local compute will become crazy expensive.
Hardware as software as a service. Then once they somehow manage to use fiber optics to mint crypto or sell shitty pictures of the same cartoon monkey, we'll have bandwidth as hardware as software as bandwidth as software as hardware as a service.
Platform and infrastructure as a service is a thing
I was hoping to wait until a 24GB version came out of this next gen but looks like I'll be skipping it. Thankful I bought my RAM kits beffore this fiasco and I'm on AM4 platform. My main gaming computer is built. Got most of the parts for my data cruncher - just need power supply really. The AM4 platform is more than capable of running everything maxed out for now.
Wonder how much 7900xtx are going for now, but I really don't need that with a data cruncher, though BONIC can use it. I suspect people will be scrambling for last gen and refurbished parts. But I really want that 9950x3D2 with that massive L3 cache. Just to see it tear things to pieces. Guess I got to wait till AM 6, Zen 9, R420xXx in 2030 now. 
but also 
No shot. If the author confuses regular memory with graphics memory (unless they think we're still running GDDR5 like it's 2010) I don't believe them
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