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Przepraszam
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PostPosted: Tue, 23rd Dec 2025 01:01    Post subject:
Future looks bleak.
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PostPosted: Tue, 23rd Dec 2025 01:25    Post subject:
Frant wrote:



As I (and many others) predicted, 2026 will be the start of the era of consumer hardware dystopia.

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Przepraszam wrote:
Future looks bleak.


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PostPosted: Tue, 23rd Dec 2025 02:18    Post subject:
Aye, the path has been paved already for the ultimate jump into the cloud-y hole of nothingness, though it's not unlikely that life will still find a way(tm) despite everything. Or at least that's what I hope, as I've never paid for any gaming service and definitely plan to keep it that way in the futhurr envisioned by the giant greedy green pears.
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PostPosted: Tue, 23rd Dec 2025 02:31    Post subject:
I liked the bit about those having a lot of DDR4/DDR5 before all this shit are basically sitting on a huge investment that can be sold for several times the price paid at the time. Laughing

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PostPosted: Tue, 23rd Dec 2025 09:26    Post subject:
I am still running a 2017 AM4 mobo with a 5800X3D and 32Gig RAM. I don't feel the need to upgrade at all and it seems like I will keep this system for another 3 years at least. By far the longest I had a mobo ever.

And the 9070XT is perfectly fine/slightly overkill for the games I play at 3440x1440@100Hz. Also thanks to FSR4.

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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Jan 2026 00:08    Post subject:
https://www.techpowerup.com/344578/leaks-predict-usd-5000-rtx-5090-gpus-in-2026-thanks-to-ai-industry-demand

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PickupArtist




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Jan 2026 14:07    Post subject:
i hope more scalpers buy them and then sit on their 5000 usd bricks whenthe bubble pops just like there gonna be sitting a ton of people on ram . i expect great deals in 2027 when ddr6 comes out roflol Laughing Laughing Laughing

i still dont get where the now old useles budget mining cards went too. why havent those flooded the market yet . i only see some on american ebay in very small quanitities

i have a feeling they getting refurbed and conned scammed as second hand normal cards

i have an office machine running on 4 gigs btw for just ms office stuff ... runs fine... i actually need to check if one stick is broken or something as i couldnt bilieve it was only 4 gig when i saw it
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friketje




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Jan 2026 14:52    Post subject:
Me postponing my planned early 2025 new rig cause I believed the mid range GPU's lacked VRAM Sad .

It's the covid GPU shortage all over. And GPU prices have never fully recovered since then.
I think the industry is just exploiting the "shortage" to push for higher margins. It's an oligopoly. It's not that there isnt a shortage in production capacity, but they are not in a hurry to fix it. And I know it takes a lot of time to increase production capacitiy and those machines are in short supply also. But I'm also pretty certain if the industry realy wanted, they could have planned ahead and supply would be better. Ram suppliers learned from Nvidia how to play this game.

And while Moore's law is dead and compute isn't improving all that lot like it used to, the irony is that in this era of slow innovation the stuff is getting more expensive every year.
Such a contrast with the start of the century when hardware was cheap (although outdated allready the day you bought it)

Imho the end of PC gaming. Things will stay overpriced for a long time. When ram prices normalize they'll find something new to rip you off.
The semi industry will eventualy collaps and chips will become a comodity cause they can't maintain those absurd margins given the slow speed of innovation, but this will not happen in the near future.
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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Jan 2026 17:39    Post subject:
friketje wrote:
Imho the end of PC gaming.
Nigga please.
All it takes is for the new chinese AI iteration to leapfrog whatever the retarded americans are doing at a fraction of the cost/resources and both demand and prices will tumble down, forcing that greedy bastard Jensen to sell his leather jacket collection. Or hopefully needing to boil and eat them in order to survive Very Happy

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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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pho08




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Jan 2026 18:13    Post subject:
Przepraszam wrote:
https://www.techpowerup.com/344578/leaks-predict-usd-5000-rtx-5090-gpus-in-2026-thanks-to-ai-industry-demand

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https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-prices-already-pushing-toward-4000
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