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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53594

The NVIDIA RTX 4080 has a problem: No one is buying it -- or at least, not enough people that board partners are feeling relief from their investment. They're on the hook for millions upon millions of dollars in inventory, and it's because NVIDIA's pricing structure is so egregiously bad that sales have finally slowed.

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Sabot · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 6:22 pm Post subject:

Just selfish idiots. I’ve been going on about this when the war started in Ukraine. Once shortages of food and then gas and electricity prices went ballistic in Europe, do you think people have the money to line greedy incompetent companies like Nvidia. Companies around the world don’t even realise how much they rely on Europe. Both the eu and US are the worlds largest global GDP combined. If you can’t factor in a slowdown of car sales, house sales and white goods, then your a waste of time in the PC market.
Especially ridiculous power hungry units that Nvidia are producing- good luck with that, oh wait. They didn’t have any! Laughing

I have my eyes on a complete new PC end of next year. Not remotely before, because prices are insane along with food and utilities (as I’ve just said) As long as the economy is fucked so is sales. People gladly hang onto hardware longer; games are mega cheap in the sales and that’s what I’m buying.

Csimbi · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:06 pm Post subject:

I've been planning my upgrade for January.
Then, I saw what rubbish is sold on the market for insane prices.
Referring not to just GPUs but CPUs, motherboard, RAM, monitors.
They are just crap made for a very specific market segment.
I have no desire for 16 cores. I want 4 cores at 6GHz, said it many times.
Motherboards are for the rich and famous and so is RAM, mobo and monitors.
Also, it seems I won't be buying any SSDs or HDDs. SSDs are too small and expensive. HDDs are too big and that makes them too expensive.
There are no decent 16:10 monitors out there and I don't want much - 27 inches, 4K@120 Hz. I would but two of these. But no; they are making tons of 16:9 shit at >200Hz.
So, nothing here for an enthusiast. It's all for those that a) don't know better or b) too rich to know better.
So, I'll just wait another year... again...