Why would people pay $2,000 for a video game graphics card?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Why would people pay $2,000 for a video game graphics card?

Jon Pod Van Damm: Apr 6, 2009; THE POSSESSION OF WEALTH IS IN AND OF ITSELF A SIGN OF POOR VIRTUE. AS SUCH:
1 NEVER TRUST ANY RICH PERSON.
2 NEVER HIRE ANY RICH PERSON.
BY RULE 1, IT IS APPROPRIATE TO PRESUME THAT ALL DEGREES AND CREDENTIALS HELD BY A WEALTHY PERSON ARE FRAUDULENT. THIS JUSTIFIES RULE 2--RULE 1 NEEDS NO JUSTIFIC

These things might affect gpu prices

A) the Bitcoin bubble
B) memory pricing due to price fixing and artificial limiting of supply
C) trump tariffs on electronics from China. it also had an affect on shipping costs when everyone rushed to ship stuff before the tariffs took place
D) Nvidia only having 1 competitor: AMD until Intel recently said they would make discrete gpus
E) Nvidia and AMD focusing on machine learning, Bitcoin mining instead of gaming
F) AMD diverting manpower from PC gpu development to make custom SoCs for Playstation and Xbox

Jon Pod Van Damm fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Jan 30, 2019

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