Why, finally, it is finally time to buy a card.

 Why, finally, it is finally time to buy a card.

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It's been a difficult few years to .. well, for everyone, really. But as a result, it was also difficult for PC players to hunt for graphics cards. Between the explosion of GPU-enabled cryptocurrency, the global shortage of key semiconductors, and the second market scalpers seeking to benefit from both (not to mention the growth of PC games during the epidemic), it has been almost two years since you could buy it reliably. medium and high quality graphics cards at reasonable prices. But everything is over, and it looks like the worst GPU shortage is over. The change is seen as a catastrophic decline in cryptocurrency prices. Boiling a complex title, a speculative investment bubble in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptographic tokens has finally exploded. After rising to almost $ 70,000 USD in November last year, Bitcoin crashed to less than a third of that, with related cryptocurrencies taking the same strong decline. The reasons are complex, and are accompanied by a few additional factors such as investors losing faith even in cryptocurrency trading. But suffice it to say, a long crypto winter is upon us, and gamers are all wrapped up in a snowy day. Amid declining value like the first Ferrari of rich teens and the computer power and cost of actually growing “mining” cryptocurrency, mining is no longer making sense of the economy for most people. So everyone from the big “industrial” miners to hobbies who have assembled a rig with a handful of GPUs is not looking to buy a new hardware, and in fact, may be looking to sell the graphics cards they have cheaper. What used to be a double-whammy of power in the market to keep GPUs in the hands of players has completely returned. While chip and staff shortages continue to play out, falling demand for new cards and bulk cards used in the secondary market is returning prices to their pre-epidemic levels. In some cases we even see discounts on high-end, high-cost hardware. If you feel the need to wait longer, there are good reasons to do so. Expected new generations of graphics from Nvidia and AMD later this year if all goes well. And there is a new player on the market for the first time in decades: Intel is bringing GPUs to its various desktops worldwide in the second half of 2022. And there is a huge change in the collaboration that comes with the introduction of PCIe 5. But grateful, patient PC builders can find a reason to wait. For the first time ever, we have good reason to buy and build now. If you wait a year or more to get a fair price or even a deal on a graphics card, go ahead and pull the trigger, before someone decides we need to dig up NFTs in space or something.