SaltySalamander

The first one was literally a PC

Literally a Celeron 733MHz CPU with an nVidia GPU.

And the Chinese government is a direct shareholder in Tencent, and they have a government official on Tencent's board of directors.

Reality isn't as puppy dogs and rainbows as you seem to think it is.

True irony here.

And if you buy it used, nVidia doesn't get any of that money.

Way better investment to buy their stock rather than one of their GPUs, IMO.

AMD hasn't been truly competitive with nVidia in quite a long time.

Still using a 1080 Ti and I definitely have lots of reasons to upgrade, but I'm not willing to spread the cheeks that wide.

No, it's a direct result of observing the market during those periods and seeing the lemmings beating down doors to pay 600-1000 dollars over MSRP. They realized the market is stupid and will bear the extra cost.

The 4090 basically never went for MSRP until Q4 2024

This had nothing to do with scalpers though. Just pure corporate greed.

Apt username.

Define quality.

I see you watched that AVGN video also...