Now Is The Time To Buy A Gaming Card
By Tech of Tomorrow
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Gaming cards are back in stock**: Video cards are starting to become available in stock again on Amazon and other places, though not necessarily at MSRP. [00:58], [02:55] - **MSRP prices are not being met**: Currently, video cards are not being sold at their Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) anywhere, with many retailers significantly increasing prices. [03:06], [03:44] - **Crypto mining fuels demand**: As long as video cards can be used for cryptocurrency mining and generate profit, demand will likely remain high, potentially repeating past shortages. [05:48], [06:13] - **NVIDIA's LHR limitations are bypassed**: NVIDIA's attempts to limit crypto mining on their cards with lower hash rates (LHR) have been largely ineffective, as users have found ways to bypass these restrictions. [08:10], [08:21] - **PC gaming is less original**: The speaker feels that modern video games, particularly first-person shooters, lack originality and are often a rehash of previous titles, making the industry less exciting than it used to be. [11:50], [12:11] - **Video card drought is a long-term issue**: The scarcity and inflated pricing of video cards have been an ongoing problem for years, potentially dating back to 2016, and may not be a temporary issue. [13:47], [13:51]
Topics Covered
- Video card prices defy MSRP, but are they truly available?
- Will the crypto boom permanently inflate video card prices?
- Nvidia's LHR fails to deter miners, rendering its feature useless.
- PC gaming's golden age is over, replaced by rehashed titles.
- The PC gaming market is broken, and it might never recover.
Full Transcript
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so
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yeah just having a little fun again here
and here in my little studio here so
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video cards seem to be really actually
starting to become in stock
but
will that solve
all the problems that the pc gaming
industry has faced over the last few
years
maybe maybe not but
let's talk about video cards
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so after watching a few other vids and
stuff and going out and actually doing
some research actually you know from
seeing the comments on my last video
there are video cards in stock in
certain places um i'm not saying that
best buy is actually going to be one of
those places you may get lucky and find
one at best buy
but um
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i don't really know if that is actually
going to happen because when we tried
before i couldn't do it but
i am seeing cards on amazon and other
places that are in stock now here's the
other thing though
these cards are not being sold at the
msrp really anywhere now i know some
other people have said hey i found a
card at msrp
i would love for people to post links
down below in this video to any place
that you can find after this video that
have video cards in stock that you know
of because you guys are the audience and
there's so many more of you out there
than than there is of just me you know
what i mean there's just so many more of
you to actually help out and help
everybody out here with this because
i feel that the way that everything's
been going
so many people are gouging even
even amazon the company's on there
they're just gouging i mean
if a car is supposed to sell at an msrp
that should be what it is now i've had
an argument with a couple of friends of
mine about this stuff because if you
walk into
a guitar place to buy a guitar
and the msrp on that guitar is 15.99
and they're trying to sell that guitar
to you for 29.99 you're going to be like
go frack yourself there's no way on
earth i'm going to buy that guitar
that's msrp at that in fact what you're
going to try to do is get it for under
msrp
that's been the big deal forever and why
i call my hook up aj at sweetwater
whenever i want something whenever i
want something i call my homie aj and
say hey man what kind of deal can you
get me on this because i don't want to
pay that msrp and i usually get a pretty
good deal on stuff so
you know that's a cool thing but with
video cards
there's nothing like that anymore there
used to be
back in the day i had hookups for video
cards everywhere now i'm going to fully
admit to you guys 100
me being sick for so many years um all
the chemicals in my body me dying just
everything that happened to me over the
last you know few years
affected me and my relationships with
the industry
i am not in touch with the industry as
much as i used to i'm sure you guys
noticed on the channel i'm really trying
to refine my identity on here and see
exactly you know where i'm wanting to go
and do it because i'm not really the
same exact person that i used to be i
don't have my team anymore so you know
doing all hardcore video card testing
and all this stuff now when i don't
really even have very many more video
cards after moving and stuff and
watching stuff disappear over and over
and over again it's just ridiculous um
i'm not even gonna go there but
here's the thing though
if video cards are going to be in stock
that's pretty cool they're not going to
sell for the msrp
that's some bs now here's the other
thing though even if video cards do
start to come in stock for right now
because as you guys have seen the crypto
market is kind of taking up
kaboom
it's just like blown up in a bad way
there's all kinds of even netflix
specials now
i know some people are going to say oh
my god that's going to be the end of
cryptocurrency that stuff's going down
okay i'm going to tell you right now
it's just going to come back in a
different way
as long as video cards
can be used to do any type of mining
any type of thing like that where
somebody can buy a video card
and make some kind of digital money that
they can trade for real cash or maybe
get rich quick they're going to do it
because all kinds of people did make
millions upon millions of dollars doing
all this mining stuff they did it's just
a fact like i said there are specials
now on youtube next excuse me not
youtube netflix pardon me i made a
booboo but anyways if you go over to
netflix there's always new specials
about this stuff so obviously you know
the crypto market was hotter than hell
and that's why you know probably the
main reason really people want to say
other reasons but i really think at the
core of it it's just that these cards
were bought up by everybody even
corporations and stuff who knew that
about this could buy giant big batches
of cards
cryptomine them and then maybe release
them you know onto ebay later on and
make make a fortune because the card
market so you know
so it was so up for so long they
can make a lot of money either way they
can make money coming in make money
coming out so i think that you know
right now
if you can get a video card you probably
should buy even if you really don't
really need it and you've got the extra
cash
right now
i would go fishing and catch me some
video cards that's just the way it is
because
when the crypto miner or whatever new
mining comes up whatever new name it
comes out with
if it can do it on a video card they're
going to re-buy the video card market
now nvidia
i don't think they really liked my last
video that i made about the pissing on
people they don't really think they
appreciated it i got a phone call the
next day nobody really said anything to
me but i just felt like they were
uncomfortable about it and plus you know
i think that that they feel that since
they put the lower hash rates on them
you know the lhr and their cards they're
like you know they're saying hey we're
doing our best you know to limit people
you know from doing mining on these
cards but obviously it really didn't do
that much because people hacked their
way around it and there's all kinds of
stuff on the internet of how to hack and
get around this so i mean i really don't
know
how much value there is in that
particular thing i mean no offense to my
friends at nvidia but i just don't if
you make a feature on a card
and that feature can just be hacked and
wiped out
well i mean
what's the point
i mean it's like
you know hey we have a door that'll
that'll unlock what with our mind but we
don't have telekinesis well
okay yeah i don't know that particular
aspect doesn't make any sense to me
whatsoever but as long as cards can be
used by these people to make cash and
then sell it back to a freaking market
that's like
just totally you know just
doesn't have anything at all video cards
like i've talked to so many of my
friends of mine they're like they they
text me like hey dude will we ever see a
like video card under
again and i'm like
i don't know you know i really don't
know i mean it almost seems like those
days are gone that's just so sad because
i've been in this industry a long time
and i remember back in the day when 3d
effects came out and their cards were so
awesome and i was buying those cards up
there were cards available all over the
place sometimes they'd run out of stock
but if one place ran a stock you could
go to another place
pc gaming has grown so exponentially
since the beginning because every kid
when he's stuck at home these days wants
to plan a computer game no longer do
kids play outside i never see that
anymore never i see kids playing at the
park playing in soccer and stuff and i
give that a thumbs up because that's
family with their kids and i think
that's freaking amazing but
just the kids outside playing playing
war playing tag doing whatever you don't
see that anymore kids are at home
playing video games most of them are
and with the pandemic well guess what
nothing to do so a pandemic all this
other stuff
it's wiped out not only the video card
market but honestly the entire computer
market in general has been just whacked
and there's been crazy stuff the entire
time you had california trying to make
up laws saying well if your computer you
know isn't isn't you know energy
efficient enough um you cannot ship or
sell that computer you have to buy the
parts here in california or buy parts
separately and build your own system or
buy it from a california company that
falls within our standards
yes sir like i said i've been in this in
a long time
this used to be i'm telling you a really
really fun industry pc gaming used to be
fun
for me it was fresh it was great i was
here in the beginning it was like a
whole new world opened up i came from a
console background um i started playing
on a computer back when it was just a
little to tape
tape a guy named steve day lived an
apartment complex went over to his pad
he had a tape and a computer
and i was just like wow i was stuck
right there like wow this is cool i got
to plant it a little bit and everything
and i was i was amazed yeah i was just
like wow this is totally cool you know
and since then i've just been hooked on
doing stuff and gaming for many years
for me was the most exciting part of my
life now as i've gotten older and i've
played a bunch of games i'm just going
to be honest with you guys
at this point now the games that come
out
most of them
aren't very original
tv sometimes is original games sometimes
are original but most of the time it's
just a rehash of the same thing i mean
come on a first-person shooter
is a first-person shooter
it may have another gun it may have
another cool little thing here there but
they're all a first person shooter
that's what they are
there's doesn't seem to be much change i
don't see people really really totally
reinventing the game too much i mean
back in the day all these games are like
brand new and you just be like oh my god
wow this is so cool but now it's just
like oh my god okay that's the same
thing we're on what battlefield this
call of duty that i mean you guys know
what i mean this industry has changed
it's just to me not as fun as it used to
be there may be a billion more people
doing it because obviously since when i
first started there's been more people
on the earth period you know and
it's popular
kids like gaming it's the most popular
thing in the planet but without video
cards and the ability to buy them
guess what
it's hard to be in the pc
arena right it just is so we're gonna
have to see i will put some links down
below to the video cards that i can find
on amazon that are in stock you guys can
make the choice you can be like hey okay
you know they're just a little bit
higher so i'll pay the price but at
least they're in stock at the video card
or you can veto that and just say
no i'm only waiting till these cards
become msrp
but
for right now it does seem like the
video card drought is going to take a
back seat for a little bit
but only time will tell because if any
other mining comes around like i said
the whole thing will just start
repeating itself again and again and
again because it's been going on for
years
i went back and watched a video of mine
from like 2018 and i was like wow
this whole thing has been going on for a
long time i mean it has been going on
almost since like 2016
it's been going on now we're almost in
you know we're in 2022 in the middle of
it
so is it really going away or is it just
changing i want to hear your comments
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