Predictions on the end of the "Great Tech Shortage"

[friedpiggy]

I am looking to build up a new desktop gaming rig and pretty much every online store has more products out of stock than they have available. What are the predictions for when stock levels will return to normal?

 

[Faux_Grey]

Ampere 3XXX Nvidia GPUs are going to be short stocked into next year.
Everything else is pretty much available, there's not much stopping people from building a semi decent gaming PC with something like an AMD 3600X and a GTX 1660.
Samsung memory & storage may be more scarce due to their texas controller manufacturing plant being off.

Unfortunately, if you're waiting for the 3060/3060ti/3070 you're SOL.
3080's are currently in stock with wootware if you want to pay 27k for one, which is ridiculous.

 

[Barbarian Conan]

Ampere 3XXX Nvidia GPUs are going to be short stocked into next year.
Everything else is pretty much available, there's not much stopping people from building a semi decent gaming PC with something like an AMD 3600X and a GTX 1660.
Samsung memory & storage may be more scarce due to their texas controller manufacturing plant being off.

Unfortunately, if you're waiting for the 3060/3060ti/3070 you're SOL.
3080's are currently in stock with wootware if you want to pay 27k for one, which is ridiculous.

I assume the hope is also that some of the other tech will come down in price when there is more stock, for example the Ryzen 5000 stuff, and (OT) the new consoles.

Anyway, I originally thought March we would start seeing price drops. Now I think late this year if we're lucky or next year is more likely.

 

[Ancalagon]

It seems that there is lower demand for AMD gpus, because presumably they are less good at mining. Anyway, mining will keep demand for GPUs high for some time. At least another 6 months or so, but probably more like another year. There has to be oversupply of cryptocurrency for the mining rewards to drop down - then that will decrease demand.

That or AMD and Nvidia implementing BIOS level fixes to prevent future cards from used for mining - certainly not impossible. The new Nvidia 3060 is apparently nearly useless for mining - it wouldn't surprise me if AMD and Nvidia look to segment their markets into gaming and mining.

 

[Barbarian Conan]

It seems that there is lower demand for AMD gpus, because presumably they are less good at mining. Anyway, mining will keep demand for GPUs high for some time. At least another 6 months or so, but probably more like another year. There has to be oversupply of cryptocurrency for the mining rewards to drop down - then that will decrease demand.

That or AMD and Nvidia implementing BIOS level fixes to prevent future cards from used for mining - certainly not impossible. The new Nvidia 3060 is apparently nearly useless for mining - it wouldn't surprise me if AMD and Nvidia look to segment their markets into gaming and mining.

Which isn't necessarily a good thing imo.
I justified my 1080Ti purchase with "it's gonna pay for iteself!"
If they gimp the mining power, I don't know how I can convince myself to pay R18K for a GPU.

 

[Ancalagon]

Which isn't necessarily a good thing imo.
I justified my 1080Ti purchase with "it's gonna pay for iteself!"
If they gimp the mining power, I don't know how I can convince myself to pay R18K for a GPU.

True, I agree with you. But everyone realises the same thing - why pay for a cheap GPU when an expensive GPU will pay for itself?

And that pushes demand up. Even a 3080 can pay for itself in 3 months. Maybe 4-5 months if you game a lot, but still.

 

[sn3rd]

RTX 3070 seems to be in stock at Evetech, if that's your thing: https://www.evetech.co.za/msi-geforce-rtx-3070-gaming-x-trio-8gb/best-deal/9694.aspx

 

[ponder]

What hardware are you looking at?

 

[friedpiggy]

I was thinking of trying to build up a system with a Ryzen 3200G as it would sadly be an upgrade on what I currently use gpu wise. Could then add in a dedicated GPU at a later stage and upgrade the cpu at that time as well.

 

[ponder]

I was thinking of trying to build up a system with a Ryzen 3200G as it would sadly be an upgrade on what I currently use gpu wise. Could then add in a dedicated GPU at a later stage and upgrade the cpu at that time as well.

That's available now.