> Memory for 4x expensive

> Did we collectively forget second order thinking?

I bought 2x 16Gb NVIDIA cards this week because I don’t see hardware getting cheaper anytime soon, and because of that I totally don’t see the point of “waiting until prices go lower for graphics cards” because that might not for a long time yet!

In fact, if you include factoring in world events (and the ones that haven’t happened yet but eventually will e.g. China’s 2027 long planned take of Taiwan), then there’s no way graphics prices are going to be accessible to mere mortals until at least 2028.

But my real reasoning is that you’re going to see a flood of OpenAI and Anthropic users leave because of a) increasing pricing plans, and b) impeding business laws on the horizon about protecting sovereign data from AI (i.e data in cloud for training is a no no).

So what happens when people and companies one by one start leaving the SOTA AI cloud for from-good-enough-to-wow models? RAM and graphics cards become the new toilet paper, which is going to double again current prices.

Upgrade now before it’s too late folks!