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GPU Buyers Wait for Relief While Memory Keeps the Price Tag Busy
· New York time
Graphics card prices have soared as memory supplies have tightened, and Engadget reports that the squeeze may not ease soon, although some optimists disagree. The memory constraint has become part of the cost of buying hardware used for gaming and other computing tasks. For shoppers, the uncertainty complicates the familiar decision between buying now and waiting. A hoped-for price drop is not a schedule, and an upgrade that looks urgent on a product page may look different when compared with the work an existing machine actually handles. The market has produced a tidy contradiction: powerful hardware promises to make ambitious computing more accessible, while its price makes access a more ambitious purchase. Optimists can still expect improvement, but they cannot put a date on the receipt.
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