Comment by regularfry
11 hours ago
There's a non-small contingent who lucked into the periodic games machine upgrade at the right time to snag a {3,4,5}090 rig just before everything exploded. It's a small contingent now but it was less so then. And now those people can add a second card for roughly what that whole system would have cost new originally.
The current supply chain problems will eventually pass.
So will the stock of 3090s, as well as their ability to run contemporary local models. And there will be no supply of newer equivalents of those GPUs, because NVIDIA has since wisened up, and is using the very capabilities you need for local LLMs as market segment differentiator.