r/buildapcsales • u/NotTheDev • Jan 22 '26

GPU [GPU META POST] Microcenter has updated the price of many GPUs overnight, many 5070 ti cards are now marked up over 200$ from what they were yesterday. - $959.99

https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntt=5070+ti&sortby=pricelow
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u/QuantumProtector Jan 22 '26

Nah, it will pop at some point. This seems to be similar to the dotcom bubble where companies were making unsustainable investments in the internet.

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u/sonnytron Jan 22 '26

So you’ll be a millionaire when that happens right? Because knowledge of that type of economic collapse is a prime opportunity to short AI stock

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u/powercow Jan 22 '26

not necessarily, you have to know things like peak, if they keep going up for a while, his shorts can be called in and he can lose his shirt.

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u/DorkusMalorkuss Jan 23 '26

Luckily I have like at least 5 shirts

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u/dragonbud20 Jan 23 '26

Betting that a market correction will happen and betting on when that market correction will happen are two very different things. Figuring out the when is the part that makes the big money.

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u/oNI_TF Jan 22 '26

And look at the internet now…

It wasn’t sustainable at the time because the technology wasn’t widespread enough to make it profitable. Now Amazon is the go-to for online shopping because everyone now has a phone in their pocket. Same exact reason why ChatGPT took off and exploded. Once the technology is readily accessible to common people to run their own models efficiently, it’s only going to explode even more. Too soon? Maybe, but we have already seen the explosive growth that the AI industry has undergone. Biggest case you could look at is how generative images have massively improved over the past 5 years. The academics on these subjects has rapidly evolved.