<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sabalaba</author><text>The bad news is that a lot of system builders like us (we build pre-built systems pre-installed with Deep Learning software &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lambdalabs.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lambdalabs.com&lt;/a&gt;) are now used to paying more than MSRP for our GPUs. MSRP for a 1080Ti is supposed to be $699. They haven&amp;#x27;t been available even in large bulk purchases at that price for a while now. I don&amp;#x27;t see it going back down any time soon.</text><parent_chain><item><author>everyone</author><text>Does anyone know when graphics cards will be available at sane prices for people who actually want to use them one (or two max) at a time to render graphics?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NVIDIA Develops NVLink Switch: NVSwitch, 18 Ports For DGX-2</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/12581/nvidia-develops-nvlink-switch-nvswitch-18-ports-for-dgx2-more</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Obi_Juan_Kenobi</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really hard to come up with a timeline, but I&amp;#x27;d say the worst has passed.  It will take time to recover inventory, but the alt-coin market (basically, not-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies) has died down a lot and the rush to acquire mining capital has likely diminished.&lt;p&gt;6 months to a year, maybe?</text><parent_chain><item><author>everyone</author><text>Does anyone know when graphics cards will be available at sane prices for people who actually want to use them one (or two max) at a time to render graphics?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NVIDIA Develops NVLink Switch: NVSwitch, 18 Ports For DGX-2</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/12581/nvidia-develops-nvlink-switch-nvswitch-18-ports-for-dgx2-more</url></story>