RTX5090 is my best investment at the time of writing

Story

Last summer I built my own PC and dropped an RTX 5090 in it as the GPU. Paid 99k NTD for it back then, which already felt like a lot. Then time goes on — I heard the news that Micron was killing off its Crucial consumer memory line to go all-in on AI, and prices for PC parts, especially memory and storage, started creeping up. I didn’t really connect it to anything, honestly. But recently, around the time of writing this TIL, I checked the same shop where I bought my card, and the exact same GPU is now sitting at around 123k NTD. Same product, one year later, ~24k NTD more. Wild how one year can change the price of a GPU.

The Takeaway

What I took from it:

• A consumer product is supposed to depreciate over time. This one did the opposite — it appreciated.
• Sometimes the tables just turn like this, and it’s kind of unexplainable. No deep analysis needed.
• Not every investment comes as gold, money, or shares. Sometimes it’s just sitting in your PC case. Is it really an investment if I’d have to sell the thing I actually use to cash in? No. But let me have this one.