When I built my first system was around the time crypto was affecting prices. I ended up getting an entry level card that was just good enough to run games on my 1080P monitor at at least 60fps. When things cooled off I upgraded my card.

At this point though, Im not sure it’d make sense to try and build something with how many components are affected. And thats what makes deciding tough. There’s a good chance that you’ll be waiting for a year, possibly more. I think even if the AI bubble bursted tomorrow you’d still have to wait a while because a lot of the silicon needed for these components are going into hardware specifically build for AI datacenters, unlike with how cryptominers were able to use consumer GPUs.

So I’d say it depends on whether or not you’d want to wait long term.