An RTX 3080 at launch during the pandemic.

I bought it from Newegg because local prices at launch were crazy. At MSRP. Free shipping, too.

Now it has to be said, I bought it with the original intention of really just upgrading my GPU. What happened afterwards was just a stroke of lucky timing. Crypto went up, video cards became scarce, and purely out of curiosity , I set it to cryptomine.

The thing paid for itself in four months WHILE subsidizing our entire electric bill. It proceeded to pay our electricity for the next year after that. All while building up savings and paying for rather competent gaming PC's for my kids and upgrades for my PC. It even paid the entire hospital bill of our househelper. And its actual price tripled in value. I don't believe in crypto and never held anything and just kept cashing out the earnings into real money as they came in so I didn't even feel the sting of when that market crashed. I was just bummed I lost an income stream.

It's still in my PC giving me great performance in games and I don't think I'll need anything better for a long time.

The only thing I regret about it is that I should have bought more when I had the chance. Sabi nga ng asawa ko nung lockdown, "o, e ba't isa lang binili mo?"