In the immortal words of CJ, "Ah, s#$%, here we go again." If you've been keeping up with the tech news in the last year, you no doubt know that "Artificial Intelligence" is the next big thing -- heck, you can even use it to search for info from PCWorld's archives. That kind of growth potential has investors salivating and engineers scrambling for hardware. Unfortunately, it looks like consumer-grade GPUs are a great way to boost your processing power for AI computations…just like they were for crunching numbers for cryptocurrency. If that sounds familiar, it's because the crypto boom in the late 2010s and the start of the pandemic in 2020 created an absolute nightmare for anyone who wanted to buy a GPU.