How does this make ANY sense? (GPU prices, even lower-end)

[alexruiz]

I regretted not picking up a RX580 when they were $160 but that was now long time ago. Since then I have simply given up and sat on my GTX 960. I have to say that it handles 4K desktop fine. No way I am paying the current prices of graphics cards.

Was the RX580 at $160 ever?
I remember seeing the RX 470 at $130, but nothing close to that for the RX 580.
I never was able to get my hands on an RX 580.

 

[zinfamous]

Cancer is not a bad way to check out of life on this earth.

Yes it is. I hope you don't have to watch your friends and loved ones die that way.

 

[ZGR]

Nvm

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yes it is. I hope you don't have to watch your friends and loved ones die that way.

Yeah cancer is probably one of the worse ways to check out, really. Not just for the patient but for the loved ones.

 

[lopri]

Was the RX580 at $160 ever?
I remember seeing the RX 470 at $130, but nothing close to that for the RX 580.
I never was able to get my hands on an RX 580.

It might have been RX480. When I looked to buy one I considered them the same and wanted to pick up the lowest priced one.

 

[Leyawiin]

They're slowly started to trend downward.

 

[Zstream]

It might have been RX480. When I looked to buy one I considered them the same and wanted to pick up the lowest priced one.

It had a price of $200ish

 

[nerp]

Amazon was selling the GT1030 Gigabyte SFF card for $79. Picked one up for my OptiPlex 5050. With an i5-7600, GT 1030 and 16GB of RAM, it's not a bad little light gamer. CS:GO will run nicely, I'm sure.

Price is now back up to $109. I found the card at $109 two days ago, but under "other sellers" they actually showed Amazon itself selling for $79. I clicked on that, under the item notes it said it was expected to be in stock/ship by April 16. So I nabbed that. It's expected to arrived here on April 19, according to Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071DY2VJR/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Harry_Wild]

All the retailers of video cards just go with the wave of marking up their graphic cards across the board. Even eBay small and individual sellers have gone berserk in asking for used graphic card! That is why I will just wait till this trend dies and then some, so I get it at the best price and even better performance like it was before the crypto mining/currency craze happened.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Amazon was selling the GT1030 Gigabyte SFF card for $79. Picked one up for my OptiPlex 5050. With an i5-7600, GT 1030 and 16GB of RAM, it's not a bad little light gamer. CS:GO will run nicely, I'm sure.

Price is now back up to $109. I found the card at $109 two days ago, but under "other sellers" they actually showed Amazon itself selling for $79. I clicked on that, under the item notes it said it was expected to be in stock/ship by April 16. So I nabbed that. It's expected to arrived here on April 19, according to Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071DY2VJR/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

$109 - $79 is $30 increase! That a big 38% increase in price for the same card and technology! I think Amazon makes more money on low end cards because more people buy them then the Titans and other high tier card.

 

[nerp]

Yes. A lot of people ended up getting lower end cards just because of a lack of availability for the higher end cards. I do see the market coming to its senses. NVIDIA and EVGA both have 1080s, 1070s and 1070Tis in stock at MSRP or close to it. I'm also seeing more 1060s and 1050 and 1050Tis at normal prices. I think the whole thing has peaked and we're finally settling down.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Amazon was selling the GT1030 Gigabyte SFF card for $79. Picked one up for my OptiPlex 5050. With an i5-7600, GT 1030 and 16GB of RAM, it's not a bad little light gamer. CS:GO will run nicely, I'm sure.

Price is now back up to $109. I found the card at $109 two days ago, but under "other sellers" they actually showed Amazon itself selling for $79. I clicked on that, under the item notes it said it was expected to be in stock/ship by April 16. So I nabbed that. It's expected to arrived here on April 19, according to Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071DY2VJR/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The new price is $121.99! LOL! So total price has gone from $79 to $122 or a jump of $53 or 67% increase! Wow! Stay away unless you need it bad!

 

[Harry_Wild]

It seems that graphics cards are not at the peak price yet! Price continue to go up as evident of Amazon and Ebay pricing as well as Staples and Office Depot!

 

[Harry_Wild]

The 1030 and 1050 both went up in price across the board again. 1030 increase additional $15 while the 1050 an additional $35.

 

[whm1974]

The 1030 and 1050 both went up in price across the board again. 1030 increase additional $15 while the 1050 an additional $35.

Yikes!!!

 

[Jaskalas]

This is quite depressing for anyone looking to upgrade or replace cards. The only silver lining is we can still rely on "decent" prices for pre-built machines.

 

[DigDog]

im quite upset that mining is something you *have* to do because you're paying for that profit regardless if you do or don't.

As for the bubble, it sure will burst, but that doesn't mean that this could become a lasting business - out of the ashes of bitcoin, in the future we could have hundreds* of cryptos, crypto-portfolios (cryptfolios, you heard it here first*), and possibly non-crypto or rather, industry workloads offloaded to pools of privately owned machines (kinda like SETI@Home, but you get #blingbling for it).


*i'm such a noob, there's actually already thousands.
*i'm soooo a noob, someone's already come up with this word.

 

[whm1974]

im quite upset that mining is something you *have* to do because you're paying for that profit regardless if you do or don't.

As for the bubble, it sure will burst, but that doesn't mean that this could become a lasting business - out of the ashes of bitcoin, in the future we could have hundreds* of cryptos, crypto-portfolios (cryptfolios, you heard it here first*), and possibly non-crypto or rather, industry workloads offloaded to pools of privately owned machines (kinda like SETI@Home, but you get #blingbling for it).


*i'm such a noob, there's actually already thousands.
*i'm soooo a noob, someone's already come up with this word.

Actually the more crypto-currencies around, the overall "value" of mining drops.

 

[Aikouka]

I saw a deal over this past weekend where Newegg had a 1060 6GB dual-fan card for $300. Of course, it's sold out at this point, but that price was getting close to where I'd expect it to be (~$270-280). Some of the other cards from the same deal mailing are still in stock though. So, that's a good sign!

 

[B-Riz]

EVGA B Stock on Wednesdays. Wednesday has free or cheap shipping. GT 1030 for $70? and a 1050Ti for $180? In terms of budget-ish cards.

 

[EXCellR8]

Some RX 500 series cards still in the $400 range and higher... groan.

I hate quoting customers these prices; that might be my least favorite part about this whole mess.

 

[dlerious]

EVGA B Stock on Wednesdays. Wednesday has free or cheap shipping. GT 1030 for $70? and a 1050Ti for $180? In terms of budget-ish cards.

Which GT 1030? There are 2 versions.

 

[B-Riz]

Which GT 1030? There are 2 versions.

The passive one, the one that is ~$69.99 on the b-stock page.

 

[Grooveriding]

So is nvidia going to have a plan to deal with this mining inflation for the launch of their next GPUs? Otherwise, it's a rush on launch day to luckily score a card at MSRP, then watch them go to double/triple MSRP within a week at all the retailers. At this point I'm all for disabling mining through drivers, or whatever other shenanigans, if possible. Sell mining only cards at a massive premium and gaming GPUs at MSRP.

 

[coercitiv]

At this point I'm all for disabling mining through drivers, or whatever other shenanigans, if possible. Sell mining only cards at a massive premium and gaming GPUs at MSRP.

What happens when "gaming only" cards hit the shelves? Content creators, professionals and miners start buying "compute enabled" cards, OEMs realize there's a ton of money to be made in compute cards and divert most of their production capacity towards them. "Gaming only" cards become scarce, prices soar. Result is artificial limitation of capabilities, same pricing problem as before.