Is it just me, or is the 1050Ti only GPU available?

[whm1974]

Looking the market for GPUs it sure seem that 1050Ti and maybe the 560 based cards are the only ones available for purchase I can easily find in stock. All others are like playing the lottery if you can them for sale anywhere at a reasonable price.

Well hopefully by the time I build a new rig this damn mining bubble will burst.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Well you could always buy a Titan Xp Star Wars card for $1138 directly from Nvidia. Cheaper than buying a 1080 Ti right now. Imagine where we're at now, where you can actually recommend Titan cards for their price to performance.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...-wars-jedi-order-titan-xp-collectors-edition/

 

[EXCellR8]

there's never been a worse time to buy a gaming video card.

 

[happy medium]

Its not just you.........its reality, and it sucks.

 

[Qwertilot]

Things will get interesting in a few months when NV get round to launching whatever the gaming version of volta is called.

Especially if they do that trick with holding the FE editions at a given price again. Those might turn very, very desirable.

 

[pj-]

Haha, insane.

Sucks for everyone but it makes me feel better about the Titan X I bought almost 18 months ago. I could sell it on ebay right now for near retail!

 

[whm1974]

While the 1050Ti is just fine for 1080p@60fps, I play at 1600p and with newer AAA games, my 970 won't cut it at that resolution.

 

[whm1974]

JHC!!! I just checked pcpartpicker.com and even the 1050ti is out of stock or overpriced. I haven't checked for the Rx560 yet, but if this continues PC gaming may end up getting killed off due to this damn bubble....

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

At the current prices of cards it'd be better to buy a new PC with the card from a builder...though I bet they'll run out of stock soon unless they have their own pipelines?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Best I could find at local Microcenter was a single 1070 for $450, and a bunch of RX580s @ $300.

Of course, the RX580 is about the same speed as the GTX 970 I have, pushing 3 years old. Which I paid $330 for.

So no reason to upgrade. F*** miners.

 

[whm1974]

Best I could find at local Microcenter was a single 1070 for $450, and a bunch of RX580s @ $300.

Of course, the RX580 is about the same speed as the GTX 970 I have, pushing 3 years old. Which I paid $330 for.

So no reason to upgrade. F*** miners.

There is no way in Hell I'm going to pay $450 or more for a video card even if I had the money. I'm thinking that we should Tar and Feather miners for causing this mess, maybe that would burst the Bubble if we did this.

 

[VirtualLarry]

There is no way in Hell I'm going to pay $450 or more for a video card even if I had the money. I'm thinking that we should Tar and Feather miners for causing this mess, maybe that would burst the Bubble if we did this.

Advocating violence against someone with differing viewpoints, is a little... too strongly worded, don't you think.

For example, there are many pro- and semi-pro PC users out there, for which time is money, and they are willing to pay big $$$ for "pro" parts. If anything, the GPU market is simply normalizing to how thing already are in many other segments of this industry.

You don't advocate tarring and feathering database admins, do you? For the fact that 24-core CPUs are so expensive?

Anyways, please tone down the rhetoric, a bit, OK?

 

[whm1974]

Advocating violence against someone with differing viewpoints, is a little... too strongly worded, don't you think.

For example, there are many pro- and semi-pro PC users out there, for which time is money, and they are willing to pay big $$$ for "pro" parts. If anything, the GPU market is simply normalizing to how thing already are in many other segments of this industry.

You don't advocate tarring and feathering database admins, do you? For the fact that 24-core CPUs are so expensive?

Anyways, please tone down the rhetoric, a bit, OK?

Sorry I got carried away.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Anyways, I think GPU vendors are going to wise-up to mining demands. I was watching a YT video, about a "mining" card from Gigabyte, it was like $30 cheaper (in South Africa), and had only a short warranty.

I think that the GPU vendors will start to refuse warranty service for GPUs used in mining, preferring to sell mining-specific cards to miners, and I think that they will start to sell direct over the internet, to cut out the price-gouging third-party vendors, that seem to buy up Newegg's stock within minutes, only to list it for sale minutes later for 2x-3x the price.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

For example, there are many pro- and semi-pro PC users out there, for which time is money, and they are willing to pay big $$$ for "pro" parts. If anything, the GPU market is simply normalizing to how thing already are in many other segments of this industry.

You don't advocate tarring and feathering database admins, do you? For the fact that 24-core CPUs are so expensive?

Anyways, please tone down the rhetoric, a bit, OK?

No DBA would run a SQL cluster on a bunch of "prosumer" gaming rigs. Pro peeps have Titan, Tesla, and Quadro cards to do GPGPU with.

These aren't "pro" parts, and as a result of this mining nuthouse (and a refusal to make more cards), there's been zero improvements in available price/performance for fully three calendar years. Meanwhile, new games come out. That sucks.

 

[whm1974]

Anyways, I think GPU vendors are going to wise-up to mining demands. I was watching a YT video, about a "mining" card from Gigabyte, it was like $30 cheaper (in South Africa), and had only a short warranty.

I think that the GPU vendors will start to refuse warranty service for GPUs used in mining, preferring to sell mining-specific cards to miners, and I think that they will start to sell direct over the internet, to cut out the price-gouging third-party vendors, that seem to buy up Newegg's stock within minutes, only to list it for sale minutes later for 2x-3x the price.

Well I hope they start doing that really soon. I'm just glad I replaced my GTX 760 with my 970 a few years ago and with the games I have, I should be fine for the next few years.