Nvidia asks video card retailers to give gamers priority over miners
Retailers have begun selling GeForce GTX graphics cards in limited quantities per order. Nvidia confirmed this due to an initiative of the GPU manufacturer in an attempt to limit sales to miners. What effect this has on for prices and availability, remains to be seen.
The new restriction will be a maximum of two graphics cards (of the same model) per order. Whether or not this will have an effect will remain to be seen. As you could place multiple orders, or buy elsewhere.
Nvidia: " For NVIDIA, gamers come first. All activities related to our GeForce product line are targeted at our main audience. To ensure that GeForce gamers continue to have good GeForce graphics card availability in the current situation, we recommend that our trading partners make the appropriate arrangements to meet gamers' needs as usual."
Nvidia emphasizes that retailers can, but do not have to, follow this " recommendation ", reports computerbase. The manufacturer would never intervene in the freedom and independence of trade. (which is a legal thing). Some stores have now limited the number of video cards per customer. Caseking, Alternate, MIX, and Mindfactory only provide two video cards of the same type per customer. Incidentally, the stores have the same policy regarding AMD Radeon cards.
Massive purchase of video cards for mincing cryptocurrencies are the cause, as a result, the prices of video cards have risen considerably, according to an inventory last week.
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It could be nvidia is honest about this, but in a cynical way. Maybe they're afraid that the stockpiling of GPUs by miners might result in the used hardware market hurting their future sales, once the miners go and offload a crapload of GPUs for very low prices.
Probably not, but the thought just crossed my mind.
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The situation is dramatic really. The biggest store here has 0 (ZERO) 1070s available, 1 (ONE) crappy Gigabyte 1080 which costs more than a 1080Ti did at launch, 3 crappy Palit 1080Tis which cost over 1000 euros (and will probably be gone in the next hour)... even 1060 prices are insane, but at least there is some availability there.
The worst part is, I don't see this getting better anytime soon. It really, REALLY sucks to be in need of a gaming GPU now.

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Good idea to limit sales to miners, then again it's neither forceable onto them, nor would it solve the problems. Seperate mining cards from gaming card lines, that might help, but requires more R&D and the OK from AMD/Nvidia to do so.
Like it read's from Nvidia, it is a cynical PR stunt. Shameful.
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The situation is dramatic really. The biggest store here has 0 (ZERO) 1070s available, 1 (ONE) crappy Gigabyte 1080 which costs more than a 1080Ti did at launch, 3 crappy Palit 1080Tis which cost over 1000 euros (and will probably be gone in the next hour)... even 1060 prices are insane, but at least there is some availability there.
The worst part is, I don't see this getting better anytime soon. It really, REALLY sucks to be in need of a gaming GPU now.

Why buy almost 1 year old hardware :p
Allways buy graphicscards day 1

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