Dragam1337:

Prices are bad, but there is nothing worth buying either - gpu's currently on the market (with the exception of the extremely overpriced titan volta) are 2 years old... if one has just a bit of smarts, you don't buy 2 year old gpu's for full price, and certainly not twice the normal full price.

Unless your GPU is more than 2 years old, unless you baught a full system / was giftet one with no dGPU inside or only a weak one, unless your GPU broke down, unless you can afford it and still want a new system, etc. The good thing is, everybody thinks it's going to get a little better with the GPUs. Not sure if and when that talk is going to become reality though 😀

fantaskarsef:

Unless your GPU is more than 2 years old, unless you baught a full system / was giftet one with no dGPU inside or only a weak one, unless your GPU broke down, unless you can afford it and still want a new system, etc. The good thing is, everybody thinks it's going to get a little better with the GPUs. Not sure if and when that talk is going to become reality though 😀

I'd say unless you don't have a gpu at all, for whatever reason, you really shouldn't buy a gpu till the new ones come... i'd say wait it out, even if you are still on kepler gpu's. Well yeah... i'm gonna preorder as soon as the new gpu's comes up for sale, before miners can inflate the prices of those gpu's - at least in denmark, they aren't allowed to increase the purchase price from the price you preorder items for. Did that with my 1080's 2 years ago aswell 🙂

Dragam1337:

Well yeah... i'm gonna preorder as soon as the new gpu's comes up for sale, before miners can inflate the prices of those gpu's - at least in denmark, they aren't allowed to increase the purchase price from the price you preorder items for. Did that with my 1080's 2 years ago aswell 🙂

And you think that miners aren't smart enough to do the same? 😀 Yeah, the only way to get a GPU these days is grab 'em while they're around and hope you can get one. Especially with new releases or GPUs at "normal" prices.

fantaskarsef:

And you think that miners aren't smart enough to do the same? 😀 Yeah, the only way to get a GPU these days is grab 'em while they're around and hope you can get one. Especially with new releases or GPUs at "normal" prices.

If you do it the moment they are released, miners can't have preordered everything. Besides, most retailers only allow you to preorder 2 gpu's.

I wonder how many years until gpu prices go back to normal.

Dragam1337:

If you do it the moment they are released, miners can't have preordered everything. Besides, most retailers only allow you to preorder 2 gpu's.

Yeah, it's true, you're only allowed 2 per person. So if a shop gets any number, say 250 GPUs to sell, it's still the same situation: do you make it to the 125 first people to order, or not? Yeah it can't happen that 10 miners buy up all the cards, but it doesn't really help if there's literally thousands of people preying on a release. I bought my GPU before the mining craze took on the ridiculous dimensions it has today, but this time around I'll be ordering day 1 if possible (well, then the next TI gets released), even though I'll have to wait for a waterblock to show itself, keeping the GPU resting at home for no apparent use than to at least have one. I feel stupid doing that, but it can't be helped, I'll certainly not wait till a year afterwards just because miners are gobbling up those GPUs like a parching man in the desert.

fantaskarsef:

Yeah, it's true, you're only allowed 2 per person. So if a shop gets any number, say 250 GPUs to sell, it's still the same situation: do you make it to the 125 first people to order, or not? Yeah it can't happen that 10 miners buy up all the cards, but it doesn't really help if there's literally thousands of people preying on a release. I bought my GPU before the mining craze took on the ridiculous dimensions it has today, but this time around I'll be ordering day 1 if possible (well, then the next TI gets released), even though I'll have to wait for a waterblock to show itself, keeping the GPU resting at home for no apparent use than to at least have one. I feel stupid doing that, but it can't be helped, I'll certainly not wait till a year afterwards just because miners are gobbling up those GPUs like a parching man in the desert.

Everyone cried on the interwebz 2 years ago that there were no 1080's available on release, and a good while after that... well, i preordered mine asap, and got mine on release. I plan on doing the same again 😉

Dragam1337:

Everyone cried on the interwebz 2 years ago that there were no 1080's available on release, and a good while after that... well, i preordered mine asap, and got mine on release. I plan on doing the same again 😉

hehe exactly my thinking! When the 1080Ti was released thankfully everybody was jumping on the AMD cards still, I was able to buy one "normally", wouldn't count on it this time though.

KissSh0t:

I wonder how many years until gpu prices go back to normal.

Most likely what is considered normal will be a bit higher priced than where it was. I do not see GPU prices coming down that far, regardless of supply.

Embra:

Most likely what is considered normal will be a bit higher priced than where it was. I do not see GPU prices coming down that far, regardless of supply.

Yep, even if all GPU mining stops, the prices will never go down to the previous "low", I'm sure of it.

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