Midrange and high-end graphics card will get more expensive
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Neo Cyrus
Graphics card prices are never returning to normal unless AMD start actually supplying some, and Ethereum crashes. Neither of those are happening in the predictable future.
The situation for Canada is one of the worst, we have few options, and one of them recently went bankrupt taking its sister company down with it. That leaves Amazon who only has stock of nVidia cards, no Vegas, and NewEgg who again don't have Vega. Both of their prices on 1070/1080 are just gradually going up. Both of which I want to point out charge severely more on their Candian sites. Example: $99 cooler with no taxes and free shipping? That'll be $141 + tax + shipping for you dirty Canadians (both Amazon and NewEgg).
Remember when I said we're never getting the full-blown high end nVidia chips ever again for "normal" prices after the first Titan was released?
Honestly it feels as if they don't give a single fuck about the gaming demographic anymore and are just pumping out anything they can at any price hoping miners buy it.
cryohellinc
Ricepudding
Honestly with supply on demand as it is it makes sense why gpus are so expensive. It sucks but from a business sense it's smart.
As for this increase this makes perfect sense if anything it might be kinda small. With inflation going up around 1-5% depending where you are in the world this looks like it's just increasing with that
Kaarme
It would help, for a while, if the memory manufacturing cartel was broken. But who knows how that could happen. I don't have much faith in the South Korean or the current US government doing anything about cartels.
k3vst3r
JonasBeckman
Wasn't Monero the current high-yield crypto currency though? Vega performing amazingly well with it although their current driver isn't quite as optimized with it's auto profile so people are using the blockchain driver to get the most out of the cards mining speed.
-Tj-
And how long do you need to run to make 1 enherium, e.g. current gpus or even my 980ti?
k3vst3r
-Tj-
Ah so little, meh pointless.
It better die soon and let gpu prices go back to normal.
k3vst3r
Yeah was far more profitable to mine around may/june of last year, then whole scene kind exploded in popularity making difficulty go sky high. Got total of 250MH/s myself with 4 RX570's churning out 29.5MH/s each. Three 290x churn out 96MH/s.
thesaiyan
If mining were still a thing then you wouldn't have any stock in any store as it happened in Q2-Q3 2017. Hardcore miners have always been there and always will, they didn't start with AMDs 500 series or NVIDIA 10 series, yet youtubers and pretty much everyone is still saying that a higher price and scarce stock is due to mining?. You need to know that mining is not exclusive to AMD (vega or polaris). There are very profitable algorithms that run waaay better on GTX 1070s and 1080 than on AMDs. There is actually a huge lot of people who mine with these cards and guess what, I can currently find them in stock in newegg.ca with no problem. Actually 1070s and 1080s are ideal cause they are cheaper than vega, consume less power, run cooler and are still very profitable with many more algorithms while AMDs are good only with ethereum, yet I dont see 1080s in Canada sold out.
High prices? The situation in Canada is definitely not one of the worst, but we canadians like to whine and think that everything over here is shitty without knowing how it is in other parts of the world. As the person from latvia said, (and myself living in canada but coming from a third world country) we canadians have it easy. I just went to newegg.com and the prices in .ca are just adjusted for the currency change. Most of the countries have to pay import fees + revenues (up to 30-40% extra) for the importer + international shipping. We pay taxes because of the economic system we have (and we pay taxes for everything!) and we pay local shipping only so I consider myself lucky to buy on the canadian market. We are a way smaller market than USA so retailers can not afford free shipping for everything, yet sometimes newegg ships for free.
I'm not saying everything is perfect here, not at all, but definitely not worth complaining.
omni_gamer
I know this is going to sound like Blasphemy around these parts, but this is exactly why my friends and I (which are (and always have been) huge PC gamers) have picked up PS4 Pros. The current state of the hardware market is fucked. Seriously who wants to drop $2,000 a year in upgrades to play a PC game that requires about 9 patches before it works properly anyway. So now for me FPS and competitive multiplayer games will always be played on the PC (most of these games can be run on a Potato anyway). Everything else - Console.
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Solfaur
TheDeeGee
vonSternberg
I started saving for a new PC, it would take 8 months, now it takes around a year, with more price increases I'll work to death before I can buy my rig
D3M1G0D
Neo Cyrus
KissSh0t
Graphics Cards are already 100 dollars more expensive.
D3M1G0D