Graphic Card Prices Go Sky High Due To Mining

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Mining Is going Sky high and so are the Graphic Card Prices, the Requirement for many Graphic cards are Increasing every day, this has a major effect on the prices and stock of the Graphic Cards, Whats more Interesting Is that the Companies are working to release their Mining Cards, so overall this means they are also bringing back the Cards for the normal day Gaming User.

Popular Mining Cards.
R9 390
R9 390x
RX 480
GTX 1060
RX 570
RX 470
RX 580

Lets talk about the current situation, at the moment there is no RX 480 Graphic Card available to Its original release price, the Release price of RX 480 was around $250 for 8gb and $200 for 4gb and at the moment the MSI RX 480 Costs $500+ on Newegg and Amazon, the most annoying part Is that they are completely out of stock, there is almost no RX 480 available on Amazon at a suitable price, and some are more than $600

The R9 390’s are out of stock from the past 3 months, because the 390 are really good for mining but they require too much power comparing the 480s, some 390s are $500+ on Amazon, but even finding $500+ card is impossible, since they are out of stock

Meanwhile the 1060 Original release price was around $280 for 6gb variant and $200 for 3gb variant, but wait what?, currently the 1060 GIGABYTE XTREME Edition costs $500, and G1 gaming costs $400+, apart from GIGABYTE the Asus cards weren’t far, they also cost $410+, and many other aftermarket 1060’s are out of stock.

so that does make sense, that how rapidly the card prices are going sky high, we can save a bit more and get at least GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 Instead of RX 480/GTX 1060, because spending $500 and $400 on 1060 and RX 480 Is really going to be stupid, meanwhile the R9 390s are outdated, 480 and 1060 seems to be better choice though mining won’t let you buy that.

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SilkyPosted:

Well I picked the wrong time to try upgrade my PC.

Dr_ArkansasPosted:

kerrry Kinda confused on what mining is, gonna have to research it.


literally... hundreds of mini computers running a program that finds "bitcoins"... no longer a profitable market unless you got on it from the beginning,

k3rryPosted:

Kinda confused on what mining is, gonna have to research it.

ZydrinPosted:

This happens every couple months tbh.

MaggardoPosted:

Man, is this why GPUs have became so expensive. I've been looking at GPUs to buy for my desktop, and all of the prices seemed completely outrages.

junoPosted:

Well mining just became more of a hassle, also just building you own pc will kill your money.

ExoticWolfsPosted:

I feel bad for all that are looking into building a gaming PC or just wanting to upgrade gpu. At this point a prebuilt > building your own (depending on the gpu you are wanting). This has been going on for some time now due to ethereum mining. Another card that has a huge price spike, that isn't mentioned, is the gtx 1070. Right now you can get some 1080's for cheaper than the 1070's, of course, all depending on the make.

DecyPosted:

Was wondering why alot of these gpu's where out of stock as i was going to upgrade my PC.. seems i may aswell just buy an entire new PC.

EchoPosted:

Fustrating especially for people that want them for gaming etc. Miner's are going to mine though