raven_

Well, this blows. But why is this suddenly becoming a thing? Because of the price of Bitcoins going up? And why are people buying these cards in particular? I get that the cards are powerful, but aren't there cards out there designed for this sort of thing? (heard the abbreviation ASIC somewhere while looking this up)

I went to go check on some of the GPU prices after not checking for a while, and was surprised to say the least. A GTX 1070 costs around 600-700 now. And the one which I was originally going to buy 6-7 months ago was ~400. Here is the card I was originally going to buy 6-7 months ago - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814487265 It's no longer in stock, and neither are any of the other cheaper and good quality cards. Here is the price of an almost identicle card - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=9SIABVR5VS0144 Why have the prices jumped up? Will they drop eventually? I want to upgrade my PC, but there is no way I'm dropping this much on this card.