Currently NO GPU`s available

[SondreNorway93]

Hello,

Here in my country "Norway" there is currently "more or less" no cards available right now.

Not from 1000, 2000 or 3000 series same with the AMD cards.

 

Before the 3000 series came availability wasn't a problem, at least to my knowledge here.

 

What is going on`?, is it simply that they dont have enough resources to make chips because of popularity?

Is the Bitcoin trend making the demand for miners really high again?

Are NVIDIA using this and controlling the marked as much as possible to able to sell the GPUs at a higher price?

 

It just feels so weird that i cant buy ANY new GPUs unless there is some shit non gaming GPU.

 

Even the used marked is really fucked right now, 4 years old 1080 TI`s selling for 500-600 buck, same with 2070.

 

At least what i make of this is that There should be more competition in the GPU marked when you more or less can sell all your goods even before it hits the shelfs.

And if you sell your used GPU you can make money on it even if you had it several years.

 

If anyone have some good information about the matter i would love to hear it.

 

Just some thoughts

[ProjectBox153]

This has been going on for a long while now everywhere. It's a combination of mining (look at the price of cryptocurrencies), supply shortages (COVID, others), and demand. 

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3 minutes ago, SondreNorway93 said:

What is going on`?

You know, the usual things like a pandemic. Other than that there is huge demand, there are supply chain issues all over the place, and miners and scalpers get their hands on most of the stock quickly.

3 minutes ago, SondreNorway93 said:

At least what i make of this is that There should be more competition in the GPU marked when you more or less can sell all your goods even before it hits the shelfs.

And if you sell your used GPU you can make money on it even if you had it several years.

You are classic seeing supply and demand in action here. Demand is through the roof and supply is through the ground. The stock that is available will be sold at inflated prices. In the second hand market exactly the same is happening.

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11 hours ago, Not Wills said:

Prices in england for cpus, gpus and cases are stupidly dumb.

Tell me about it, just built a Ryzen 5 system for around £500 and am having to make do with a GT640 currently, because i'm not prepared to shell out £200+ on a 3 or 4 year old card that more than likely doesn't do video decoding! Its just crazy stupid currently.