Top end GPU Prices Rising

[Adams120]

Hello Guys!

 

Recently I noticed thatthe price of my desired GPU for an upcoming build become simply too high, a GTX 1060 6Gb. A couple weeks ago it was just 240€ and now its around 600€ (WTF!!!).

this is also the case with 1070, 1080/ti and the AMD RX500 series. WHAT THE FRICKING HELL?!?!? Almost 200% prices? 

As it turns out it's because of cryptominers (again) who buy extensive amounts (about 6 cards for ONE build), so they can make profit. This trend became so big, that production capabilities were overpassed, and stocks, emptied, so producers had to raise the prices. BUT TO FRICKING INSANE LEVELS. What can we do, who don't want mid-advanced cards? I personally choose GTX1060 6gb because it's one of the few 'cheapo' GPUs with official VR support (for a possible future upgrade)

[ellishughes12]

Nothing you can do unfortunalety, it's either settle for older cards that are still reasonable, mostly nividia cards such as th 970,980's or pay the premium for the newer cards.

Until the difficulty of ethereum etc increases drastically or they implement the pos I'm guessing the straining demand for high end gpu's especially AMD will remain .