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Nik Balor
By Nik Balor
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What does Cryptocurrency mining have to do with the increase in GPUs prices ?!

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Because many people mine on the high end gpus, because these are easier to sell than asics.

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6 minutes ago, Nik Balor said:

What does Cryptocurrency mining have to do with the increase in GPUs prices ?!

Supply and demand.

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People want GPUs and graphics card vendors like asus and msi raise their prices because they have a good chance to make money. 

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2 hours ago, Rasbir Singh said:

People want GPUs and graphics card vendors like asus and msi raise their prices because they have a good chance to make money. 

It's not so much the manufacturers that raise the price. It's the retailers that charge above MSRP because the number they have in stock is low and the demand is high, so they don't have to worry about being able to sell them.  The manufacturers don't really make more on it as a result.

Sometimes I get builder's itch

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