What? High End Graphics Cards Are Out of Stock?

[plat1098]

"The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear. You'd go to your local electronics store, pick one up off the shelf, and pay an amount right around the manufacturer's suggested retail price.

But the rise of cryptocurrency mining has created an unprecedented global shortage of graphics cards. If you go to your local retailer, you're likely to find bare shelves where the beefier cards used to be. Instead of trading at a discount, used cards routinely sell for well above MSRP on sites like eBay and Craigslist.

And it's driving PC gamers—who used to be the primary market for these cards—crazy.

"Cryptocurrency can't crash soon enough," one gamer wrote on the PCGaming subreddit a few days ago. Gamers thinking about building a new gaming machine are being forced to put those plans on hold until the market settles down. Others, who bought high-end graphics cards a few months ago, are wondering if they should sell at a big profit.

Jared Walton of PC Gamer sums up the situation: "It's a terrible time to buy a graphics card." "

Anyone experienced this phenomenon in his/her nabe lately?

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

Every store is sold out. If you want to build a gaming rig you have basically zero supply. I really hope none of my gaming rigs has a card failure.

Apparently all of these mining fools can't do math. Even the $10,000 rigs LOSE $900 a month after power factoring, not including depreciation of the hardware itself. Unless you are running ASIC systems you'll lose money.. So all of this amounts to just a big 'fad' that will implode on all of these people eventually. When that happens, imagine the resale tank on those cards! You'll be able to get 1080Ti's for half price as people panic to recover the money.

 

[TheJokerz]

Every store is sold out. If you want to build a gaming rig you have basically zero supply. I really hope none of my gaming rigs has a card failure.

Apparently all of these mining fools can't do math. Even the $10,000 rigs LOSE $900 a month after power factoring, not including depreciation of the hardware itself. Unless you are running ASIC systems you'll lose money.. So all of this amounts to just a big 'fad' that will implode on all of these people eventually. When that happens, imagine the resale tank on those cards! You'll be able to get 1080Ti's for half price as people panic to recover the money.

Can not wait for the day those cards sell for next to nothing!!