GPU and Prebuilts are super pricey or out of stock.

[Scoobert Doobert]

Why, why are all the prebuilts and gpu's out of stock, is it scalpers? bitcoin miners? Someone please tell me I honestly can't find a straight answer.

[Scoobert Doobert]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Product ∏:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย mashpotatosauce:

I once saw a guy with like 40 gpu's to mine bitcoin...

Try the one who bought 78 RTX 3080's he's mining Etherium. I truly hate crypto-currencies, they are not used for anything more than illegal transactions most of the time. The decentralised nature makes tracking down the owners of the wallets themselves almost impossible, often resulting in law-enforcement using malware against criminal machines to bug them.

He sounds stupid selfish for buying that many. It's really hurting the market, I'm just to upgrade from my 1050, like jeez.

[tonimark]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Product ∏:

Blame crypto-miners.

they buy prebuilds too??! oh this is serious!

[Supafly]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย tonimark:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Product ∏:

Blame crypto-miners.

they buy prebuilds too??! oh this is serious!

Sure some would but generally a pre-built is the easiest way to get a GPU right now. Companies will use GPUs in their own systems before selling them separately

[tonimark]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Monkey:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย tonimark:

they buy prebuilds too??! oh this is serious!

Sure some would but generally a pre-built is the easiest way to get a GPU right now. Companies will use GPUs in their own systems before selling them separately

i hate monopoly , oligopoly

[Buck]

There's some good news on the horizon -
Firstly, NVIDIA has reportedly adding hardware limitations to cryptomining in the latest core revisions. this should make the 3000 series much less attractive to miners, as they can't know what revision is in the boxes.

There is also another company releasing a mining card which is said to be massively more powerful at mining then GPU's. that should also alleviate the demand on gaming GPU's.
At the same time, Bram Cohen (the guy who invented bittorrent) is releasing a new storage based cryptocurrency which is already causing shortages in SSD and HDD stocks.

[Nano]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Crosseyed Mie:

And the aftershocks of Trump's belligerent tantrums and trade wars, I imagine.

The rare earths must flow.

Rent free.

[Zig6000]

If you are in the UK have a look at the AWD-IT website. They currently have some RX 6700XT's in stock. Although the prices are a bit inflated. It's where i got my 6700xt from last week just need to sell my vega 64 now to make some coin back.

Anyway that site seems to get AMD cards in pretty regular and sometimes nvidia as well. Might be worth a look.

[CravenCoyote]

It's due to chip shortages, of which COVID19 is the primary cause of.

Yes, crypto miners do buy up stock as and when they can but the card has to already be for sale before they can actually buy one. You can still get the cards if you're just as quick

[Scoobert Doobert]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Buck:

There's some good news on the horizon -
Firstly, NVIDIA has reportedly adding hardware limitations to cryptomining in the latest core revisions. this should make the 3000 series much less attractive to miners, as they can't know what revision is in the boxes.

There is also another company releasing a mining card which is said to be massively more powerful at mining then GPU's. that should also alleviate the demand on gaming GPU's.
At the same time, Bram Cohen (the guy who invented bittorrent) is releasing a new storage based cryptocurrency which is already causing shortages in SSD and HDD stocks.

What are they gonna turn into crypto currency next?! Imagine seeing the GPU problem and going "lets make this worse"

[-=SOF=-WID99]

get used to it .. everything is going out of stock due to the covid 19 pandemic and shipping delays

i work for a golf car company .. heck we cant even get hubcaps (yep made in china ) , or electric parts ..batteries are going up in price , and anything that needs an IC chip for the cars went up ..even cables for the GPS systems are impossible to find as well as the GPS devices

heck we used to sell used cars for 2 grand .. we are now getting close to 4 or even 6 if the car is in good shape and runs

car and truck dealers are also not able to get parts for used cars and trucks on time ..so its not just PC's and GPU's

and no one is mining crypto currency on a golf car or an automobile engine