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.

[iceman1980]

Blame crypto-miners.

[Electric Cupcake]

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

The rare earths must flow.

[Greevar]

It's all of the above. Chip shortages, bitcoin miners, and scalpers make it impossible to find GPU's or they're double to triple the MSRP.

[Scoobert Doobert]

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

[iceman1980]

Publicado originalmente por 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.

[Mad Scientist]

Publicado originalmente por Crosseyed Mie:

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

The rare earths must flow.

That had nothing to do with it.

The pandemic happened, factories shut down, and they're still hardly fired up. More countries are wanting and actively planning to open their own component factories to avoid a shortage.

Keep your misinformed politics out of what's really going on. What one president did, does not affect the entire planets factories, that's absurd to even suggest such nonsense.

[iceman1980]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. Gentlebot:

Publicado originalmente por Crosseyed Mie:

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

The rare earths must flow.

That had nothing to do with it.

The pandemic happened, factories shut down, and they're still hardly fired up. More countries are wanting and actively planning to open their own component factories to avoid a shortage.

Keep your misinformed politics out of what's really going on. What one president did, does not affect the entire planets factories, that's absurd to even suggest such nonsense.

It may have affected things but the amount it affected is probably inconsequential.

[Mad Scientist]

Publicado originalmente por Product ∏:

Publicado originalmente por Mr. Gentlebot:

That had nothing to do with it.

The pandemic happened, factories shut down, and they're still hardly fired up. More countries are wanting and actively planning to open their own component factories to avoid a shortage.

Keep your misinformed politics out of what's really going on. What one president did, does not affect the entire planets factories, that's absurd to even suggest such nonsense.

It may have affected things but the amount it affected is probably inconsequential.

Inconsequential - if at all - emphasizes that it doesn't affects the world's production and supply rate, let alone immense price changes.

Seen some light scalping and super scalping as well. Little bit of market manipulation by some holding onto high amounts of stock too, slight site VS site price wars keeping some parts higher.

Clearly has nothing to do with trump, lol.

[iceman1980]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. Gentlebot:

Publicado originalmente por Product ∏:

It may have affected things but the amount it affected is probably inconsequential.

Inconsequential - if at all - emphasizes that it doesn't affects the world's production and supply rate, let alone immense price changes.

Seen some light scalping and super scalping as well. Little bit of market manipulation by some holding onto high amounts of stock too, slight site VS site price wars keeping some parts higher.

Clearly has nothing to do with trump, lol.

No but first and fore most is more likely the chip manufacturing shortage then the crypto-currency craze just made it worse.

[ugafan]

This could last for YEARS unless GPU manufacturers and retailers actually do something about it and set up queue systems of one card per household to purchase GPUs.

[SimicEngineer]

Apart from anything policy-related or COVID-related, a bunch of stuff has happened to mess with electronics production. Multiple semiconductor companies have had fires that knocked out some of their production, there's a major drought in Taiwan (large-scale electronics manufacturing, and especially semiconductor manufacturing, uses a huge amount of water), and there have been delays in the introduction of 450 mm production lines, which allegedly led to unexpected demand for smaller wafers as chip manufacturers have tried to increase output with their existing technology.

Basically, it seems like a bunch of things that individually would all be minor disruptions effectively all hit at the same time, before supply chains had even fully recovered from COVID.

[Fake]

Publicado originalmente por ugafan:

This could last for YEARS unless GPU manufacturers and retailers actually do something about it and set up queue systems of one card per household to purchase GPUs.

EVGA has a queue system. That was how I was able to buy me RTX 3070. Took me 3months of waiting before I got the email.

[raincloud40]

There are alot of factors, but from everything thats going on I'd blame scalpers the most. Both new cards and decent pre-builts that hit store shelves are bought up and resold extremely fast usually at 2x to 3x MSRP depending on what it is.

I've even already heard of a few horror stories of store managers scalping products before they could hit their own store's shelves.

[Pocahawtness]

It's a combination of things. Miners are perhaps the biggest problem, they are buying all the cards right now, but they are not the only problem. Shortages are anticipated to be ongoing through 2022. If you want a new graphics card you better set your sights on 2023.

[plat]

Actually? I checked my local Micro Center--there are about 16 pre-builts containing an rtx 3070, all of which are selling for over 2000 USD. There are about 6 or so containing AMD 6700XT. You have to buy these in-store.

I guess it's a matter of pouncing at the right time, whenever that is.