WTH is up with video cards?

[Kanth]

Wow.

I paid $819 for my card on 5/19/2017. from newegg
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING, 11G-P4-6696-KR, 11GB GDDR5X, iCX Technology - 9 Thermal Sensors & RGB LED ...

Now it's $1399.00 that's just nutty. AND it's out of stock.

I still have another machine to build. Guess it's getting the old GTX970 until things simmer down.

[Vraciu]

6GB 1060s are way less than that.   My 1060 is about the same price it was when AH3 came out.   Why?   Not top of the line?

[popeye]

The EVGA 6GB 1060 that I paid $249 for, is now $639.

[Bizman]

I see a potential for some easy money here: Those of you having bought the latest GPU and still have a high end card of the previous generation gathering dust, why not sell the newest card to the miners for a ridiculously high price? AH will run well with a tad older card and hopefully when it doesn't you can buy a brand new card for a nice price.

[Vraciu]

The EVGA 6GB 1060 that I paid $249 for, is now $639.

Hmmm.   Amazon has them from $262 used and $499 new. 

[Drano]

V I bought the particular MSI card I did with the idea of overclocking it. I needed the excellent cooler and more HD hardware on that guy in order to do that. In short, there's 1060 cards and there's 1060 cards. The chip is just the start. Also the memory on these cards isn't all the same. Type, not size.

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[Vraciu]

Makes sense.   You get what you pay for.

[zack1234]

I bought a 1060 6gb for £289 couple of months ago? Price in the UK not changed.

[Bizman]

I bought a 1060 6gb for £289 couple of months ago? Price in the UK not changed.

Looks the same here in Finland: One of our leading online retailers has 1060 for ~€300, 1080 for ~€500-600 and 1080Ti for ~€880, roughly 130 different models (including AMD) available in a week or less.

[Randy1]

If drug money is being laundered then this may be with us for a long time.

[Skuzzy]

It is pretty well established it is being used to launder money.  However, if banks stopped honoring it, world wide, then it would eventually die.  I know the likelihood of that is pretty slim.

[wrench]

Wow the GTX 1060 3GB I bought in 2016 for $199 is now $369.
The GTX 1070 8GB I bought in 2017 for $349 is now $627.
This is insanity!

[Skuzzy]

Look at system RAM prices, if you want more insanity.

I feel for anyone wanting to build a computer right now.  The prices are getting stupid.

The problem is, in the past when prices got like this the market self-leveled as sales would drop and drive prices back down.  The cryptocrazies are still buying everything so the prices are still going up.

[AAIK]

The price changes seem to be for US retailers only, the prices havent changes on the usualy european retail sites I use.

[Bizman]

Translation:

• I've never mined any crypto currency but I know one who does. Gotta find out how it's been done.
• A guy at our office talks about mining every day. He always says "Gotta go do some mining" and then he.. then he...
• Oh hell no! It may well be that he's just taking a dump, calling it mining. Oh crap! Now I get why he stared at me so weirdly when I asked if I could come and watch someday.