If you’re looking to build a PC today, chances are you’re in trouble. Cryptocurrency mining has driven the prices of GPUs from “inflated” to “utterly absurd.”
In fact, prices are so high, they’re actually higher, in some cases, than we’d expect a person to spend on an entire computer. It’s one thing to say people shouldn’t buy in when a GPU (See on Amazon) is running $50 to $100 over MSRP (and we’ve railed against these kinds of price wars before), but the pricing here is nuts. AMD’s Vega 56 and 64 are running at $800 to $1,500 — and that’s if you can even find a card.
Meanwhile, GTX 1060s are floating around $390, the cheapest GTX 1070 or 1080 ships in an eGPU chassis for $700 (oddly, both the 1070 and 1080 are $700) and a GTX 1080 standalone will cost you an easy $750 to $1,200. Yes, in some cases, GTX 1080s are actually cheaper than GTX 1070s, which would be a weird and wonderful result for people looking to score a video card if either of these GPUs were at anything approaching its proper MSRP.
Read full story here: GPU Prices Skyrocket, Breaking The Entire DIY PC Market – ExtremeTech
