Probably because shops are asking scalper prices for them. Every single one is £200-500 above what it should be. People might be stupid enough to pay that for Nvidia cards, but they won't for AMD ones.
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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?
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It's not that.
The stupid prices were paid by miners .
They were based on roi. Return on investment .
Games do t pay stupid prices.
Eth mining is no longer Crazy profitable , and so the madness Grinding To a halt.
The prices will start to go down.
I guess they are still selling through though even at these prices, otherwise there'd be loads in stock. I still wouldn't describe stock levels as plentiful but as you say it is possible to find at least some models in stock easily enough. If the trend continues I guess we should see inventory continue to increase and prices erode. That's what I'm hoping anyway!
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Should probably just take a look at the horizon forbidden west showcase and then wait until PCs actually have something on par. Until then we pay a grand to play a steaming turd like cyberpunk 
Why not just buy using your phone (which you obviously have in hand when checking the alert)?
Its interesting how the "competitor" seem to have removed paypal as a payment option for the fe cards. Seems to be bank or credit cards only as of late. Still waiting on word back to see if these cards are also included in the 1 per customer routine.
It seems you are probably right, based on this analysis:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/n3g5s2/future_mining_profit_model_charts/
It predicts mining profitability will disappear completely sometime between October 2021 - January 2022, with a significant decline before then.
I'm quite glad tbh, given the how broken the market was in Feb 2021 when I brought an FE card, and it has only got worse since then.
I have tried mining myself in March for a few days (just out of curiosity really) on different mining pools, using a RTX 3070 (with tweaked settings).
I found the income was quite variable, and you have to mine for weeks or months before any payments are made, due to payment thresholds set by the mining pools. Sometimes no payments are made at all, due to stale shares etc, and the amounts you get only loosely follow the MH/s rate of your GPU / GPUs.
I think bitcoin mining with ASICs is more likely to be profitable than GPU mining, if you have HW with a good mining rate / power efficiently and cheap electricity costs.
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I didn't spend much time examining figures but I just added up the number of sales in a certain place that is open about their numbers, and sales are certainly slowing. For the 3090, which is currently selling for around £2500, sales have dropped from around 50 cards a day to 17. That's certainly a move in the right direction. Still a long way to go yet. Need to get that ridiculous price down.
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6700xt availablity is definitely improving.
Several retailers now (including OCUK) now have those in constant stock, they are horrendously expensive for what they are, but at least, if you were desperate, you could actually buy one.
Several retailers now (including OCUK) now have those in constant stock, they are horrendously expensive for what they are, but at least, if you were desperate, you could actually buy one.
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I know its a free market and all, but unless you literally have no card, or no card that can play your games on low at 60 fps, does your productivity as you need it no one should be desperate.
The market would correct quicker if people held off that could . So you know punting for the upcoming ti when youve already got the 3080 or 3080.... i know free market who i am to say who has a right to buy blah blah.
Id love intel to smash it out the park, or i would have loved AMD to have done something ingenious to go over and above to get cards in gamers hands. Would have really grabbed a load of customer good will. I get why they didnt...money and ultimately youd forget that goodwill when it comes to fps comparisns
The market would correct quicker if people held off that could . So you know punting for the upcoming ti when youve already got the 3080 or 3080.... i know free market who i am to say who has a right to buy blah blah.
Id love intel to smash it out the park, or i would have loved AMD to have done something ingenious to go over and above to get cards in gamers hands. Would have really grabbed a load of customer good will. I get why they didnt...money and ultimately youd forget that goodwill when it comes to fps comparisns
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Watching a few on eBay, been relisted a couple of times with £100 chopped off each time. Still £200+ more the MSRP though, getting there slowly
Watching a few on eBay, been relisted a couple of times with £100 chopped off each time. Still £200+ more the MSRP though, getting there slowly
If AMD FSR gives a fps boost to older cards like the Nvidia 900 series upwards and AMD 400 series upwards it might encourage more people to wait for better prices, fingers crossed
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im just gonna wait for realistic pricing
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Todays news wasn't particularly encouraging, Nvidia just releasing same chips but binned at higher prices than 3070 and 3080. AMD announced new gpu chips but for laptops not desktop. Potentially their new APU chips and laptop gpu chips could have gone to desktop gpu, but AMD wanted to make money in the laptop sector rather than meet demand in the desktop sector, eg no 6600xt desktop. So nothing to excite me in either Nvidia or AMD presentations for desktop gpu supply
Apparently shortage could be for a couple more years, https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...tel-boss-warns-again/ar-AAKBhDX?ocid=msedgdhp
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You say this but a large proportion of gamers have said to themselves, 'I didn't want to pay this much but its fine as I'll just put the card on Nicehash when I'm not gaming to get back some of the money i spent.'
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Yup given up, i only wanted an RTX3070 but i'm lucky as i kept my 2070S just in case supply was going to be constrained, the way things are going it'll be mid 22 before i bother changing cards again as prices are just so far beyond what i'm willing to pay atm it's insane.
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Took a call yesterday from a guy who asked if we could upgrade his PC for him with some parts he purchased online.
Not thinking too much about it I said sure... our hourly rate is such and such and put the phone down.
Anyway an hour later he turns up with his old PC and all the new parts lol.
i9, 128Gb of TridentZ, Maximus mobo, 1300w PSU and a 3090.
Needless to say I was like... er yeah no problem I'll get right on it.
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