GPU price war

[AORUS]

It's now come to a GPU price war shame, I have seen from just one month how prices have gone though the roof! And now seems it will only go higher until end of 2022 I have been checking mostly all the Computers online stores like Overclockers UK hoping to get the chance to find the card I want. I wanted the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra but everywhere have sold out

Some of these prices have gone crazy
PNY GeForce RTX 3090 EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan, was £2,299 but today it's now £2,969.99
PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming EPIC-X RGB now £3,095.99
EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra was £2,299 but now £2,899

 

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I know, its anti-bots been more aggressive with greed and we aren't fully out of the pandemic

 

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Wait till you see the prices when China invades Taiwan

What!, Taiwan have always been a part of China do the history, anyway this disagreement have to do with Taiwan history. Onda is a Chinese brand that most manufactures Nvidia and AMD based graphics card for only low-end and mid-range gaming PCs. Also the giant TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)

It's frustrating. My lad wants his first PC this year for Christmas and we've had to settle on getting him a gaming setup (desk chair and monitor etc) with the promise we'll hook up the Xbox to it, whilst we wait for it all to calm down.
Not a bad compromise for a soon to be 10 year old it has to be said, but no way am I paying those prices to build a gaming pc that will last him.

This is main problem we face now GPU price wars for greed & making profits within the pandemic time shame on them

 

[AORUS]

Sorry, are you saying £2299 was a reasonable price but £2969 is crazy? I remembering arguing with similar posts in recent history that ~£800 was crazy pricing.
The PC hardware enthusiast community has been a frog slowly boiling alive these past 5 years. My point remains the same; don't blame the company's, blame the consumer.

No I was only using the prices as example, I know the RTX 3090 was somewhere in the prices range of £1600. But I missed my chance of getting one in 2020 and when I was look for one this year the prices went up to £2,299 to £2,969.99 in quick time and now £3,000 way too much money on just one card PNY not the graphic card I want and don't like the company or it's name I was looking for EVEA/AORUS brand

I build my rig every five years but was put back because money & pandemic

 

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I don't make many posts but came across this article yesterday which may explain in some part why the already overpriced cards have been pushed even further in price and stock is running even lower than normal, how much truth in the article well that's for you to decide

As people lost there life's & jobs during the pandemic, But when the world governments slowed the market the business world took much evil turn with there partners to cover there profit year during pandemic, Nvidia & AMD known this would happen and by slowing down the GPU market was hoping to rise the prices too on goods and by doing so have proved to themselves the consumer but not all consumers is willing to pay the price up to £3,500 for GPU today and it will still get worst.

Thanks for the link

 

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lol tin foil hat brigade in full force i see. there is a silicone / chip shortage. AMD and nvidia didn't slow anything down. Do you think MS and Sony would just sit back and accept that?

I would understand if GPU chip was hand made but they not, all chips is made by computers today so I don't see why there is a shortage in the first place! or it could be that they want the prices on GPU to go higher to get rid of the last stock so when Nvidia brings out the 40series cards it would be near same price £2,099/£1,899 mark and blame it on the pandemic for the high price hike.

Building PC on a budget is coming to end.

 

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Yeah and all the raw materials just get made by computers out of thin air. All the computers themselves just appear by magic out of nowhere and so do the robots. Where do you work? Because anyone who knew how manufacturing works would know it takes a lot more than computers.

If we are running out of Earth raw materials like Silicon as Silicon is used in many products also GPU then the industry needs to change what we use. Nvidia talks about the green program in 2012 The metals, components, and plastics found in this computer hardware can often be reused in future products oh yes the future big talk story just like cutting carbon from the air oh yes we start in 2030/40 on car diesel. Foster Fuels in 2050 yes that's the big future ideal but we can blame the setback year on the pandemic we begin to start it after that year.

And who fault was it to use robots in manufacturing in the first place father Christmas? Now days nearly everything is made with computer robots and a use of a computers to program them with magic elves.

 

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No it's not conspiracy act

The main problem is Computer business are dumping more and not enough is done on recycle those metals to make new PC components, as we keep taken more & more raw materials like Silicon from the Earth mining and in return computers from western Europe and the US half million computers arrive in Lagos every month in large landfills and children have too pick through the toxic dumps to earn the cash for a living and the EU will tighter there recycling E-waste rules by 2030 toxic-free and fully circular economy by 2050 In the mean time we continue dumping electronic and electrical waste. United States generated 6.92 million tons of waste only 15% was recycled properly, the US dumping grounds is Latin America, Asia, Africa, India 3 million tons of waste is dumped annually it's is likely to be over 100 million tonnes by 2050 just in time when the EU rules change. The world generated 44.7 million metric tonnes of e-waste.

The chip manufacturing said We have surging demand and limited supply though. They're selling absolutely everything they can build right now. GPUs and other chips gobbled up by the cryptocurrency that has taken world markets by storm but because of the US & China trade war continues the tensions at play in technology world Chinese tech companies hoarded chips and chip-making equipment if sanctions tighten, China exports to US will drop further. China Taiwan’s TSMC plans to spend $28B semiconductor manufacturing facility taken two years or more to construct it and Intel recently said it will spend $20 billion to build two new fabs in Arizona but this chip shortage to last through 2022 and into 2023 news.

 

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Where do you work? Because anyone who knew how manufacturing works would know it takes a lot more than computers.

Roughly 4,000 units per day on graphic cards is built so what happen to all the two year stock list!

I'm not going around like AORUS stating there's some big conspiracy going on.

I am not starting any conspiracy just opinions and what media prints

I think he and ljt are smoking the same thing...Both not living in the real world and expecting the world to bend over backward for them because they feel they are entitled to their wants and needs at the price they think is fair for a product. Guessing some need to get out in the real world and start paying bills and not asking their parents for everything and understanding what things really cost.

I worked for my living and paid my taxes now I retried, some people need to study more about how the real world works and people in it. Not sit in an office

 

[AORUS]

I like to know where all the two years of GPU stock have gone before the pandemic because they build roughly 4,000 units per day on graphic cards!