How can you say ram is at rrp, it's still double what it was 12-18 months ago, or is it ok for ram to increase its rrp but gpus have to stay the same price as release day?
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GPU prices go boom
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Soldato
Or 'why is water wet'
or 'moist'
awww looky here. spot the 'big fellas' - that's cute. congratulations chaps. congratulations.
Soldato
ram has always been a volatile product (no pun intended) so upsurges and subsequent dips in pricing is nothing new. if the chip fabrication plants were to increase output then prices will come down sharply for ram. I'm not so sure that would be the case with gpu's if the manufacturers were able to ramp production. the manufacturers know there is a section of the market that will pay virtually anything for a gpu so this is will keep the market unnaturally inflated.
my choice of wording on the ram thing may not have been perfect but I think you know what i am talking about in relation to gpus?
Associate
Haha nice awkward pause during payment methods before adding bitcoin shamefully
Soldato
My destiny is clear, I need to donate to Corsair GPU rescure to be able to save all of these graphics cards, it's going to take a lot of moneh, I see they allow Bitcoint donations, I need to bulk buy a large amount of GPU's to mine untill I've rescued them all!
Caporegime
Yeah. LolHaha nice awkward pause during payment methods before adding bitcoin shamefully
Going into the mining sub forum over the last week has made me giggle like a little school girl, the amount of people abandoning the sinking ship hahahahahaha Hope the ones that bought 5+ GPUs have a hard time making their money back 
Going to be interesting to see what retailers do now, I think they are going to have to drop prices big time now if they want to move gpus etc. especially the prices on AMD's cards! Gamers aren't going to be paying over the odds for "old" tech or I would at least like to think they won't be.......
Likewise, don't even think I will bother buying a £300 gpu now, max for me will probably be £150/200 but I am also not going to do a side step, whatever my next GPU is, it will need to be at least as powerful as a 1070, if needs be, I can wait especially when games like far cry 5 get optimised extremely well and still run very well on older cards
The above and that I don't game anywhere as much lately and tbh, I've been very content with dropping settings in demanding games i.e. poorly optimised games on my 290 where by IQ is hardly any different but the FPS gain is massive, that and playing games on an OLED, gaming is just sublime, the games feel and look so much better thanks to the refresh rate and more so OLED's super fast pixel response time, in some ways, it is almost like I upgraded my GPU or/and have a free/g sync display!
Only reason I need to pick up a new GPU is for full HDR support, hopefully by that time, PC gaming HDR will be much better.
Hope the ones that bought 5+ GPUs have a hard time making their money back Going to be interesting to see what retailers do now, I think they are going to have to drop prices big time now if they want to move gpus etc. especially the prices on AMD's cards! Gamers aren't going to be paying over the odds for "old" tech or I would at least like to think they won't be.......Likewise, don't even think I will bother buying a £300 gpu now, max for me will probably be £150/200 but I am also not going to do a side step, whatever my next GPU is, it will need to be at least as powerful as a 1070, if needs be, I can wait especially when games like far cry 5 get optimised extremely well and still run very well on older cards
The above and that I don't game anywhere as much lately and tbh, I've been very content with dropping settings in demanding games i.e. poorly optimised games on my 290 where by IQ is hardly any different but the FPS gain is massive, that and playing games on an OLED, gaming is just sublime, the games feel and look so much better thanks to the refresh rate and more so OLED's super fast pixel response time, in some ways, it is almost like I upgraded my GPU or/and have a free/g sync display!
Only reason I need to pick up a new GPU is for full HDR support, hopefully by that time, PC gaming HDR will be much better.
Makes me lol places still asking 250+ for 570 4GB even though there is tons of stock and ebay is full of them. Time to get them back to msrp idiots. Same with all the other cards, GPU mining is dead, stock should be plentiful, your price gouging is over.
Even funnier is local selling groups where people want £250 for their 6GB 1060 still.
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Not long until the prices drop now, lots of stock about and 2nd hand market is rife with miners about to lose a small fortune on a risky gamble
That what price a GTX 1080 Ti should be now seen as its a year old some of them are nearly a thousand pounds its madness.
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I hope so.
I've been looking for a card and following Etherium prices since January but not interested untill I see a 1 or low 2 as the first digit for a 570/580.
yup, kind of wish i bought it at christmas. i was hmming and aahing at the £50-75 is would have cost to get a 1080ti at the time.
Now given I've already waited 3 months and I'm sure nvidia have to release something at some point this year im happy to kind of wait.
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Well, Eth dropped a lot on price over the last month. It lost over half of its value From 860 usd to 370. I haven't seen that reflected in the price of cards from retailers yet. They seem to be lagging quite a lot. So the answer... Possibly soon.
Its the timebomb thats the real killer.
At 670usd it was making less money for mining than when valued at 300usd, the value is just like the final kick in the backside on top of that.
When it hit 1200usd in january I was making about double than in august yet it had 400% the value.
When that ASIC miner got released in january for a specific coin, the dev's of the coin reacted by making it many multiples harder to mine literally overnight. They will do what preserves the values for their "existing" coins, they basically just look after themselves, which is why we have difficulty timebombs.
When I invested in mining hardware back in august 2017, I was taking a punt ETH would rise in value, I calculated the revenues from mining at the august 2017 rates were acceptable but not great, but I vastly under researched the affects of the timebomb, I thought it was a very slow gradual process, but its actually quite accelerated. Now ETH did rise in value, and its still above that august 2017 level, but its far less viable now due to the timebomb.