Have you seen GPU prices lately?

[Daekar]

My brother texted today to inform me that his GPU had bitten the dust, and that got us talking about replacements. He is willing to spend a lot more money on PC hardware than I am, but even he is balking at the current prices for mid-range and high-end graphics cards. I heard that and checked out what the prices looked like on Newegg and almost had a seizure right there on the spot. The low end of mid-range cards are now going for $700+ and many higher end cards (read: the middle-market ones really worth buying) were listed for over $1500! I'm sorry, to me that is the cost of an entire PC build with a new monitor thrown in if you do your shopping right. Who in their right mind is paying those prices?

I have been a PC gamer since my earliest childhood and built my own PCs since college, but I will drop that hobby like a rock if things stay like this. It's inexcusable that I could buy everything required to reload and cast for 44 Magnum and grab the Ruger Redhawk to go with it for the price of a GPU which wouldn't be much of an upgrade from the card I spent $250 on several years ago. Hell, you can get a perfectly decent suppressor including the tax stamp for that money.

The mind just boggles. I never thought I would become a console-gamer only, but damn, it might be the only way forward if my GPU dies on me any time soon.

[Jaaymar]

Unfortunately that is happening to everything with a silicon chip.
I read that was/is the reason for used cars being in such short supply, being that new cars need CPUs and GPUs (digital displays). As a result new cars were/in short supply.

This may last for some time.

May be a reason to buy used computers to harvest the components.

[andrew375]

The problem is that gpu chips have been found to do things like bitcoin mining and AI really well. It's to do with their being designed for floating point arithmetic. I was just reading in an industry journal about an AI machine that used a thousand nVidia graphics boards! The good news is that AI research has gone in a direction that doesn't use gpus.

[Winger Ed.]

. Who in their right mind is paying those prices? .

Well, it does cost more to go first class.

This reminds me:
Years ago, a long time friend was showing an old friend of his the new cowboy boots he'd had custom made.
The guy wanted to have a pair made for him self, and asked how much they cost.

My friend told him they were $900.
His buddy looked like you'd slapped him with a fish.
"$900---- dollars? You're kidding. Did you know---- That'd pay for all weekend with a GOOD looking hooker".

Yeah,,, some of my friends are what my old Southern belle Grandmother would call 'coarse'.

[Smoke4320]

and they don't use GPUs

[Shawlerbrook]

Have you seen the prices of EVERYTHING lately !

[skrapyard628]

The GPU prices are definitely absurd. I, too, have been a PC gamer since the beginning of my gaming days. My current rig was built in 2014 and its about time to upgrade to keep up with the newer games coming out.

I was looking at the new processors and motherboards a few weeks ago and was fairly excited about putting together a new computer....until I saw the price of new GPUs. Currently Im running a GTX980Ti, so out of curiosity I looked to see what the going price of one is right now. It costs more than I paid for mine years ago. Its just absurd.

[megasupermagnum]

I'm not much of a gamer, but I play time to time. My saving grace is that I'm overall disappointed with the trend of online multiplayer games, and prefer older platformers, and RPG games. Last year about June-ish when I was looking to upgrade computers I was met with crazy prices, but not as bad as you quote. At that time the killer was the processor, and you flat out could not find any Intel I7 in stock anywhere. I don't know much about Ryzden, and yes GPU's were expensive then too, I just said to heck with it. There were some pre-builts as good for less than the components cost, but overall more than I wanted to spend. I ended up with a half decent used computer from 2018-2019. It needs low or medium settings on the newest games now coming out, but it does ok. It plays The Hunter great, so I'm happy.

[Gone_rabid]

My son has a very slightly used 3070 available. Just saying.

[FLINTNFIRE]

Well, it does cost more to go first class.

This reminds me:
Years ago, a long time friend was showing an old friend of his the new cowboy boots he'd had custom made.
The guy wanted to have a pair made for him self, and asked how much they cost.

My friend told him they were $900.
His buddy looked like you'd slapped him with a fish.
"$900---- dollars? You're kidding. Did you know---- That'd pay for all weekend with a GOOD looking hooker".

Yeah,,, some of my friends are what my old Southern belle Grandmother would call 'coarse'.

I agree $900 boots is coarse . a weekend well thats entertainment

[contender1]

I had no idea what a GPU was,, so I had to open the thread to learn.

I'm not an "online gamer" at all. I prefer to being old school & my games are in person. I shoot USPSA competition, occasional pool, blackjack, (in a casino,).
Oh, I do play a bit of solitaire card games on my phone when I'm suddenly having to wait on something & didn't bring anything to read with me.

My youngest son is an online gamer,, so I'm sure he's aware of such stuff.

So, to each his own.

[megasupermagnum]

I had no idea what a GPU was,, so I had to open the thread to learn.

I'm not an "online gamer" at all. I prefer to being old school & my games are in person. I shoot USPSA competition, occasional pool, blackjack, (in a casino,).
Oh, I do play a bit of solitaire card games on my phone when I'm suddenly having to wait on something & didn't bring anything to read with me.

My youngest son is an online gamer,, so I'm sure he's aware of such stuff.

So, to each his own.

All computers have a GPU (even your phone), although many of them are integrated, where all "gaming" computers use a dedicated unit.

[farmbif]

there is a very informative video on youtube about the current chip situation that is just the facts.
I think this is the one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtSSoZW19vs

so it may be that in a couple/few years there will be plenty of chips made here in USA.
retail prices of goods usually has something to do with supply and demand
I guess when chip situation normalizes the bubble will burst on used vehicles and like the housing/mortgage crisis this time it will be with vehicles that people will owe a lot of money on that will be near worthless with hundreds of thousands of miles on the odometer.

[jdfoxinc]

GPU prices are being dictated by crypto currency mining. Right now it is quite profitable to mine coins like Etherium with a multi GPU rig.

[bedbugbilly]

I'm so old I didn't even understand what all you guys were talking about until I got to SlippyRider's post!

[rockrat]

When I saw the tag line, I was thinking Ground Power Units!!!! Been around aircraft too long