Bad news for the video card scene

Prices are absurd and cards are barely available. Looks like I'll but stuck with my card for another 10 months :/
 
If you gays are into it keep checking Hardforums. There are some good dudes there that sell for MSRP. I got my 2 FTW3 cards from there without issues.
 
Vanz_007 said:
has there ever been a shortage of video cards this bad... ever?

what is the cause...?
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Not that I recall this bad. Some products have been "phantom edition" but never like this.

Demand is way high and supply remains painfully low so prices soar.
 
Vanz_007 said:
has there ever been a shortage of video cards this bad... ever?

what is the cause...?
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There are 3 main components.

1) Covid has caused a boom in gamer demand because they are working from home.
2) Crypto went nuts, that further increased the demand
3) Covid causes a shipping nightmare.

So demand skyrocketed past all expectations and projections by both AMD and nVidia. Rocketed by the two unexpected things of us working from home and crypto. Then you have shipping being a nightmare right now, making it harder than normal to get components to build cards and get them to retail.


Or just watch this...
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Greasy said:
I just love how US markets are calling that an issue. Almost none of our trade comes through there, but... yay more reason to jack up pricing right?
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Are they? :lol:

Haven't paid any attention, just was making a LupFunny (see below)

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Trunks0 said:
There are 3 main components.

1) Covid has caused a boom in gamer demand because they are working from home.
2) Crypto went nuts, that further increased the demand
3) Covid causes a shipping nightmare.

So demand skyrocketed past all expectations and projections by both AMD and nVidia. Rocketed by the two unexpected things of us working from home and crypto. Then you have shipping being a nightmare right now, making it harder than normal to get components to build cards and get them to retail.
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It's also not helping that there is a global shortage of silicon that cannot be fixed due to the supply simply not being enough.

Also, stunts like this from Nvidia are only making things worse;

Bitcoin mining company boasts $30 million spend on Nvidia CMP GPUs

That's at least 18,000 graphics cards in one single order, for a total of 1,600 Gigahash of mining power.

https://www.pcgamer.com/bitcoin-mining-company-boasts-dollar30-million-spend-on-nvidia-cmp-gpus/
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Yup, nvidia is bypassing the retail markets and selling directly to mining "companies". That's 18,000 GPUS that will never make the markets.
 
Yup and Taiwan is also going through a water drought. That could impact things going forward as well. TSMC is having to truck in water to compensate. It's almost a perfect storm of bs happening.
 
Trunks0 said:
Yup and Taiwan is also going through a water drought. That could impact things going forward as well. TSMC is having to truck in water to compensate. It's almost a perfect storm of bs happening.
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id sell them all the water they need if they build a fab here
 
- High Demand (exacerbated from people at home due to covid)
- Mining
- Scalpers and bots buying up inventory
- Reduced manufacturing ability from overseas


Literally the perfect shitstorm.
 
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