Is it a bad time to build a gaming PC? (aka pricing of graphics cards?)
I haven't really followed the PC parts market for a long, long time, and was recently tossing around the idea of building a budget gaming desktop (e.g. Ryzen 3; for 1080p).
Then when looking into graphics cards it seemed that the chatter around the internet suggests that the supply-demand curve is way out to the left due to crypto currency mining... I was originally hoping to get a GTX 1060 or whatever the AMD-equivalent was, but if the prices are really as inflated over MSRP as some of the internet chatter makes it sound to be, then it seems that a budget build isn't really possible anymore without stepping back to previous generation hardware?
Is this still the case? I don't have a good sense of how much hardware is worth these days (the last video card I bought was a GeForce 6600 GT, and I think that was around $300-400 CAD back then). Is ~$300 for a GTX 1060 3GB and ~$400 for a GTX 1060 6GB a "good" price these days, or is that still inflated by the crypto currency mining demand?
What are your thoughts on the GPU market right now - better to just wait (I suppose either for NVIDIA/AMD to increase supply or miners to move onto new hardware), or perhaps consider a GTX 1050 TI as apparently the 1050 TI and lower cards were not affected by the crypto currency surge?
Then when looking into graphics cards it seemed that the chatter around the internet suggests that the supply-demand curve is way out to the left due to crypto currency mining... I was originally hoping to get a GTX 1060 or whatever the AMD-equivalent was, but if the prices are really as inflated over MSRP as some of the internet chatter makes it sound to be, then it seems that a budget build isn't really possible anymore without stepping back to previous generation hardware?
Is this still the case? I don't have a good sense of how much hardware is worth these days (the last video card I bought was a GeForce 6600 GT, and I think that was around $300-400 CAD back then). Is ~$300 for a GTX 1060 3GB and ~$400 for a GTX 1060 6GB a "good" price these days, or is that still inflated by the crypto currency mining demand?
What are your thoughts on the GPU market right now - better to just wait (I suppose either for NVIDIA/AMD to increase supply or miners to move onto new hardware), or perhaps consider a GTX 1050 TI as apparently the 1050 TI and lower cards were not affected by the crypto currency surge?
