Quick techie kind of question

[Ahpook]

I am running a gaming computer using SLI 1080ti fx cards. I'd like to upgrade to a 3080 ASAP, but availability is scarce right now. Anyway, started looking back on older fx cards, and the pricing is outrageous on those "potato" cards.

Looked up pricing on a 2080ti, and it was double the price of a 3080 in some instances, but always higher priced. After seeing that I looked up an older card I used before the 1080's which is a EVGA 1070. They are selling them higher now than when I originally purchased it new years ago.

Any idea why the pricing is like this?

[Goonch]

1. It's Still a Terrible Time to Buy a Graphics Card

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/terrible-time-to-buy-gpu-late-2020

[Ahpook]

2. Great article

What a mess this seems to be. I'll just stick with twin 1080's for now. I wanted to get into ray tracing gaming, but the market is ridiculous.

Thank you

[TwilightZone]

3. Bitcoin mining is part of it.

As the price of bitcoin goes up, so does video card demand, especially higher-end cards. It's largely responsible for a lot of the silly prices over the past few years.