The rise of cryptocurrency mining has created a global shortage of high-end graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD, driving up prices for retail gamers/buyers
“Cryptocurrency can't crash soon enough,” one gamer fumes. — The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear.
The shortage is real folks — I just built a system and had a heck of a time finding a decent card. Salesman told me miners are coming in and buying whole racks of graphics cards. The manufacturers are even highlighting “crypto” features in their marketing materials. Ick. http://t…
“I went to a store that's well known for PC gamers' tech,” Alaquel told us by email. “As soon as I asked for a high-end GPU he said 'you're also one of them miners!' He told me that everything is sold out because of miners!” https://arstechnica.com/...