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Sounds like Nvidia hasn't actually raised the price. They could just auction this off from their website directly and cut out the middle man.
by ajmurmann 5y ago
Sounds like Nvidia hasn't actually raised the price. They could just auction this off from their website directly and cut out the middle man.
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- topspin 5y agoI don't know with certainty, but I believe NVidia has raised prices. I base this on the prices that appear on the sites of custom system vendors. Until recently you could get a complete machine from many builders with a GPU at something close to MSRP. Now you can't. These builders (the larger ones anyhow) don't buy from scalpers, so that means the device manufactures have raise their prices. Anyhow, that's my theory. Anyone have actual recent price lists for NVidia GPUs? Otherwise we're all just guessing.
- optymizer 5y agoThey do sell cards on their website and they also direct users to websites of other manufacturers (like eVGA). The problem is nVidia had no protection against orders being placed by bots at the first second the cards go on sale, so it was virtually impossible for a human to order the cards, so the middle men got all the cards. Between the high demand with gamers, scalpers with bots, and crypto farms gobbling up _graphics_ cards, the prices went up by an insane amount, and some people did pay double to get their hands on it.