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MrKevinSweet

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I bought a 7950 for $220 in October. The most expensive gpu in the 7000 series I could find was $500 at the time. Why is the 7950 now upwards of $350 (for the worst brand)? The one that I got (his iceq 7950 boost) is now $460. Can someone please explain this? I recently wanted to crossfire but jeez not with this much price difference. Building my once $1200 dollar computer would cost almost $2000 now with these prices!
 
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Hi - Agreed. It's as Praise_Gaben said (and I agree), the bitcoin miners have created a shortage on the new high end AMD cards, which in turn has had a trickle down effect. That's what you've run into.

I've been following this closely as I was planning on upgrading my own 7870, and am now on hold. I'm not a heavy gamer, so I can afford to wait.
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Jon Bartlett

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Ok well first of all, you have to look at clock speeds. GTX 780s can range from $500-$670 (not 780 ti). I'm a nvidia>radeon fyi :D
Your gpu might have had the lowest clock rate in the 7950 family, at $220, and at the time of your purchase, the other gpu you are looking at could have had a much higher clock rate, at probably ~$500. Also, it depends on where you are buying from. I'm a HUGE advocate of pcpartpicker.com because it shows you the lowest prices from any store instead of you having to dig through it yourself.
 
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Praise_Gaben

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It's because of the annoying virtual coin miners.. the 7950 performs really well in their mining rigs and the basic laws of supply and demand will just drive the prices upwards. If a shop sees the 7950 sell really fast, they will just increase the price.

 
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yes but computer parts never fluctuate over 5% The type of inflation that he is describing is considerable, and gpu companies are not drastically increasing price of components due to bitcoin, bitcoin is becoming drastically harder to make money at due to the larger community ergo more blocks to mine.

Again, it's probably because you are either looking at a different store, manufacturer, or different clock speed.
 
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Actually, Praise_Gaben is correct, the prices have risen well beyond 5% on many high end cards due to coin miners.
The subsequent shortage in 290 & 290x has had a trickle down effect on the 7950, 7970, etc.

Remember, the big selling point on the 290(before release) was it's $399 selling price, the cheapest is $462 and the non reference models are $586.
 
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MrKevinSweet

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No guys, the exact same 925mhz clocked his iceq boost clock edition gpu on newegg (where I got it before, but prices are similar everywhere for it). I know how models and speed work. It was. $220 when I bought it on October 30th. These prices remained for a while, then they shot up at the end of November by over two times.
 
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Hi - Agreed. It's as Praise_Gaben said (and I agree), the bitcoin miners have created a shortage on the new high end AMD cards, which in turn has had a trickle down effect. That's what you've run into.

I've been following this closely as I was planning on upgrading my own 7870, and am now on hold. I'm not a heavy gamer, so I can afford to wait.
 
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