Are graphics cards going to get cheaper?

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I'm looking to upgrade my old AMD Radeon HD 7800 and I was thinking to get a GTX 1060 3GB, but I forgot that the prices went up because of all the crypto-mining.
For (approximately) how long will the prices continue to rise? Are they already going down?
 
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Eventually prices will drop when the mining hysteria goes bust. The market will likely get flooded with used GPUs then as well. In the meantime, be careful with "good" deals. There are a bunch of counterfeit products in the market trying to take advantage of folks.
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Eventually prices will drop when the mining hysteria goes bust. The market will likely get flooded with used GPUs then as well. In the meantime, be careful with "good" deals. There are a bunch of counterfeit products in the market trying to take advantage of folks.
 
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We have no real way of predicting when (if?) this will happen. If any of us could do so, we'd probably be fund managers.
 
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Touché.
 
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Eventually, but probably not by much. Demand for desktop hardware is dropping each year. The whole gaming industry is shifting toward mobile (smart phones and tablets). So companies are likely to shift production away from large graphics cards going forward.
 
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Technically prices haven't gone up. It's just that crypto-miners are buying up all the cheaply-priced cards, leaving only stores with high prices with stock. This is why prebuilt systems are still able to ship with high-end cards at a reasonable price. If the rest of your computer is as old as your Radeon 7800, you may want to consider just buying a new prebuilt computer with a decent GPU already in it. Walmart was closing out an HP i5 system with a 3GB 1060 a few months back for $350.
 
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The price increases are real to consumers and are a matter of "supply and demand". Prices go up when resources are scarce.

Good point regarding pre-builts. There are still "bargains" to be found from these sources.
 
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I have an Intel i5-3450 that I bought a couple months ago, the system's not too outdated. It's just the graphics card that needs replacing. Do you recommend anything else besides the 1060 (within its price range)?
 
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Assuming a 1920x1080 monitor, running at 60Hz thus expecting 60fps, a 6GB 1060 would be the way to go. So would an RX 570 or RX 580, but those have been hit even harder, for the most part, in terms of price inflation due to the cryptocurrency craze.

Occasionally a good deal (well, relative to today's prices) pops up, but, naturally, tends to get sold out quickly.
 
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