That is nuts, slightly off topic...

[racinjoe013]

Looking around Amazon for a possible video card upgrade purchase for my 1660 that I bought a little over a year ago for $199. They are now selling for $750 on Amazon. That's nuts. What is the reason for the massive jump in video card prices?

So now instead of contemplating a video card upgrade, i'm praying that my current one doesn't break because I couldn't afford one at those prices.

 

[Stereo]

Major cryptocurrency prices went up about 10x in the last couple months, this directly drives gpu prices up

 

[racinjoe013]

Hope things go back to normal at some point because that is a crazy increase in price in just over a year. That's what a 1080 used to cost new.

 

[Dr. Death]

"things go back to normal" hahahahahaha
Some people will find any excuse to leave the prices as they are. At least AMD are more affordable because they are kinda crap to mine with.