FookDat:

All they have to do to stop the mining issue is make dedicated cards for mining only, dont allow gaming gpus to do mining... PROBLEM SOLVED! Thats what firepro cards are for right?! Video editing and compression they specialize in it! They already have options to choose to set it to graphics or computing. But they are making so much money off the price hiking they wont stop. Video card manufacturers should be held accountable just like the memory companies just got sued for 8 billion dollars for doing the same thing! These big companies love the high demand and low supply allows them to charge whatever they want cause they know people will buy it. Plus they are not coming out with another graphics card till next year. They are milking it. Instead of the 1080 price going down they will discontinue it when they release the next card.

What you are describing is an ASIC, it's the reason bitcoin isn't mined on GPU's anymore. An ASIC etherium miner released recently which is certainly contributing to the decline of mining. https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-asics-means-whats-next/ Samsung, Hynix, and Micron got fined for price fixing so unless you're suggesting that AMD and Nvidia are colluding to drive up the values of cryptocurrencies (which now that I say it, it doesn't sound implausible), they're only guilty of being subjected to market forces. I don't get all the hatred for the GPU manufacturers, especially the 3rd party manufacturers. Sure they're turning a nice profit but they're also having to invest quite a bit to expand production lines and ramp up to meet demand which in a volatile market can leave them hanging with millions of dollars worth of stock that they're probably gonna have to sell at a loss in the end. Which if you read HH's article is exactly whats happening. And lets face it, it's not exactly like you're suffering if the only major problem you have is trying to upgrade your GPU.

Neo Cyrus:

The greed is unreal. Enjoy that unsold stock. Did you get screwed by one of their scams where their review samples and first batches were different than their "revisions" which used less and shittier parts? I know they did that with motherboard VRMs, GPU memory, coke, hookers, everything. I'm still furious the comically overpriced GTX 970 'G1 Gaming' card I bought used garbage reject Hynix RAM that would clock up to... 1GHz lower than the review samples with higher grade Samsung RAM. I used to buy my motherboards almost exclusively from Gigabyte. They'll never get a cent out of me again.

The USB3.0 ports are wonky, some devices work fine while others just cut out when transfering files. Seems to be motherboard related, i did some googling and more people with the same motherboard suffer from it. So that's pretty much why i won't be getting a Gigabyte motherboard anymore.