Dragam1337:

If you do it the moment they are released, miners can't have preordered everything. Besides, most retailers only allow you to preorder 2 gpu's.

Yeah, it's true, you're only allowed 2 per person. So if a shop gets any number, say 250 GPUs to sell, it's still the same situation: do you make it to the 125 first people to order, or not? Yeah it can't happen that 10 miners buy up all the cards, but it doesn't really help if there's literally thousands of people preying on a release. I bought my GPU before the mining craze took on the ridiculous dimensions it has today, but this time around I'll be ordering day 1 if possible (well, then the next TI gets released), even though I'll have to wait for a waterblock to show itself, keeping the GPU resting at home for no apparent use than to at least have one. I feel stupid doing that, but it can't be helped, I'll certainly not wait till a year afterwards just because miners are gobbling up those GPUs like a parching man in the desert.

fantaskarsef:

Yeah, it's true, you're only allowed 2 per person. So if a shop gets any number, say 250 GPUs to sell, it's still the same situation: do you make it to the 125 first people to order, or not? Yeah it can't happen that 10 miners buy up all the cards, but it doesn't really help if there's literally thousands of people preying on a release. I bought my GPU before the mining craze took on the ridiculous dimensions it has today, but this time around I'll be ordering day 1 if possible (well, then the next TI gets released), even though I'll have to wait for a waterblock to show itself, keeping the GPU resting at home for no apparent use than to at least have one. I feel stupid doing that, but it can't be helped, I'll certainly not wait till a year afterwards just because miners are gobbling up those GPUs like a parching man in the desert.

Everyone cried on the interwebz 2 years ago that there were no 1080's available on release, and a good while after that... well, i preordered mine asap, and got mine on release. I plan on doing the same again 😉

Dragam1337:

Everyone cried on the interwebz 2 years ago that there were no 1080's available on release, and a good while after that... well, i preordered mine asap, and got mine on release. I plan on doing the same again 😉

hehe exactly my thinking! When the 1080Ti was released thankfully everybody was jumping on the AMD cards still, I was able to buy one "normally", wouldn't count on it this time though.

KissSh0t:

I wonder how many years until gpu prices go back to normal.

Most likely what is considered normal will be a bit higher priced than where it was. I do not see GPU prices coming down that far, regardless of supply.

Embra:

Most likely what is considered normal will be a bit higher priced than where it was. I do not see GPU prices coming down that far, regardless of supply.

Yep, even if all GPU mining stops, the prices will never go down to the previous "low", I'm sure of it.