Cryptoscum, but I'll be buying a high end GPU for $50 soon

I'll sell you one of my 246 cards. For only 30% over MSRP. Still better than you can buy at the store. How does that sound?

"If looking at percentage increase, the prices for RAM is worse. 16GB of DDR4 RAM is nearly $200 now. It was about $75 a year"

Should we blame Crypto scum for that aswell?
 
Macca1 said:
"If looking at percentage increase, the prices for RAM is worse. 16GB of DDR4 RAM is nearly $200 now. It was about $75 a year"

Should we blame Crypto scum for that aswell?
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Memory demand for graphics cards drives up other memory prices as well.
 
d08 said:
Memory demand for graphics cards drives up other memory prices as well.
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That is about the last reason for the increase in ram price. Only a certain percentage of all ram manufacturerd is allocated to the GPU market and it's a very small percentage relative to the likes of mobile phones( 40%). The ram in mobile phones is the most profitable market, so this what manufacturers have been focusing their supply on. The short supply of desktop memory started in 2016, before the recent mining boom.
 
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