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Dang buddy, looks like from your specs you are as future proofed as you could hope to be. Do you have pics of that build posted anywhere?

 
 
Thanks... future proofing was the goal.  The entire system cost me about $5000 this time last year.... $4500 on the hardware and another $500 on the desk and chair.  I'd wager it would cost about the same today... due to the inflated GPU and RAM prices offsetting the price drops on the hardware and Rift.
 

 
My external optical drive isn't pictured... I keep it in a drawer unless I'm ripping/encoding blue rays.  My cable management consists of zip ties with the 3 VR sensors stuck to the ceiling.  It gives me an optimal roomscale VR play area.

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TravisPNW Good lookin build, I bet it is an absolute beast! Also whats up from Seattle my fellow PNWesterner.

Tri-Cities over here

repo1979

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TravisPNW Good lookin build, I bet it is an absolute beast! Also whats up from Seattle my fellow PNWesterner.

Tri-Cities over here

Ha! Small world I guess.

Does anyone know how to possibly get a gtx 1080ti thats even near msrp? I have text alerts set up for nowinstock but every single time I go to order something it's already sold out

squall-leonhart

rjohnson11
I can't officially speak for EVGA but what I can tell you is that memory prices are escalating. Not just DDR 4 but GDDR5. A quick look for a 128GB DDR4 Dominator memory for Corsair is over 1100 Euros.

Apple is hogging fabrication lines with massive orders of chips for its crappy phone line.

Yea I was trying to build a couple PC's but it's just not worth it at the moment...
 
I will almost certainly have to take a loss to sell them because the little guy like me can't compete against pre builts and the likes.
 
I'll have to just go back to gaming and put the building aside for a few years it seems.
 
It's a sad time to be an enthusiast... :/
 

Sucks that I just got back into working..and might have the money to spend on a new PC..but prices are insane
 
hahahaha
 

like others are saying. wait....gddr5 is expensive and not being produced in the quantity it once was. gddr6 is in full production. the rumor mill is doing a great job of confusing people with maybe there will be new cards, maybe there won't be. 
 
however. a HUGE chunk of nvidia's earnings comes from GPU's and the lack of production is such it's going to affect the next quarters bottom line. i honestly don't see how they can put this off and i've wondered why we haven't seen an early release. this production mistake has cost them countless millions in missed sales

racebum

Black6spdZ
maybe we'll get lucky and all crypto's will crash so we can finally buy a new video card.. damn this mining bullsh!t!!

it's not the issue. it's not even remotely the issue. look at production statistics. supply is down, WAY down. 
 
an antminer s9 is a better ROI than GPU building right now

It's partly the issue. Unanticipated demand by miners has impacted supply. There's no way it hasn't.  Miners seem to take it personally that they are being blamed for the shortages and higher prices.

racebum

HeavyHemi

racebum

Black6spdZ
maybe we'll get lucky and all crypto's will crash so we can finally buy a new video card.. damn this mining bullsh!t!!

it's not the issue. it's not even remotely the issue. look at production statistics. supply is down, WAY down. 
 
an antminer s9 is a better ROI than GPU building right now

It's partly the issue. Unanticipated demand by miners has impacted supply. There's no way it hasn't.  Miners seem to take it personally that they are being blamed for the shortages and higher prices.

The mining run was Nov/Dec it's simply not profitable to build with these prices and there is no Supply. Like I said you can get an antminer S9 and have a better return on investment if buying today

Nvidia got the demand forecast wrong. I suppose that it's kind of understandable because they likely made the forecast back in October maybe November.

What gets me is the actual number of card units has decreased. Gddr5 has been reduced in production and gddr6 greatly increased. I mean that right there tells you what's going on.

All the hype media sources are saying maybe there's going to be a release and then the next day they say maybe not simply to try and generate ad revenue.

I can remember video card releases going back to 2007 and every time the rumor mill gets going right before release. There can be all kinds of rumors and they don't even have to be accurate ones but once it starts pumping up you know the new cards are going to be announced anytime.

Again, unanticipated demand of  8-10% as expressed by AMD and Nvidia is in part cause. Memory shortages, there's several causes. I don't know why miners decided their demand doesn't count...well actually I do. They don't like being blamed for the shortages and price increases. A natural reaction I guess.

Gosh I sure hope they aren't that ignorant. This fad as some of you refer to it has been going on for nearly 10 years. While no one knows the future for certain we can see World governments adopting and we can see blockchain technology and it being fairly revolutionary. There is becoming more and more development in peer-to-peer transfer and more than anything small countries around the world that have unstable currencies are going to greatly benefit from this

ty_ger07

HeavyHemiAgain, unanticipated demand of  8-10% as expressed by AMD and Nvidia is in part cause. Memory shortages, there's several causes. I don't know why miners decided their demand doesn't count...well actually I do. They don't like being blamed for the shortages and price increases. A natural reaction I guess.

Miners' purchases count. Every person's purchase counts. But, miners don't like to be blamed. Why? Because they are the minority being blamed for the majority. They had a very small part overall, but are receiving the majority of the blame. If the blame was equal placed based on percentages, you wouldn't see so many defensive miners.

Blaming anyone buying is the wrong move. The blame lies solely on nvidia for getting the demand cycle wrong and ultimately they are paying for it. Right now there are a lot of buyers that would buy a card for a fair deal. Those don't exist right now and there is very little quantity on the market.

GPU sales are 25% of their earnings and there might be a potential short or put option trade here. If Nvidia is not supplying the cards they are not making the money and that is going to bite them on their next quarter

SpeedyE420
Buy a cheaper evga card such as a 1050 or 1060 and go the step-up route. You get your step up for MSRP and I only had to wait in line for about 10 days. Have to send in payment tomorrow and ship my card in and they will be sending me my 1080ti!!!

Seriously? Basically this lets you get in line for when another card you actually want comes in stock and you don't have to play the waiting game? That's an amazing deal right now

SpeedyE420
Yea actually I had no idea about it until I registered the 1060 I bought. I wanted a 1080ti but the prices were so inflated everywhere there is no way I would have been able to afford one if I could find one. When I registered and looked at everything it was right there under my product. Getting a 1080ti SC gaming black edition for $829 plus shipping. I'm definitely not complaining and it is amazing EVGA does that for their customers. I know I will never buy from another supplier from now on.

It is now priced @ 859.99, last week it was 829. 

That's a great idea! 1060 should be enough for 1080p on high for most games at 60fps

You're probably running into the same problem that the rest of us looking to upgrade are.  The last rig that I built was back in 2013 so I'm
definitely past due for an upgrade.
 
As far as the prices go, the vast majority of reasons have already been listed:
RAM prices increasing due to smartphone demand, low supply of cards because of crypto-mining
 
If you want evidence of the RAM supply being an issue all you need to do is look up RAM prices to see just how inflated they are.
2x8gb of 2133 GDDR4 will run you easily over $120.
 
Been following nowinstock and newegg for the better part of a month now.  Sometimes, albeit very rarely, you'll see a 1080ti go up for
around $750, but those get snatched up within less than 3 minutes of being posted.  Most of the prices listed, and I know this because I get push-notifications
are almost always in the $900 range.  Finding one ~$800 is pretty much a steal at this point.
 
Even alternative options like looking for a pre-built (which I hate the idea of), have been caught onto and this includes bundle deals on newegg where 
they'll bundle a mobo with a card, but you end up paying $900-950 for the card and save $20 on the mobo.