Only EVGA for me. Gotta be patient. 1080 Ti is the last piece I need for my current build.

The game is rough, son. I'm still rocking my 980ti hybrid that's a few years old now. It's time to upgrade but watching these prices increase is keeping me firmly planted. I have no problem sitting it out a few more years until the 1180 series is old news. I don't like being gouged.

Yah I'm seriously thinking about selling my 1080Ti and using a 1060 I have in a 2nd PC for a few months until the next gen rolls around.

Way too tempting to sell this for $1000+ and make some extra cash to put toward a new card a few months down the line.

ClaytonGaudry
when will the prices ever go down? Even EVGA is starting to raise prices? What the heck

May take a while..    RAM prices have almost doubled even wholesale prices.      That is why EVGA and other companies have raised prices about 10-12% across the board.
 
If Ram prices start to fall we should see video cards start to follow suit.     Now that won't stop scalpers and resellers selling for massive markups as long as there are still shortages.

$1,300 for a kp! Wow...

It might be worth it but man... that’s a JUMP. Glad I got mine last year...

That's just it. It's not only high prices but the uncertainty surrounding a new release. I understand it's good for nVidia to sell current stock but it's bad for the fanbase that there is no visibility on launch date. But's that's standard practice I suppose - these are not standard times though.

iamtorsoul
Man, a few weeks ago I was able to get a FTW3 1080ti for $819.99 from EVGA. Now they're $999.99! Dang, glad I got one then.

Yup, This is the third price hike in a month it seems. They just took another jump right after I paid for my step-up [1080ti SC Black]. $859, is now $919 #Madness....

I purchased my 1070Ti November 19th for $489 and now the FTW2 just jumped to $649, a $160 increase, which is ridiculous, and defiantly not worth the price of admission right now for any of the current gen cards.If your current GPU gives up the ghost, you are better off snagging something like a 780Ti to get you by until next gen has landed. I still have my retired mint condition GTX 660 Ti FTW+ 3GB w/Backplate in the box in case of emergency.

 

gimpy54321
prices are starting to drop. hang in there. give it another 6-8 weeks. with new card builds right around the corner. you will be in a better place for finding the card you want.

This. I'm seeing 1080tis go in the $700's again. All will be well again shortly.

It looks like prices are dropping like a tank especially on FTW3 as I think a lot of minors purchased them and are now selling.

rower30
I gave up and got an EVGA 1070 ti hybrid for $630.00. I use 1440P so the GTX1080 was overkill...and I'm STILL running a Intel 1156 socket MSI P55 GD80 i7-870 set-up! After getting the 1070ti hybrid running, I see Crysis at full visual setting @ 60-80 FPS. Why change the MB and CPU? OK, my I/O is slower but so what, it's plenty fast enough to run with SATA drives installed. 
 
Until the CPU hardware vulnerability is solved, I'm set for now with a ten year old CPU...that still works fine. Maybe three more years from now I'll look at a different PC but as is, the old i7 870 system with modern SSDS and a 1070ti plays modern games plenty fast. 

Ditch the SATA SSDs, mod your bios and boot and run with an NVME SSD if you really want to wake up that older system.

donta1979
At these prices more people are going to buy consoles... or buy prebuilt systems since you can get those with 1070/1070 TI's for 1100-1200 and a newer I7 with like 16gb of ram.

You got that right. If that's what they want then more power to them. I'm pretty much over the whole rediculous high prices on GPU's. They can just keep them and I'll stick with what I have.

I'm with everyone here.
Companies like EVGA try to tell their sob story about RAM prices or miners. RAM prices have gone up, but they don't justify the 25% increase in EVGA 1080ti cards in just a few weeks.
This is all EVGA.
 
It's nothing but opportunistic gouging based on artificially hyped supply/demand.
Miners account for a tiny fraction of GPU sales, but so many people got caught up in the frenzy that it's allowed these companies to rip people off.
 
I'm an EVGA 'Elite' member, which means nothing since they sell the supposedly 'elite' only 1080ti cards to anyone who will pay the highest dollar.
 
I'm really finding it hard to justify PC gaming going forwards when my XB1X with enhanced games look amazing. 
Of course I miss the FPS that I get on my PC, but it's not worth the prices.
 
Used to respect this company.

rower30
No, NvME drives are overpriced for what real benefit they provide. 1156 socket MB’s don’t have NvME and require a daughter card, too. What little real world speed NvME drives provide opening Quicken or loading a game is better left in the bank. I did add a $8.00 daughter card and have USB 3.0, which I do use to load music files to 128 GB thumb drives.

I’ll wait it out for the next CPU architecture generation and decide what’s worth it at that time. As is, a ten+ year old CPU is trucking along just fine. The CPU market is still DOA for real benefit for me. The GPU’s did advance to twice, or more, as fast so that’s worth getting.

I'm personally more excited to see Intel bounce back with their all in one CPU/GPU chip that could punch Nvidia in their nuts.
Without any need for an interface (PCIe), speeds are vastly superior than PCIe.
 
Intel has also been lazy and greedy, but with Apple announcing that as of 2020 they will no longer use Intel for any CPU's, they really need to find new revenue sources.
Maybe that's why they are working with AMD to put pressure on Nvidia (https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/06/intel-and-amd-partner-on-graphics-and-cpu-combo-to-challenge-nvidia/)
I would love to see companies like Nvidia come grovelling to us gamers when their overstocked GPU Chinese warehouses flow over.....I will crack a nice champagne that day.
 
I know it's maybe wishful thinking, but these Asian companies colluding and making dodgy deals (all the major DRAM companies had a 'chat' in 2017 and decided instead of trying to beat each other in price, they could all make a fortune by hiking the prices and slowing supply - this is fact, look it up. They say it's an 'agreement' or 'truce' but it's collusion) need to feel the pain of their greedy ways.
 
I'm glad I built my PC in late 2016 because the exact same system would cost me close to $1000 more today.
If this situation doesn't resolve, I'm going with console - Xbox are soon to enable full keyboard and mouse support.
Right now the performance for dollar of an Xbox One X cannot be beat by any PC with todays prices. No way, now how.