Sunday, January 28th 2018
MicroCenter Sells Graphics Cards at MSRP - If You Also Buy Other Components
MicroCenter is known for its wacky deals on PC hardware, notably selling processors at below-MSRP rates. In a bid to ensure gamers - and not miners - have access to graphics cards, the retailer is willing to sell you one graphics card at MSRP, provided that the order (cart) includes a processor, a motherboard, a memory kit, and a power-supply (some of the key ingredients of a PC). This offer should help people building gaming PCs from scratch, but not so much people upgrading their graphics cards. It's still way better than how retailers from across the big pond are making sure crypto-mining doesn't irreversibly damage the gaming PC ecosystem. To ensure miners don't swallow up cards at MSRP by bundling them with cheap entry-level hardware, the offer can be redeemed once per delivery address.
Best Buy is another retailer selling graphics cards at prices close to MSRP. Amazon and Newegg are making a killing. This is a particularly terrible time to buy/upgrade your graphics cards, as bulk purchases from crypto-currency miners have caused a triple-digit inflation in prices. If your 2-year old graphics card can't cope with today's AAA games, maybe it's time to buy a console, or play a game IRL (like handball).
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PC Gamer
Best Buy is another retailer selling graphics cards at prices close to MSRP. Amazon and Newegg are making a killing. This is a particularly terrible time to buy/upgrade your graphics cards, as bulk purchases from crypto-currency miners have caused a triple-digit inflation in prices. If your 2-year old graphics card can't cope with today's AAA games, maybe it's time to buy a console, or play a game IRL (like handball).
24 Comments on MicroCenter Sells Graphics Cards at MSRP - If You Also Buy Other Components
Problem is, most of the time they still short on supplies since miners will go to major distributors and buy GPUs in bulk right from the ship containers.
in a communist world you join a waiting list which may be never ending.. in a capitalist world you pay a higher price ether in money paid or hours spent searching for a bargain that may or may not appear.. :)
trog
But its crypto - 1 per household :roll:
get it wrong and you ether have a glut of inventory or a shortage.. currently we have a shortage..
what i do find odd is the hatred conjured up as regards gpu shortages but very little said about the huge ram price increases.. maybe its simply down to having someone obvious to blame..
as to my comments about communism and capitalism.. that just how it works when there is shortage of something.. i wasnt trying to show bias ether way..
trogtis a world wide problem.. you have picked the wrong time to do major PC upgrades.. maybe picked is the wrong word but ether way it aint a good time for the high end PC industry..
silly prices on ram and gpu plus the cpu security issues..
trog
The spare 980Ti is just about at the end of it's warranty - about 6 months to go - would be nice to have a newer GPU simply just for the sake of having a good warranty to fall back on.
Also, the mining craze won't last forever (I hope) and maybe I should take advantage of the fact I can sell my 980Ti for almost the same I spent on it 2.5 years ago.
"Buy a video card get free CPU+RAM+power supply" since that will all add up to the overinflated price of the GPU anyway if sold alone. Pretty good deal IMHO, might as well have the other parts to either use or sell off since they are technically "free" with the purchase of an overpriced GPU