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>> $212 after tax

So they have doubled in price since then? wtf?

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709%20601341487%20601341...

Ah, you're right. It was a good sale but not quite that crazy - still under $300 total. Combo deal from Newegg and for some reason they invoiced the two parts separately, so when I searched by "5700" it only found the first one. Went back by order number and found both invoices.

Still, less than $300 for this card has been a great bargain. I've since picked up a 1440p screen and it's happily chugging along. Been most of a year and they're still selling for substantially more than this.

Thanks for the clarification. GPU prices have been so volatile that I will credulously believe almost anything at this point. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, the price inflation on midrange cards was pretty crazy. My GTX 970 was around $375, and the 1000/2000 cards were way more expensive. The RX 5700 was the first worthwhile upgrade in a similar price range. Lack of competition paired with cryptocurrency miners.

The 5700 XT in that link is a different card than the 5700.

I see a bunch of both cards and they're both around 400 bucks, give or take... but I kinda figured putting a link to a view into a selection of newegg inventory would end confusing at best :facepalm:

Anyway, ain't no $200 RX 5700.

There's been significant stocking issues on PC components since the pandemic began and thus prices have gone all sorts of crazy. You absolutely shouldn't spend that much on an RX 5700; the performance isn't remotely there to justify that price.

$290 + tax, and $30 back for reselling Borderlands, so effectively $260. BL3 was only a few months old but I think the value was tanked a bit by being an Epic Store key, it was free so I can't complain.

The launch prices were $350 for the 5700 and $400 for the 5700 XT (after the pre-release price drop response to Nvidia), so $260 was $90 under list price, or 25% off.

And really, even finding a GPU for list price instead of being marked up for mining ethereum (or whatever else) was a bit of a miracle compared to the last few years of GPU price insanity.

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