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my 1080 ti sells for 30% more than i paid for it 3? 4? years ago. its price has fluctuated in mostly perfect tandem with crypto. just based on first hand experience, your claim (if its what you are actually claiming) that miners arent influencing the price is pretty wrong.

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My point was more nuanced than that. Of course miners are influencing GPU prices. If miners stopped buying all GPUs, prices would probably go back to MSRP pretty quickly.

But stopping miners from buying one GPU model won't make it sell at MSRP. Miners switch to buying other cards, driving the price of those even higher, but the LHR cards are still going to be out of stock everywhere and scalped for 2x MSRP, because there are so many gamers buying GPUs.

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