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I had a gutfeel around 3080 launch it was going to be big, so grabbed one on launch day (had to wait for months for the local store to have stock though..). Now seeing them 2x the price. Crazy times.

I am in need of an upgrade but having a harder and harder time justifying the expense for what is a hobby.

I guess eventually my system will be old enough that I will be better off just ordering a prebuilt, where I'll get gouged a bit overall but not by some insane amount just for a GPU

Price of pre-built will reflect the price for components. So if the GPU price increases, so will the pre-built price.

Then again, a corporation is likely able to contract with another corporation in a way that's not disturbed by scalpers?

Long gone are the days for decent $350 card.

1080 GTXes bough and resold on ebays for tens of times are still going strong.