#GRAPHICS CARD SHORTAGE PC#

(LetвЂ™s take a second to note how strange this is: Everyone usually criticizes retailers for the practice of selling hot-ticket items in expensive bundles, but here, Micro Center is doing it as a good-faith effort to help gaming consumers!) To be clear, the discount will make the price more reasonable, but it probably wonвЂ™t drop it all the way down to the MSRP. Some customers said in a Reddit post today that they were even able to get the deals without a вЂњbundleвЂќ they simply told an employee that they wanted to buy a GPU for gaming purposes.

#GRAPHICS CARD SHORTAGE PC#

In other words, if you walk into a Micro Center to buy a graphics card as well as other PC components - as in, the kind of purchases youвЂ™d be making if you were building a gaming rig - a manager can provide a discount. вЂњsee a store manager to receive our best priceвЂќ However, Micro Center noted in its letter that it is offering further discounts for вЂњin-store bundled componentsвЂќ to reach вЂњa final price well below the market,вЂќ and advised customers to вЂњsee a store manager to receive our best price.вЂќ The company has raised GPU prices on its website in line with retailers like Amazon and Newegg: For example, the cheapest price for MSIвЂ™s GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X (MSRP $459.99) is $945.99 on Amazon and $988.99 on Newegg itвЂ™s not much lower at Micro Center, which has it listed at $919.99. вЂњWe have put internal policies in effect to help safeguard our graphics card inventory so that we do not sell all of our inventory to crypto currency miners.вЂќ вЂњOur foremost goal is to serve our core customers and ensure that Micro Center has enough graphics cards for our customers in the and gaming market segments,вЂќ a Micro Center spokesperson told Polygon. The boutique retailer published a note to customers this week in which it said that it limits quantities, a practice that it implemented last fall when the shortage wasnвЂ™t as severe. Micro Center is taking the most exceptional measure, having implemented a policy in the past week that is specifically designed to prioritize people who are building (or have recently built) a gaming computer. Nvidia and AMD declined comment to Polygon, with both companies citing quiet periods - a business term referring to a waiting period prior to the release of a quarterly fiscal report.Д«ut some retailers have told Polygon that they are indeed taking action on this front. Last week, it was reported that Nvidia is suggesting that its retail partners take measures to help ensure that they can sell graphics cards to gamers ahead of miners. And, as the value of bitcoin spiked in December, prices rose even further. Lower-end cards like the GTX 10 werenвЂ™t affected initially, but miners have moved on to them as the better cards have sold out, pushing up prices for the cheaper GPUs as well. Nvidia suggests retailers put gamers over cryptocurrency miners in graphics card crazeДЇor instance, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070вЂ™s suggested retail price is $380, but it was selling for upward of $450 last year and is now going for more than $700.

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