so funny story uhhhh
EVERY.SINGLE,GPU is out of stock from everywhere i can find newegg/amazon found a fan replacement on amazon and saw a vid of someone deshrouding there 580 so ik its possible, until that gets here i relocated a case fan to blow into the place where the dead fan is its keeping my gpu from crashing so far my replacement fan should be here tomorrow , cant believe of all things it was going to be a fan the gpu is only like 2-3years old
As I mentioned earlier. The market of pc’s today is screwed and not just the GPU market, this is because of COVID and the increasing amount of people shopping online. Before, graphics cards were reasonably priced even old generations as well, while today they’ve been increased drastically.
Not only that due to the shortages of the new 30 series GPU. Many are selling their old gen cards highly priced in order to buy the 30series because of how scalpers are reselling them for over 2k dollars. Same goes for the 16 series as well. I’ve witnessed a 1660TI 10 in stock at Newegg being sold less than 5 minutes I’m serious…
While I had a 580 back in 2018 but that was a different build and I sold it. I came back to pc gaming again in late 2020 when the market wasn’t so bad. But upon looking for a new GPU it was extremely difficult since prices were raised. It took me about a month to find the card I want since I had to save up more, luckily I found a 1070 for 290 dollars in good condition while the seller on eBay had about more in stock 5 were already sold in 2 days.
I could’ve gone with a 1660 s or ti as I know many would say. But prices for them were pretty high as well, and while some being priced at a good range sold pretty quick, at that time I never had enough cash to buy that 1660ti when it had 10 in stock. I was trying to but I never realized it would’ve sold out within minutes so I had to find another option.
This applies for AMD cards as well due to their new series of cards they went into an outage as well due to miners. Many people now days would often buy these new cards and resell them for more due to the outage.
Besides that stick with your card for now which is up to you. But I recommend just fixing up the RX 580 you have and use it for now until you can save up money for the card you want, it at least for the market to restore. Trust me I had my 970 about a few months and I’ve been wanting to upgrade to a 1070 at least but I chose the wrong time to do so since this was all unexpected.
Also what’s what brand of the 580 you got ex, Asus, Sapphire, Gigabyte??