News Two-Year-Old GeForce GTX 1650 Is The Best Selling GPU On Newegg, Amazon

spongiemaster

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How on earth is a card this slow, incapable of mining anything useful, selling for $354 on Newegg, by Newegg? I won a shuffle for a 3060 about a month ago for $440. $85 more for a card that will flat out crush a 1650 from the same retailer. Someone in the chain is making a killing on those 1650's, and it is depressing that so many people are buying those cards at such elevated prices.
 
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LolaGT

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It is the most sold, most popular is a term used as a lie in this case, certainly not desired nor desirable to a builder/gamer, as it is one of the few cards still somewhat commonly available that doesn't require one to sell a kidney, and it is a placeholder card until things get better.
TH headline is misrepresenting at best.
 
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How on earth is a card this slow, incapable of mining anything useful, selling for $354 on Newegg, by Newegg?
If you cannot get your hands on anything remotely decent and you need something better than an IGP now on a limited budget, you get whatever you can that meets your absolute minimum requirements.

Doesn't matter that something "much better only costs $200 more" when $300 is already over-budget and the extra performance is non-essential. With some luck, some measure of sanity will return to the lower-end with the RX6400, RTX3050 and Intel's equivalent launches.