[SOLVED] Why are all graphics out of stock

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Feb 7, 2021
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If you are checking on Amazon, it could be due to Covid-19. The shipping and transportation across states might be slow since most of them are being utilised to supply emergency, healthcare supplies.
 
Same here in the UK. I didnt realise exactly how bad things have got.I checked out most of the big online retailers here and nowhere has them, well, I found one RX 570, the same one I bought for my son's system a year ago was £124, now it's selling for £319!
 
  • Scalpers buying up a hot ticket item
  • Cryptominers buying up all the stock or from the scalpers
  • Factories making chips manufactured at bleeding edge processes are at max capacity (there's like a dozen or so line items you could count that want 8nm/7nm/5nm)
Pick your poison, or a combination thereof.
 
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Or, if your tin foil hat is not adjusted quite right, this 'shortage' was an "intentional act" by the manufacturers.
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(stolen from https://www.megatokyo.it/comic/en0033/sony-buys-hell)