The midrange graphics-card market may finally be cooling off
As any PC enthusiast knows, it's been infuriatingly difficult to purchase a midrange graphics card over the past few months. The insane demand for cryptocurrency mining power has swept up every GeForce GTX 1060, Radeon RX 570, and Radeon RX 580 that Nvidia and AMD can turn out, and the black hole of demand has even warped GeForce GTX 1070 prices. Time after time this year, we've crossed our fingers hoping that one event or another in the cryptocurrency world would be the one to make midrange graphics card prices sane again, but those hopes have been repeatedly dashed.
Recent regulatory changes in China have shut down cryptocurrency exchanges in the country , though, and that move appears to have been the needle sharp enough to finally hole the Bitcoin and Ethereum balloons. ( Ed. postscript: turns out a difficulty bomb for Ethereum isn't helping, either.) ...