As with the Bitcoin mining craze, when it was profitable to mine with graphics cards a few years ago, miners bought graphics cards by the thousand, and this caused supply shortages of specific models. The exact same thing is happening with models particularly adept at mining Ethereum, such as AMD's Radeon RX 580, which has disappeared from many online stores and often retails for considerably higher prices than it cost at launch.
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That only means the card marketers are thrown off their game cause its no longer about "how many pc's exist". However with board makers coming out with 19 slots for GPU's - you can bet the demand is going to be filled.
Exactly.
Many people are saying (yet again) that mining is now dead or dying - but if the big Mobo suppliers are paying a lot of money to design/build new Mobo's for miners - that sort of gives a sign that they think it's here for a bit longer :)