Not sure if this has already been mentioned on here yet(in the GPU market sense) but I was reading about China's crackdown on bitcoin mining.
https://www.wired.com/story/china-bitcoin-mining-exodus/
There was a video on the article I first read but I can't seem to find it again. However, the picture above is from that video. Notice the Skyjack, necessary for the many levels stacked ontop of each other. This quote had me even more annoyed:
“This is the stock for you. It hasn’t even started mining bitcoin.”
No wonder nobody could get a decent price on a GPU for years, that was the first thought I had on seeing the scale of it. Not even using them yet either...
I'm still not getting my hopes up too much but there might be some good news for PC gamers on the horizon(and me with my ageing R9 280) :
Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin
We could start seeing a trickle down effect of prices falling in the UK:
GPU price trend chart
Then again, someone else might fill the void left by the Chinese exodus and prices go back up again.