By Darren Allan
Following Nvidia’s advice to retailers in the cause of supporting gamers trying to find a decently priced graphics card, some retail outlets have been making concrete moves to ensure GPUs aren’t being snapped up by cryptocurrency miners – including Micro Center over in the US.
Nvidia advised limiting sales of any individual model of graphics card to two per customer at a maximum (i.e. preventing bulk buying by miners), and Micro Center is doing this, as Tom’s Hardware reports, as well as offering discounts for those buying bundles of components in-store.
In other words, system builders buying other components as well as their graphics card will receive substantial discounts on the bundle, hopefully getting the GPU for close to the actual recommended retail price (or at least well below the current average asking price).
Note that there is quite a lot of anecdotal chatter on Reddit about this, with some folks suggesting you need to be buying an entire system (i.e. power supply, hard drive and so forth – the whole caboodle) to benefit from the discounting on the GPU, although there is apparently some wiggle room.
Others are saying you’re fine with a bundle of the core elements (CPU, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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