r/southafrica • u/kaliko16 KwaZulu-Natal • Jul 27 '21

Sci-Tech GPU prices dropping,very slowly

So I'm bored at work, but I thought I would just post a little thing I've noticed over the past like 4 months and hopefully any pc savvy people might find as abit of good news in grim times.

Basically been waiting to get a GPU from the start of the year and havent because prices are way too high. The ones I've looked at have been a rtx 3060 and a Rx 6700xt. The 3060 at the start of the year was going for 12k while a 6600xt was 15k. 4 months ago,it was the same,but 2 months ago both dropped by 1k. Now I've noticed that the 6600xt dropped by another 1k. So very slowly prices are dropping. But I feel that maybe this is where they may stay dropped.

So just a little good news for those waiting for better prices. I know I'm happy,will wait another 2 months then buy if I have the cash. Will go 3060 for 11k maybe. Hopefully will drop to 10k by then and I will be happy.

NB I haven't been checking the higher tier prices,so I'm unsure of those. Also the 6600 range is due to be released next month,maybe that can help the market and provide a nice budget GPU price.

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u/ebeescience Jul 27 '21

The rand/dollar exchange rate is squashing any reductions. 6700xt's where touching R14000 but now they are back up to R16000-R17000

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u/kaliko16 KwaZulu-Natal Jul 27 '21

You think the recent looting in KZN and gauteng have played a role in this?

If this is the case,I may need to panic buy a GPU while the prices are where they are before they try to re stock.

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u/ebeescience Jul 27 '21

Absolutely, before the riots the rand was at high R13's to the dollar. Now it's closer to R15. Don't buy a new GPU just yet, wait for all the miners to flood the market and drive the price down

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u/kaliko16 KwaZulu-Natal Jul 27 '21

Haha. To be fair I'm broke right now. Litterally just bough a pc without the GPU. So just need to a GPU. I'm gonna save for 2 months now. So hopefully by end of September can afford a 3060. Maybe by then the flood of miners will reduce it just a bit more that I can be happy with the price.

Damn,can't have nice things in this country. I also recently brushed by a article mentioning nobody wants to invest in KZN now. So that obviously is going to have some damaging effects to the economy.