I recently built my first computer, a beast of a machine, with a i7 7700k, 16 gigs of DDR4, a SLI plus motherboard (kinda ironic, just wait), the sucker is water cooled, and is overclocked to the breaking point. But here's the thing, I never got a graphics card. Without this graphics card, my computer is just about as good as a potato PC you could find at the flea market (the iGPU isnt that bad honestly). I received this as a Christmas gift, so im not complaining, but as I was searching around for a cheap graphics card to replace the iGPU, because I cant run any new games, even at 720p windowed on lowest settings, I noticed a extreme lack of quality performance cards for sub $100 (I mean atleast double the power of the iGPU - not that hard to achieve). Even on resale sites like Ebay or Neweggs refurbished section, nothing could outperform my iGPU far enough to be worth the price. Most cards that were half the performance of the iGPU were being sold for about $100, the price of a cheap 1050! I did some more looking, and I have found a few used deals, but the lack of GPUs for a decent price is odd. Most of these old cards, you would think, would be priced at about $30, but most are being sold at or above their original MSRP. I did some researching on this, and because of the flood of fake Chinese GPUs and cryptocurrency mining people are basing their prices off a horridly inflated market. And all GPUs that would be within my price range of $100 (whether used or new) are hyperinflated because of cryptocurrency. I love cryptocurrency because it allows a new medium of exchange but it also paves the way for easier business internationally and potentialy a way for me to buy the GPU I currently cant (as i cant get a job, i have to look elsewhere for a way to get a gpu). I can mine cryptocurrency or contribute to a service to receive different types of cryptos, but in the end I wont be making $50 I need to buy a GTX 650 or the $150 I want to buy a 1050 TI, or $500 to buy the godlike 1080. Even on a rig like mine, CPU mining is not profitalbe or feasible for those ammounts of money. Using services like Steemit, I can earn money through writing articles, but as of this writing I have written 1 other article and have 2 followers, and have made only .0001 Steem. I hate cryptocurrencies as much as I love them, and for good reason. The most people that are mining cryptos, the harder it is for others to mine, which makes it extremely difficult to mine on a consumer grade CPU, especially with my lack of a GPU. Also, the more people mining it, the more GPUs that are flying out of retailers warehouses, and the higher the prices of said GPUs go. So its a endlessly rising tower that I cannot climb, with my current hardware atleast. Altcoins and services such as Steemit give me hope of obtaining enough crypto to buy a GPU (I just wanna play Warhammer II at 40 FPS damn it), but until then im stuck to scourging the web for any money making service.