Prices are not normal yet. I just looked up a 8 GB RX580 selling for $269 on New Egg. Before the run-up in prices this last spring you could get the same card for $209 and sometimes on sale for $199. I have invoices from that time period to back this up so I am not just succumbing to false memory. I have stopped building new rigs for the time being and letting the market sort itself out. I think the premiums on hardware need to come down quite a bit yet from their highs and maybe when this has happens I will take another look.

Also, similar to the poster above me, if I were to build a new rig I will probably go with Nvidia for their better power efficiency and more flexibility with which algorithm you can run. Once payback periods start pushing out to a year or longer, you cannot ignore such factors like you could back in the days where anything you bought could be paid off in 3 months.