oldmanbal
2[H]4U
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It's been like this for years. There's always early adopters. When the 1080s, Titan X's, and 980s were released, each of them sold out within 10 minutes of going on sale. I even remember getting the ATI 9700 Pro in the early 2000s, and seeing people state that they couldn't find it for weeks after it's official release.
I ended up getting my 9700pro about a week or two after it came out. I initially bought the 9500, but returned it and bought the full fledged 9700pro cause the performance was so much more of a game changer. It was the first card I owned that I could just max out AA and not even sweat. In all my years of gaming, it was the most impactful graphics card ever released in my opinion, and I've owned sli/cfx every halo card since (even a short foray into the 5970+5870 trifire).