As someone that spent two years waiting to get a PS5 online, I must disagree with you.
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5090 in stock and it looks like it is staying in stock
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Domingo
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Look up in this very thread and the 3-4 other ones just in this forum alone. Make note of how many people have one vs. want one. Take a look at the other tech forums and you'll see the same thing. Take a look at the comments in those Gamers Nexus videos. If it was truly so easy, then there would be no issues, no people complaining, and good 'ol Steve would tell everyone the magical secret to buying one. Showing up an hour before Microcenter opens a couple times per week isn't exactly that big of a deal. Plus, not all of those people camping out on launch day rolled up a week before. The Denver location literally had nobody there until the night before. Even the Tustin location with the big crowd had people rolling up the day before and still getting cards. It was only the super hardcore people that camped for days.
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The fact that so many people want to actually spend up to 3000 USD for a GPU (basically 2 4090s) is still a bit of a sore point to me, but putting that aside, okay waiting for "1 hour before it opens every now and then" is a lot different from literally camping in a tent like some people were doing.
No one says it's easy, it's just that there's something called literally giving up any trace of dignity you might have still had, and... I'm not going to conclude this sentence but you can infer where I stand on this.
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The Arkham games look like garbage without PhysX once you've used it. I was actually pissed when Iron Galaxy nerfed the PhysX effects in Arkham Knight in one of their first patches. The smoke effects in the launch version were the most realistic I have ever seen.
I also don't know about calling something every person with a NVIDIA card could use "niche." You did not need a second card to use it.
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I will never forget the Batman tech demo. The realistic fog, the rain on his suit, the swirling of the papers on the ground when fighting. So much cool tech has been introduced over the years and I sincerely don't understand why they phase them out. I always thought when things progress you build on top of them and not discontinue them. I think what modern games miss are the subtle little details like the Batman stuff that immerse you more into a world than ray tracing and stuff like that. Like, yeah if I ran through this smoke it would react like that, if wind blow the floor with papers all over it the papers would scatter like that... Recently I was playing Stalker 2 and I was walking through the forest and came across a road and I started walking down it then suddenly a small gust of wind blew some leaves around and I was genuinely intrigued and loved that detail.
Think back to the original FEAR and Bad Company 2. FEAR had realistic looking smoke when shooting the walls, and sparks flying when shooting certain things, and little details that really pushed it above your standard "pretty game." Bad Company 2 had great environmental destruction that was fun to mess around with for years. Even the original Red Faction had this cool tech demo called "Glass House" where you could break the glass in the house and it was shatter realistically, and explosives would cause craters and you could "dig" your way around the ground and wall and obstacles by blasting around them... immersive things like that are what really make games memorable to me.
I wish developers would focus more on the little details and environmental queues that one would expect in real life that would suck us into the game world more.
That being said here is the Batman tech demo I mentioned:
View: https://youtu.be/rMJbPGjCEbw?si=aA2FfLQo7vPPMItp
Guess that all depends on how bad you want one and what one's time is worth. These restocks almost always happen during the week. I personally don't ever see myself wanting one so bad to camp out overnight in the cold for merely the chance (not guarantee) of getting one. So i'm losing sleep, i'm away from the comfort of my own home and bed, i'm losing money by having to take time off work, and maybe, just maybe, I'll be allowed to spend 2-3 grand to come home with one.
If I wanted one THAT bad, i'd just head over to Origin PC and spend 6 grand on a custom box with a 5090 already in it
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Yeah I think I'd only want one that bad if I sold my main GPU and had a crappy back up I was running in the mean time. I really can't believe people are using rent money to buy these cards though, that's just the stuff we joke about people who have really poor financial habits.
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People use rent money to buy drugs, hookers, stolen goods, etc. Not that surprising really.
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Oh it's not surprising. Just exceedingly stupid.
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Finally, thank you 5090!
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oh wow! I can run the Innocn at 4k160 native and the 57 at full res 240hz at the same time! That is just something you could not do on the 4090! On the 4090 I had to run both at 120hz! Gayness Eleminated!!!! Worth every penny and i havent even played a game yet lol
Congrats! How much did you pay for it? Was it close to MSRP?
I hope they bring back like an updated version of PhsX that's also backwards compatible for Nvidia 6000 series. But then you'd have to hope Nvidia cared about gamers still instead of building the fastest AI cards possible and then selling whatever leftover silicone surplus as their consumer market cards. That might not happen for years. Hopefully the AI bubble will burst soon as other companies finally put up competitive products to combat Nvidia's near monopoly on that market.
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Niche as in back then it was 50/50 marketshare and not many games used it. I always thought it was good stuff, myself. It did hurt performance a lot back then too.
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Got breast implants on the mind? We're talking about videocards!
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The 5090 is a game changer if your on the samsung 57 UW.....woooooo........loving it!
This is how Nvidia sees us, as numbers. As Gaming GPU purchasers, we're less than 10% of their total revenues.Got breast implants on the mind? We're talking about videocards!
It's no wonder they put AI and corporate customers first and the 5000 series launch has been arguably the worst paper launch in their history.
Thanks, sticker price was listed at $3079.99 and I paid around $3250 out the door tax included. This was after the tariff increase from the original sticker price of $2799.99. For me I was willing to pay that price for a 5090 as I'm upgrading from a 2080ti and moving up to a 4k oled. Also I've been trying for a month to beat the bots online and camped out a few times. Got sick of that bs fast, anyways the other day I had to go to MC to get a new nzxt fan hub as the one I had stoped working. Decided to check out their gpu section before I went up to the registers, and I was shocked that they had 1 astral left, so I bought it. The gpu was the final part I needed to complete my build that I was slowly piecing together since Aug. of last year.
Congrats man. It feels good when a build finally comes together. Enjoy, I'm sure it's a huge uplift over the 2080 Ti.
Way too expensive for my tastes but if I had the budget, I definitely wouldn't mind having the fastest hardware available. From what I understand the Astral model is also the tip top AIB 5090 model money can buy. A lucky find at Microcenter for sure!
A lucky find? Thats the ONLY card i have been seeing people post online. I know who got almost ALL the 5090 dies
I barely missed out on the AORUS Master Ice. This whole experience sucks, lol. The Astral is definitely the most common one I see, though.
These numbers aren’t entirely accurate. Like I said in another thread, it’s hard for gamers to buy cards when they’re not in stock. If everyone who wanted a 50 series card could actually get their hands on one, I’d bet it would be a lot higher than 10%
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You say this as if it were breaking news. Let you in on another tasty industry secret. Not a single one of them give a fuck about end consumers. They all see us as numbers. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, EVGA, Gigabyte,Lian Li, Zotac; ALL OF THEM.
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This thread didn’t age well…
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I've got to admit that is about as "baller" to use the term kids use today for frikkin cool as it gets. No wasted words or time; just pulling out the cash and BAM! Nice play, man!
Well the girlfriend did you a solid. And I think she had her priorities straight. Rent money is more important than having a fancy video card! Sounds like another Win-Win happened at a MicroCenter!
Those numbers were for 2024 so they are accurate for the final totals of that year.
And Nvidia made sure to stop making more 4000 series leading up to this launch so there would be no more stock left for people to buy.
They did this because last product cycle people were buying 3080's and 3090's instead when they found the price hikes on the 4000 series to be too much to stomach.
All of this has been deliberately done by Nvidia to create scarcity to force people to buy 5000 series, no matter how overpriced it might be.
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I was joking about how you wrote "silicone" instead of "silicon"
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There's a lot more copium going around than video cards
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Online availability is gone.
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From what I can tell the Denver Microcenter's website has never shown any 5090's in stock. No clue if that's just that branch or what, though. That location only shows something as in-stock if it has physically been on the shelf for a certain amount of time. I learned that back in the 900-series days, and it seems to still be the case.
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I check there regularly there too. My best friend lives in Denver and were I to see something in stock I'd definitely have him check for me, but like yourself have yet to see any 5090s in stock.
Can’t force people to buy something that isn’t available
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Can somebody please help Baaasha get a 5090??? He said he's willing to pay a $100 finder fee....I cant believe nobody has stepped up on this offer to help a member in need! You could start planning your families future and retire to Mexico with that cool hundee and you would be doing a community service as well.....think about it and please help him!
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I pinged MSI discord peeps and they were kind enough to consider selling me 5090s at cost as they had spares. I didn’t end up buying but you might want to consider that route if you are desperate. However, you will pay additional PPGS and shipping fees.
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Super pissed my buddy can't go.
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Or fb marketplace. Story seems sus but congrats to him either way. It’s probably hard to admit to paying the sticker shock prices for these retail. Also microcenter can lookup a receipt digitally in most cases unless someone without a account paid cash.
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Tell me you've never lived with a hot irrational woman, without ever having lived with a hot irrational woman. My hot wife got so pissed one time she threw a shoe at my head, but having cat like reflexes I was able to succussfully duck out the way but unfortunately my 5k tv screen was destroyed by it....... whats that saying.....a scourned woman is fucking hell? All she could see was red and her rent money was spent on that stupid thing.
By the way the 5090 is fucking UHHH MAAAYYY ZIIING! Its a total game changer for us retard 57" ultrawide users!
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