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5090 in stock and it looks like it is staying in stock

JavaLava said:
I haven't updated that.... I actually do have a 4090, got it last summer (going to give it to the wife...only reason I considered a 5090).
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Any chance you could post the subject header for the email? This way I can make a rule to give me a massive alert so we dont miss it!

Still trying to get a 5090 myself.

I did a B&H waitlist on the 5080's not realizing it sends you a waitlist notification and just got 4 emails today saying I can buy those cards but it expires in 24 hrs so contemplating buying and posting here to help people or just let it go as I sold my 4090 and REALLY want a founders edition!
 
So double penalized for downgrading to a 5080, would probably have gotten the vpa email if still on the 4090...anyhow bigger fish to fry need to sell a home.
 
JavaLava said:
I haven't updated that.... I actually do have a 4090, got it last summer (going to give it to the wife...only reason I considered a 5090).
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is the alert in the email or on the computer? Just wondering if the app gives it to you as I am travelign
 
zamardii12 said:
When did you sign up for the Priority Invites?
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Probably within 8 hours of the announcement? I saw it later that evening when scrolling the news while watching tv.

The email subject was "Your Verified Priority Access for the GeForce RTX 5090" from the FROM address of "gaming@nvgaming.nvidia.com" for whats its worth. I didnt get any alert in GeForce itself...doubt that...pretty sure its an email only
 
Is there anyone local to the Dallas Microcenter? I really need an Asus Astral 5090 OC and they have it in stock. Can you purchase it for me and ship it to me ? I will pay $100 + cost of the card + shipping. Got in line in BB on the drop today for the Astral TWICE and it still said "SOLD OUT" was so fking pissed. It's now almost TWO MONTHS since release and I still can't secure this particular GPU.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help.

Please DM.
 
It is diabolical (and good, I suppose) that they are making people show up in person to buy these cards.
 
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kirbyrj said:
Not surprising when a "$1999" card is selling for $3700+. I mean you can buy Astrals all day long.
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Even the best case scenario is about 2600-2700 (before tax btw) for these AIB models in the real world. Wish they actually released models close to MSRP, but that's the way things are going... lots of incentive to maximize margins.
 
kirbyrj said:
Not surprising when a "$1999" card is selling for $3700+. I mean you can buy Astrals all day long.
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I don't comment anymore on these 5090 threads as I am just at a loss for the willingness of enthusiasts to pay these crazy prices. I swear I've never seen a consumer group so willing to pay so much for so little. I myself am no longer a pc gaming enthusiast as I don't enjoy taking it up the arse from NV!
 
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cesarioFL71 said:
I don't comment anymore on these 5090 threads as I am just at a loss for the willingness for enthusiasts to pay these crazy prices. I swear I've never seen a consumer group so willing to pay so much for so little. I myself am no longer a pc gaming enthusiast as I don't enjoy taking it up the arse from NV!
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In this case, the Asus tax is obscene.
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
Even the best case scenario is about 2600-2700 (before tax btw) for these AIB models in the real world. Wish they actually released models close to MSRP, but that's the way things are going... lots of incentive to maximize margins.
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This is $1,000 more than that though. I get it that AIBs have to make money and Ngreedia didn't leave them much margin, but I'm not going to pay an extra $1,000 just because it says Asus on it.
 
kirbyrj said:
This is $1,000 more than that though. I get it that AIBs have to make money and Ngreedia didn't leave them much margin, but I'm not going to pay an extra $1,000 just because it says Asus on it.
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Yeah I was more just saying that even a 600$ markup is already crazy. Like 100-200 for a 5-10% markup, sure kind of okay. Maybe even 300 for 15% (even though that's already starting to get up there). But at min the price I got offered was like 2600-2700 (before tax, so that would be nearly 3k with it). I'm with cesario, I don't understand how people can justify this. But it's "copium" when you keep pointing the insanity of it out.

And then your case of 3700 is just... absurdity. ASUS is always the worst about it, too. On the flipside, working for ASUS must at least be nice. They try to maximize margins, and people still just buy them on reputation alone, so they must have fairly cushy jobs...
 
cesarioFL71 said:
I don't comment anymore on these 5090 threads as I am just at a loss for the willingness of enthusiasts to pay these crazy prices. I swear I've never seen a consumer group so willing to pay so much for so little. I myself am no longer a pc gaming enthusiast as I don't enjoy taking it up the arse from NV!
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So you've never seen car enthusiasts, or boat enthusiasts, or plane enthusiasts? In fact there are a ton of other hobbies people enjoy and spend much more money on than PC gaming. To act like PC gaming is somehow more expensive than any other enthusiast hobby is just fucking laughable.
 
ZeroBarrier said:
So you've never seen car enthusiasts, or boat enthusiasts, or plane enthusiasts? In fact there are a ton of other hobbies people enjoy and spend much more money on than PC gaming. To act like PC gaming is somehow more expensive than any other enthusiast hobby is just fucking laughable.
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Enthusiasts also have always been the ones to pay those "crazy prices" as well so I'm not sure why that would come as a shock. And just like you said that goes for anything and not just PC gaming.
 
cesarioFL71 said:
I swear I've never seen a consumer group so willing to pay so much for so little
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I think audiophile would beat this easily... new car buyer got used too it too ($2000 for some elo smartconnectGPS...)

Or CPU enthusiast, 9800x3d as a 70.6 mm fancy die and people paid $480-500 for those, 5090 has 10.6x time that amount of fancy die (750mm), significantly cheaper per mm if you can get it under $4000, 9800x3d come with a 122mm io die with it but the 5090 come with 32gb of very fast ram, small high-end motherboard quality level pcb, high power management and a very fancy cooling solution.

It is not cheap but it is 105 TFlops of FP32, 1.8 tb/s of memory bandwith of compute, not really similar to expensive audiophile network router for cleaner TCP packet... or 192 khz audio, it is actual high amount of compute being bought
 
ZeroBarrier said:
So you've never seen car enthusiasts, or boat enthusiasts, or plane enthusiasts? In fact there are a ton of other hobbies people enjoy and spend much more money on than PC gaming. To act like PC gaming is somehow more expensive than any other enthusiast hobby is just fucking laughable.
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The difference is you're buying a $60,000 car for $100,000 to use your analogy. You'd sit there and say I'm not paying that or I'll wait for a deal. Dealers aren't marking up cars $40,000 and expecting hits like Asus is.
 
kirbyrj said:
The difference is you're buying a $60,000 car for $100,000 to use your analogy. You'd sit there and say I'm not paying that or I'll wait for a deal. Dealers aren't marking up cars $40,000 and expecting hits like Asus is.
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Actually, luxury cars regularly go well above msrp and have huge wait lists.
 
kirbyrj said:
The difference is you're buying a $60,000 car for $100,000 to use your analogy. You'd sit there and say I'm not paying that or I'll wait for a deal. Dealers aren't marking up cars $40,000 and expecting hits like Asus is.
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Did you miss the enthusiast portion of this whole argument? Enthusiast aren't shopping around for the best bang for buck. They go for top performance at whatever the cost in almost every single case.

You don't want to spend enthusiast money on a hobby? Then don't become an enthusiast and stick with a product that's not enthusiast grade. Alternitavely, you can get a model that's a few years old that enthusiast aren't in the market for anymore.

But to come to an enthusiast website and cry because you don't agree with a price? I got to tell you, this isn't the hobby for you. Maybe you'd be happier scrapbooking.
 
ZeroBarrier said:
Did you miss the enthusiast portion of this whole argument? Enthusiast aren't shopping around for the best bang for buck. They go for top performance at whatever the cost in almost every single case.

You don't want to spend enthusiast money on a hobby? Then don't become an enthusiast and stick with a product that's not enthusiast grade. Alternitavely, you can get a model that's a few years old that enthusiast aren't in the market for anymore.

But to come to an enthusiast website and cry because you don't agree with a price? I got to tell you, this isn't the hobby for you. Maybe you'd be happier scrapbooking.
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Thanks, internet toughguy, I think anyone who thinks $3700 for an Asus 5090 is a "normal" price is out of their fucking minds. It has nothing to do with "enthusiast" or not. $1700 over Nvidia's FE pricing is robbery plain and simple. If you value a 5090 at up to around $2500-2700...I might agree with you. I've been around here long enough to hear "blah blah blah, enthusiast, blah blah blah" more than just this once. There's enthusiast and then there's stupid. $3700 for the Asus Astral is in the later category.
 
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ZeroBarrier said:
So you've never seen car enthusiasts, or boat enthusiasts, or plane enthusiasts? In fact there are a ton of other hobbies people enjoy and spend much more money on than PC gaming. To act like PC gaming is somehow more expensive than any other enthusiast hobby is just fucking laughable.
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Of course...heck I have a sailboat and a motorcycle. The difference is I'm not paying 4k to play frikkin video games. If 2025 was the video game equivalent of 2007? Maybe, I could justify paying 1500.000-2k......maybe, but even then I'd have my reservations. That said, most pc releases these days suck a##. At some point it's got to make sense financially for me. PC gaming and it's prices have entered the realm of retarded and I just can't go there. Next round what are we going to be paying for the latest and greatest gpu? 4k? 5k? MSRP? C'mon man, you can't be seriously defending paying 5k to play frikkin video games?
 
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kirbyrj said:
Thanks, internet toughguy, I think anyone who thinks $3700 for an Asus 5090 is a "normal" price is out of their fucking minds. It has nothing to do with "enthusiast" or not. $1700 over Nvidia's FE pricing is robbery plain and simple. If you value a 5090 at up to around $2500-2700...I might agree with you. I've been around here long enough to hear "blah blah blah, enthusiast, blah blah blah" more than just this once. There's enthusiast and then there's stupid. $3700 for the Asus Astral is in the later category.
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This I will agree with. Asus just thinks so highly of themselves and expects their consumers to do the same I guess.
 
GoldenTiger said:
You don't need to have the halo. That's like saying you need a $7k projector just to watch "frikkin" movies.
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Except, this specific thread is the "halo" thread hence why we are having this conversation about "enthusiasts" paying crazy prices for a 5090 AKA "HALO CARD"? I thought this was H.A.R.D.O.C.P.? What other cards really matter except the high end and "halo" cards?
 
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