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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**

no_1_dave said:
They spent a lot of money designing a small PCB and the cooling solution for it.
I doubt they did that to then not have many to sell
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They are raking it on AI, 5090 sales are small fry. You can't bag a 5090? nvidia don't care, pay scalper prices for the ones that slip through when Nvidia can be bothered to make some for the gamers out there.
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
They are raking it on AI, 5090 sales are small fry. You can't bag a 5090? nvidia don't care, pay scalper prices for the ones that slip through when Nvidia can be bothered to make some for the gamers out there.
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It's small fry compared to their AI, but it's still a massive chunk of money they make and they're still investing heavily in new forms of DLSS etc
Just because it makes them less money than AI doesn't mean they don't care about it
 
Can't wait for another 30 series experience then, sigh.

I actually got lucky with getting a 3080 FE on launch, but I don't fancy my chances of pulling it off again to get a 5090.

To be honest it is an odd time to launch considering chinese new year, but I can only assume this was trying to avoid the tariffs or something.
 
Rawr said:
I mean I think we were exceptions though. Everyone else I knew couldn't find them for a reasonable price at all.

I think the PS5 was different. They did get stock but you had to be there on the day. I had pre-orders from launch anyway which werent hard to get if you were early enough, could have done the same and sold for profit probably but not a fan of scalping.
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I'm not a fan of large scale scalping or using bots, but grabbing 2 to help offset the price of 1 I take no issue with.
Especially considering the 2 I bought were not bought together, they were separate places and weeks apart, so there was plenty of chance for everybody else.
 
no_1_dave said:
I'm not a fan of large scale scalping or using bots, but grabbing 2 to help offset the price of 1 I take no issue with.
Especially considering the 2 I bought were not bought together, they were separate places and weeks apart, so there was plenty of chance for everybody else.
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I mean yeah I don't massively begrudge people doing that kinda thing, I think the real blame should be on nvidia, amd etc regardless, who even now when there's no lockdown to blame, still have these issues where the launches are often a mess. In lockdown it was unavoidable really, you can't plan around a worldwide crisis like that, so I had a lot more sympathy for the companies having to deal with the troubles it caused. Now I don't really have so much patience to give. If you don't have much stock I'm largely a believer that you should just delay the launch then. The scarcity is what powers scalping anyway. Not to mention it's just frustrating busywork for customers having to wade through all the dying retailer sites because you have both scalpers and genuine customers trying for the stock that largely doesn't exist.
 
You guys reckon you have a better chance buying the FE then than a AIB? I gathered from the past few days it was the exact opposite and FE was like the lottery
 
acs said:
You guys reckon you have a better chance buying the FE then than a AIB? I gathered from the past few days it was the exact opposite and FE was like the lottery
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I think it's going to be difficult to get either. FE supplies might be higher, but higher than single digits kinda means nothing for a country of 68 million or whatever we're at, lol!

Your best hope might be getting an invite to get a FE from nvidia.
 
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Rawr said:
I think it's going to be difficult to get either. FE supplies might be higher, but higher than single digits kinda means nothing for a country of 68 million or whatever we're at, lol!

Your best hope might be getting an invite to get a FE from nvidia.
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How do you get an invite?
 
acs said:
How do you get an invite?
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Have an account with nvidia and apparently they send an invite through the geforce experience now called nvidia app. Don't know any more details than that since I didn't try for the 40 series, I just know some people got invites to buy the 4090 through that after launch.
 
no_1_dave said:
I haven't said they won't sell out, but I imagine they will have quite a few to sell.
A paper launch is no cards available, at all. It won't be that.
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If one looks at rumours about low stock, a lot of the sources said it's because NVIDIA sold most of their stock to system builders, not to retailers. Ergo, the FE could end up in the prebuilds from various vendors and not on NVIDIA webstore. Definitely much less hustle for NVIDIA to move stock in such case.
 
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benjii said:
I'm running on the intergrated graphics on my 9800X3D! I tried to play PoE2 with everything turned down to lowest and FSR on ultra performance, 7fps with a frametime of 150ms! :(
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I tried the integrated GPU a few weeks ago on the 9800x3d by god it pants. Luckily I only really league of legends with hindsight playing on 2015 card which is workstation based which means it slower than it contemporary gaming brethren is like having DLSS 4 and MFG. It says 120 FPS but plays like 30 fps
 
no_1_dave said:
They spent a lot of money designing a small PCB and the cooling solution for it.
I doubt they did that to then not have many to sell
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This your first gpu launch or something? The small pcb and the cooler are wee buns, the gpu is the complicated part and that's what will dictate availability.
 
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