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NVIDIA 5000 SERIES

harmattan said:
It warms my heart, as an American who has dealt with cross-country shipping and customs in the UK for years (personal and business), think they can just rock up, buy a "cheaper" video card in the US, and get back through customs without risking getting caught. It's adorably naive.

A video card, unlike a laptop which you can possibly claim as a personal electronic item, is subject to customs duty. There's no way around it, and customs officers know exactly what to look for. You "might" get through, but if not, you're going to pay duty AND a hefty fine enough to ruin your year.

If this wasn't the case, I'd be porting hardware back and forth 5-6 times a year on my trips back-forth.
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That's not the worst part.

The worst part is if you do get caught you have a red flag on you for the rest of your life, you will never go through a security checkpoint anywhere in the world ever again and not get pulled to be searched.

Don't get me wrong, it's a big if, but you only need to be caught once.
 
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Who feels sorry for the AIBs...



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MSI Says it Won't Have Enough RTX 50 Series GPUs on 30th January Due to Insufficient Supply from NVIDIA​


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MSI Confirms Shortage Of NVIDIA RTX 50 Series GPUs, Initial Batch To Have Limited SKUs

MSI has confirmed that it won't have enough RTX 50 series GPUs at the time of launch due to an insufficient supply from NVIDIA.
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RavenXXX2 said:
Who feels sorry for the AIBs...



GiOYfOubcAIZYak



MSI Says it Won't Have Enough RTX 50 Series GPUs on 30th January Due to Insufficient Supply from NVIDIA​


wccftech.com

MSI Confirms Shortage Of NVIDIA RTX 50 Series GPUs, Initial Batch To Have Limited SKUs

MSI has confirmed that it won't have enough RTX 50 series GPUs at the time of launch due to an insufficient supply from NVIDIA.
wccftech.com wccftech.com
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The 5080 MSRP is basically £1200, and the 5090 MSRP is £2300. It was always going to be this way.
 
Hostile_18 said:
I very much doubt a 5090ti personally. They have maxed out everything on the 5nm node, there is no room on the power side without a second connector (which would be madness). Throwing cores and bandwidth at it is giving significantly less and less performance gain.

5080ti I could totally see happening though. Not sure about the vram though as others, as that would lessen demand for the 5090.
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I was called a "******* moron" because I said there probably wouldn't be a 4090ti/super. I had countless people on reddit claim there would be etc.
I reckon it will be the same this year, no ti/super just 5090 till the 6000 comes out, but a 5080 super after a year or so 100%, the gap is too huge not to include one.
 
Monkeyboysteve said:
I was called a "******* moron" because I said there probably wouldn't be a 4090ti/super. I had countless people on reddit claim there would be etc.
I reckon it will be the same this year, no ti/super just 5090 till the 6000 comes out, but a 5080 super after a year or so 100%, the gap is too huge not to include one.
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If it makes you feel better I was told along the same lines when I said stock would be limited and sell out quickly.

The burden of been right is sometimes tough to bear!
 
D3K said:
Will be in the USA soon so can pick a 5090 up for £1600 best cast with no sales tax, or more like £1700 in one of the other states.

It's still not enough of a saving to warrant an upgrade from 4090. Gonna grit teeth and hope that they make MFG backwards compatible with older gens.
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you think there will be 5090s around for $1600?? What are you smoking?
the $2000 is already before sales tax, where on earth are you getting the $1600 from? Also funny you think there will be any in stock at all in the next 6 months.
 
Hostile_18 said:
If it makes you feel better I was told along the same lines when I said stock would be limited and sell out quickly.

The burden of been right is sometimes tough to bear!
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Yep. Very similar to these very forums a few months back where people were saying the days of limited PC stock were over and it was only due to covid and the mining boom etc, and that upcoming CPU's like the 9800x3d and the 5000 series would be plentiful. anyone that said otherwise were moaned at for being negative. hmmmm funny how that one turned out.
 
Monkeyboysteve said:
you think there will be 5090s around for $1600?? What are you smoking?
the $2000 is already before sales tax, where on earth are you getting the $1600 from? Also funny you think there will be any in stock at all in the next 6 months.
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I think he means £1600 at a conversion rate of 1.25, like you say however there's sales tax to go on top of that which differs per state.
 
jrodga2k5 said:
I think he means £1600 at a conversion rate of 1.25, like you say however there's sales tax to go on top of that which differs per state.
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He's not adding anything, I covered a 6% sales tax with the £1700 value, but there are states with 0 sales tax
 
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D3K said:
Will be in the USA soon so can pick a 5090 up for £1600 best cast with no sales tax, or more like £1700 in one of the other states.

It's still not enough of a saving to warrant an upgrade from 4090. Gonna grit teeth and hope that they make MFG backwards compatible with older gens.
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So you're going to wrap a 5090 in a condom and put it up your bum. Customs might suspect your John Cleese walk. Good luck
 
RavenXXX2 said:
He says 240hz experience, omiting the fact that does not apply to the feel of 240hz. For me the disconnect from seeing 240hz with input of 100hz would be jarring.
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Until I feel it for myself, I'm not going to know one way or the other. And even if I do end up liking it I'm in the 0.1% who is probably on an OLED Display and at 480Hz/1440p so my base framerates could be the very best scenario for the 5090.

Which is exactly why I want to try it out for myself and not just blindly trust the opinions of those who got free 5090's

Even if the commentary has been positive/negative in equal measure, for a myriad of reasons.

He does report the unpleasant latency at the lower base frame rates as you'd expect, but there does seem to be a cutoff where some slight extra latency vs more smoothness comes into play and people prefer the smoothness for the most part as it's not hindering the feel of game as much as perhaps we'd expect.

I was just as interested in him being able to push the game at 8K and 16K, that'd be fun for older titles / emulators potentially.
 
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