Soldato
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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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER THREAD!
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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
I think you are about to have find out what a paper launch is.
Soldato
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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This is so true.
Soldato
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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Soldato
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.
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.
I think you are going to be brought back to reality on the 30th
A paper launch can also mean very limited availability. That being said, I hope you are right.
Soldato
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.
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.
I think FE supplies are likely to be much higher. Nvidia tends to stack the deck in their favour for launches.
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?
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.
Associate
They had to make sure every youtuber had one instead for free.