I'll DM you, as I think it might be a grey area....
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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**
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So you have gone from a 1060 to a 5090 did you not fancy a 4090 or was it not enough of an uplift for you?I was lucky enough to get one of these within the 30 seconds they were available. It should arrive tomorrow. After basically being a bit obsessed since the 30th at 2pm, I've been smashing F5 on about 20 websites constantly at all hours of the day, and setting up all kinds of mechanisms for early warning. However, I've always been pipped at the post until now. In the end, I succumbed to subscribing to a bot service to give me a fighting chance. If you can't beat them, join them! My wife was also getting fed up with all this GPU talk, so it was either get one, or get divorced!
I'm coming from a 1060, so a well overdue upgrade and one that I want to last a few years, hence the 5090.
I have other pre-orders in place, in addition to a physical Gaming Trio 5080 in-hand. I won't be looking to profit from any of those, merely cancelling/returning once I have the 5090 here with me safe and sound. I'll let you know my thoughts once the new PC is built and everything is fired up.
In the meantime I fully intend to downgrade my level of obsession on this subject from 10 to a mere 3-4, purely so that I can concentrate on other things for a bit.
Good luck to everyone still in the hunt!
What finally tempted you to buy a 5090 when most reviews have been negative.
My aim was a 4090 originally when I started collecting my new PC parts a couple of months ago, but knowing the 50 series was coming out I thought it was a good opportunity. In truth I had settled on the idea of the 5080, especially after the marketing blurb about how it would surpass the 4090, however, as you mention the results/reviews have been luke warm. Still a massive increase from a 1060 of course, but not quite the performance I was expecting. Not being able to have access to multiframe-gen on DLSS was the only thing at that point stopping a 4090 purchase, and of course the rising prices!
I don't want to be upgrading in 2-3 years ideally, so getting as much daylight between existing models and new ones was my aim in the end, hence the 5090. I'm also in a lucky position that my profession is in the technology arena, so I have an opportunity to claim back the VAT but to also offset my tax, meaning that whilst these cards are pricey, some of the sting is removed. My whole build has been circa £8k, so this was a fair chunk of it.
Scratch that, I think you'll need to DM me, as I can't find a way, either because I'm being thick, or because this account is too new for it to be allowed.....I'll DM you, as I think it might be a grey area....
Can any of the mods perma ban this guy?
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We going to be affected either way. The MSRP is gonna increase in the US which will be reflected here in the UK.
To them the £=$ so we gonna be used again to make up for the margins that they gonna lose in the US.
To them the £=$ so we gonna be used again to make up for the margins that they gonna lose in the US.
nVidia, AIBs and resellers will, as is tradition, latch on to any tenuous or perfidious rational to raise prices across all regions (and keep them there), like my wife does when trying to win an argument with me.
oh crap, raised hopes for no reason.
I was lucky enough to get one of these within the 30 seconds they were available. It should arrive tomorrow. After basically being a bit obsessed since the 30th at 2pm, I've been smashing F5 on about 20 websites constantly at all hours of the day, and setting up all kinds of mechanisms for early warning. However, I've always been pipped at the post until now. In the end, I succumbed to subscribing to a bot service to give me a fighting chance. If you can't beat them, join them! My wife was also getting fed up with all this GPU talk, so it was either get one, or get divorced!
I'm coming from a 1060, so a well overdue upgrade and one that I want to last a few years, hence the 5090.
I have other pre-orders in place, in addition to a physical Gaming Trio 5080 in-hand. I won't be looking to profit from any of those, merely cancelling/returning once I have the 5090 here with me safe and sound. I'll let you know my thoughts once the new PC is built and everything is fired up.
In the meantime I fully intend to downgrade my level of obsession on this subject from 10 to a mere 3-4, purely so that I can concentrate on other things for a bit.
Good luck to everyone still in the hunt!
Congrats but I draw the line at paying a scalping service that sends out late notifications to those that don't pay monthly