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

Good thing - My phone has been pinging quite a few times today for 5090 drops.
It definitely seems that more and more are arriving.

Just retailers are scalping the cards too which is the problem - But then they sell out instantly at £2600 for cards which were meant to be MSRP.
 
Yeah there was a £2,400 Gigabyte OC that was available for a few seconds somewhere today which would have been perfect. But the site went down.
 
RS61 said:
Having only 575W is going to drive me absolutely nuts for the next 2 years :cry:
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Nothing a shunt mod won't sort.
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So I think OCUK should do this, when the Astrals come in next week, after the pre orders are fulfilled, rather than putting it on the web and becoming a 1st come 1st serve basis we all know the bots will get them all, look at yesterdays amp extreme drop, they went in seconds

I think the Astrals should be sold to verified accounts or in a way that doesn't go to the bots

The astral is the most desired 50 series card and ppl will pay over the odds for them, but question is how to verify the legitimacy
 
RS61 said:
I managed to snag the Palit. It's definitely not the card I want, especially at that price, but if it overclocks well and is stable then I don't actually mind. What's the practical reality of returns at Overclockers, if I open and install it, can I still return it after a few days?
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Jono8 said:
OCUK says they've sold 3 Asus 5080 ROG ASTRAL todays for £1699.

£1699...for a card only 10-15% faster than the previous one that was ~£800 most of last year...

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It's bananas. The world has gone mad. In addition to, as you state, paying twice as much for 15% more performance of what you could have owned a year ago, that card is going to drop in resale value like a brick.

But I guess if you need a card now and it needs to be a top-tier 5080 for some reason...
 
anyways i have been posting on this forum on a daily basis since the jensen 50 series reveal, finally 2morow I will receive my amp extreme 5090 and will close this chapter for another 2 years until the 60 series,

I did the same for the 20 30 and 40 series and its actually fun to discuss the GPU situation, everyone has a different story to tell

I prematurely sold my 4090 6 weeks ago and then realised I had no GPU to game with, I had to borrow a GPU then return it, then find another GPU only to realise it was busted, did an RMA on that which is ongoing, so tomorrow god willing I will have a 5090
 
Sense check- much difference between 5090 Palit GR and 5090 Asus TUF in your opinions? TUF marketing 'fancy' capacitors etc, but, really? I will put on a water block (when available) so temps/fans/noise not really a worry in the long run, and Heatkiller water block for Palit maybe edges the Alphacool one for the TUF in looks. Cheers.
 
I think all the prices are going to go up even more if the tariffs in the US come into effect (particularly on china). Companies are going to spread the increased cost out because the US market is just too big. We are gonna get rekt
 
been waiting 6 days on a refund on a card i ordered wrong now.. i reordered the right one thats on its way. Hopefully the refund goes through for the first one tomorrow...taking its time
 
jaju123 said:
I think all the prices are going to go up even more if the tariffs in the US come into effect (particularly on china). Companies are going to spread the increased cost out because the US market is just too big. We are gonna get rekt
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That's not really how it works. For them to spread things around like that by limiting US price rises would likely mean selling at a loss in the US. It doesn't matter how big the US market is - selling at a loss is not something that will happen (and a bigger market is worse in those terms). If US tariffs really do come in and really do hit GPUs (neither of which is really a given), then prices will increase in the US. At some point, price elasticity will start to limit demand there, which will mean more cards being shipped to the rest of the world. Nvidia could try increasing prices in the rest of the world to offset lost revenue from the US, but those same price elasticities will still applies elsewhere in the world.

Edit: What you need to remember here is that it is reasonable to assume that Nvidia is already pricing globally at the point it thinks will maximise profit. If US tariffs mean it can no longer do that in the US, it's going to make things worse for Nvidia if they throw off the balance in the rest of the world as well.
 
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Rogueywon said:
That's not really how it works. For them to spread things around like that by limiting US price rises would likely mean selling at a loss in the US. It doesn't matter how big the US market is - selling at a loss is not something that will happen (and a bigger market is worse in those terms). If US tariffs really do come in and really do hit GPUs (neither of which is really a given), then prices will increase in the US. At some point, price elasticity will start to limit demand there, which will mean more cards being shipped to the rest of the world. Nvidia could try increasing prices in the rest of the world to offset lost revenue from the US, but those same price elasticities will still applies elsewhere in the world.

Edit: What you need to remember here is that it is reasonable to assume that Nvidia is already pricing globally at the point it thinks will maximise profit. If US tariffs mean it can no longer do that in the US, it's going to make things worse for Nvidia if they throw off the balance in the rest of the world as well.
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It would be selling at a loss in the US but it would be subsidised by the rest of us. And it's probably AIBs that are more affected than this than Nvidia themselves, depending where the FE cards are assembled. Companies will have a choice between lowering demand significantly in the US by increasing prices there, or spreading out the demand loss a bit across multiple locations and subsidiaries. I think we will have to see what happens here.
 
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