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

plazyma said:
My 5th in queue 5090 solid non OC is now dispatched from the queue site and is arriving tomorrow for only £2099
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Pleae please please report back once you have it in hand. I've not seen any info on Zotac solid cards (just one terrible YT review of the AMP Extreme version). The Zotac cards are the smallest and only ones that may.... fit my existing case.
 
Rogueywon said:
My suspicion is that what's happened here is that OCUK ended up paying significantly more per card than the queue place took per card in its pre-orders.

When the queue place opened up its queue, people spotted the following day that it had reserved for itself the right to increase the price of pre-orders and give people the choice between paying more and losing their queue position. There was a fair old outcry over this and also some questions over its legality in the case of early pre-orders from before the T&Cs were updated. In the face of this, the queues place has clearly taken a decision not to increase prices - nobody has thus far reported being asked to pay more for their pre-order.

But this leaves the queue place in the invidious position where it can't actually order (m)any cards without making a loss on them. And no, the interest on deposits wouldn't even close to covering the losses it would have to make - people dramatically overestimate how much interest it'll be earning (at absolute most, around £10 per pre-order so far).
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Honestly though, it's like a lose lose, this is why they should have taken a standard normal deposit and price finalised upon delivery yet for some reason they wanted that interest money or just greed. It's incredible how unprofessionally they've handled this launch. When OCUK get over 60 of the cards and they get none and they keep stringing on their consumers. I don't doubt that they will get their cards in time, but I'm certain almost no one would have preordered if they realised the true ETA of their cards (6 months+)
 
Dave2150 said:
'Fixing' it does mean lowering some of the other fans on the card though, not just the rear fan, which will impact thermals/performance a tiny amount. At least according to Debaurer's video, where the rear and middle are linked in GPUTweak software.

I don't think that's good enough for a card costing £1000-1500 more than the mostly identical performance of the MSRP cards myself.

ASUS did such a good job with the 4090 Strix, but let themselves down with the Astral.

I still think the Astral looks the best card visually, for a display case type system.
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That's if you don't want to download the new bios, with the new bios you don't need a custom fan curve
 
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