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One small problem, MSI afterburner not support undervolt for my 1070. I enable all necessary settings in options, but anyway voltage is inactive. =(

you run windows 11? I heard microsoft won't support windows 10 wifi 7

Yep, straight swap. Driver automatically installed by Windows but I opted to get the drivers from Intel. I can't tell if there's some changes in performance since I still use WiFi 6 router, will see when the Velop Pro 7 arrives.

You got me there brother. I was surprised they even lowered the prices back down in the first place since it was at loss to them. This goes for pretty much everything so everyone is pretty much stupid in today's world of buying anything not made by onesself. Edit: This is like the only time I wish I would have bought a 3 year warranty.

Now just is not a good time to spend money on computer stuff. Everything is a poor value, much of what is being sold is garbage and the desirable parts are either not available or marked up 50 to 100% more than their actual value, and marked up more than that with scalper scum. It is happening only because people buying at those crazy jacked up prices are cooperating and allowing themselves to get screwed. Everyone is in business to make money, but not all businesses are on a mission to screw everyone dumb enough to go along with their price gouging program. Businesses that take it up a notch or two and charge the maximum amount that stupid people are willing to pay do not deserve to remain in business. The world would be a better place without them and the stupid people they call customers. I could easily sell either of my 4090s for more than what I paid for them, but I wouldn't have enough money to buy something equal or better. I'd have to add more money or downgrade, or both add money and downgrade.

From what I see... Asus increased the prices for the 5090's upwards after the tax was preached (Astral went up quite a lot) and that is reflected in the Asus estore prices. Then expect the higher prices also should be included for the lower end SKUs. Maybe I'm wrong. But I think the prices is with the preliminary tax on Asus estore. So MC should be on same level.

No worries. I'll play it safe and wait for a more reasonable deal for your revision of card to show up on eBay. As for Goofish, it seems like a lot of people had headaches trying to buy something from their storefront, sometimes not receiving the correct item or having to go through a proxy due to their international payment method not working. I appreciate the feedback. Thanks to your advice I feel much more informed now. Hopefully I'll be able to track one down soon and maybe use this thread to report my findings!

And now you understand why they are taking a loss. This may change in the near future, but those people that were able to buy at MSRP or near price were really happy. Hmmm. Doesthismeans MSRP cards willbe $825 witht the tariff? And the custom Asus cards at $1000 will be $1250 without scalping? Not sure, but if they have to pay more then the cost is 100% past on to the customer. How much to the customer is based on projected margins I would gather.

I know. And I see it in the stores here home compared to other countries. What I meant... Is the $999 price also the same on the Asus US store? And from what I mean, MC don't increase over Asus store prices. Edit. Confirmed. Asus estore price is $999.99 - But of course there is no cards to buy.

You are forgetting. Companies are in the market to make money, not break even my friend. So they have their own base markup price. This seems to be the part everyone keeps forgetting about. MSRP is also on a sliding scale. due to what is going on in the world. And people selling these things are not going to just constantly take a loss to please the masses. They have people to feed as well. @Papusan I had quite the conversations with people in the know today and it was a bit enlighting. Also, Santa Clara store is on hold because of the city not honoring something the store had in place before they bought the building back.

Hmmm. Doesthismeans MSRP cards willbe $825 witht the tariff? And the custom Asus cards at $1000 will be $1250 without scalping? Edit. The 5070 Ti TUF gaming OC is $973 here home without the 25% Norwegian tax. The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5070 Ti AORUS Master is for comparison $1023 without the 25% Norwegian tax. Gigabyte has taken over the ROG tax.

The ones that were supposed to be marked at 749.99 were indeed 749.99 and they took a loss in doing so. They had cards in a few ranges below 950.00. Mine was 999 though. You can thank tariffs and how much MC paid for the cards for the price increase, but MC talked it over with corporate and went ahead and lowered certain cards back to what they were set for MSRP. Those cards sold around 5:30 am this morning. I was there for something else and they were like you missed it. LOL Then I came back for some other parts and one of the guys said a truck just showed up. So I asked and they gave me a voucher. Told me they only had the Tuff card. I said i'll take it for now. The guy behind me was like...Wait, what, they have cards. And quickly bought one.

The TUF is a $1000 card... Same as 5080 MSRP https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-tuf-oc/

Did Microcenter have it priced correctly(under $800) or are they selling it for 5080 MSRP prices since everyone is selling 5080 for at or above 5090 MSRP price?

how can this possible.

I agree, I have found the extra Dell software to be more "unnecessary fluff" than helpful and I always install the minimum that I can get away with. The only things I can think of is Dell Power Manager so that you can change the "thermal mode" without having to go to the BIOS, and Dell Optimizer is unfortunately required to set some settings for the integrated audio Realtek/Maxx setup.

Walked in about 4:15 pm and happened to grab this while getting stuff for my customers. Edit: Well this card definitely has some overclocking room. I will stay that much. https://www.3dmark.com/search#advanced?test=sw P&cpuId=&gpuId=1696&gpuCount=0&gpuType=ALL&deviceType=ALL&storageModel=ALL&showRamDisks=false&memoryChannels=0&country=&scoreType=overallScore&hofMode=false&showInvalidResults=false&freeParams=&minGpuCoreClock=&maxGpuCoreClock=&minGpuMemClock=&maxGpuMemClock=&minCpuClock=&maxCpuClock=

Whats the specs of you machine ? I would be aprehensive updating the bios too much either upgrade or dowgrade. What i was taught is if it works dont mess with it unless you are having issues

Looks like they are going to try to cram a 5070 Ti up everyone's tailpipes. It seems like an inordinately aggressive marketing campaign is playing out for something that isn't very special. For many that will be a big upgrade over whatever antiquated or under-spec'd low budget setup they are updating. But, it just feels kind of scummy that the middle-ground mediocre belly-button mama's boy GPU is sucking all of the air out of the room.

And where will all the cards go out from the AIB partners? Directly to the gamers? Some yes. But not ALL. Better that the AIB partners get more $$$$ out of the cake? They won't change. It's in their blood... It's called "GREED".

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Flow-Z13-GZ302EA-Convertible-Review-AMD-s-Strix-Halo-GPU-is-neck-and-neck-with-the-RTX-4070-Laptop.963266.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-AI-Max-395-Analysis-Strix-Halo-to-rival-Apple-M4-Pro-Max-with-16-Zen-5-cores-and-iGPU-on-par-with-RTX-4070-Laptop.963274.0.html https://www.ultrabookreview.com/70442-amd-strix-halo-laptops/

VR is massive @Mr. Fox . It’s taking over honestly, walk in any Walmart and you can buy a Metaquest. Seems to me like every young kids mind from here to across the world where they either have already, or want a MetaQuest VR headset for Christmas. It’s essentially a game console by its self. Many of them are Standalone headsets with their own built in hardware to render games. Some are standalone and require a PC though. We even have two Steams. “Steam” and “Steam VR” VR support is a big deal though. It’s really holding back the Intel Arc B580, because many people want to hook up their VR headset to the PC. And let their GPU render in a more powerful with higher graphics quality. AMD sucks at VR support, but they are getting better. And Intel is completely nonexistent. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Okay GREAT NEWS! Nvidia just launched PRIORITY ACCESS for gamers to obtain a 5080/5090! You have to have a GeForce Experience app created before 01/30/2025, and you can sign up to receive a purchase link for the cards which are supposed to go out next week. This is amazing NEWS! Hopefully it works out well. I personally think retailers need to stop selling the 5080/5090 completely. They are all going to scalpers. Right when I throw in the towel, Nvidia pulls this crap... If I get a link, I am buying one for sure! Nvidia is making it easier for fans to buy an RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — here's how @electrosoft One of my last laptop's in 2017 was my first ever gaming laptop which costed me $1,780 USD Aorus X17 with a 7820HK/GTX1070 8GB. This machine was AMAZING. Build quality was fantastic! It was fast! I could undervolt and overclock it. The GTX1070 rivaled the GTX1080 machines easily. But it was 4K and I hated how sluggish it was for a GTX1070. Games looked AMAZING, but ran like a slide show sometimes. It did okay in most titles with 30-50 fps. But after I got my Clevo 15" machine in 2018 which had an Intel 8086K/GTX1080 MXM, and it was 1920x1080@120Hz which blew through every game. 2018 marked the first time I ever experienced 120Hz and it was on a 15" DTR Laptop. I loved the machine so much, I cannot count how many hours I put in to playing on that thing. My current thought process was that my current desktop 4090 crushes 4K with 80-120+ fps almost always. But, with a laptop 4090 I am losing half of my performance at least, right? So, I cannot see driving a 4K panel with a laptop 4090 and going to 40-60fps in 4K lol. I think it would make the machine feel very slow. So, the Mini LED 2560x1600 was the driving factor behind my purchase, and probably the 2K price tag pushing me over the edge. Even though the machine may not be as good as an MSI Raider. I just cannot cope with traditional IPS panels with back light bleed, it drives me crazy. And 4K was something that I did not want again after my first laptop experience. Even though I know perfectly well how good that MSI 4K Mini LED panel is. It has been a long time since using a laptop. Over 5 years now I suppose. So, I hope I like the machine. Fingers crossed. I do hate that the bios is locked down though and no undervolting can be done. Sometimes we have to learn the hard way, I am stubborn like anyone else lol. But, I wanted to stay within a tight budget on getting a last gen laptop just in case I wanted to sell it and get another one. I do not care about overclocking it, I mainly just want decent temps and smooth performance.

Yeah that's the perfect resolution for that panel. I remember when I had the 4k option for a P870DM laptop with the desktop 980 and it was huffin and puffin to render games properly. That was my first and last 4k laptop panel. Now it is always 1080p or 1600p. I''ve tested numerous Acer laptops. Outside of their thin and light models, they are built like a tank and usually have good cooling and loud af fans. ---- Watching Best Buy this morning and 5070ti's sold out (all 4 of them they offered), but it wasn't immediate and the last model, the $970 Gigabyte OverPriced Edition, took almost 40 minutes to sell out. Lack of common sense kicking in again..... NE has the 5070ti MSRP models ($749.99) on the Shuffle today.

Are there any better options? Basically, I want to put a dual ssd drive setup in bay one. To feed my projects and run the OS, then use the other 3 bays are the raid array for project storage using large HDDs.

Core 1645mhz at 750mv and don’t decrease the ram