jaybee83

absolutely agreed, im seeing the same trend here in europe as well. keep holding out boiz, i think March will be a nice turnaround with regards to stock 🙂

LOL having lived in SG for almost 6 years in total that doesnt surprise me in the LEAST 😄 ...yes she did 😉 😄

fun fact, the trio is still available today 😄 also found a ventus in stock for ~500€ less. interesting that nobody seems to be biting.

phsew my wife just pulled me back from the edge. situation: i just found an MSI RTX 5090 Gaming X Trio for about +10% the price i was willing to pay for a Suprim SOC. not quite what i initially wanted, but close enough and the review i found attested it solid cooling performance. plus, its in stock, would be shipping by end of this week and +10% is "ok" in the current situation. BUT since were hyper-enthusiasts and easily get lost in our freakshow here, i asked for her advice on this. her reply: nope, if u do this now, ull regret it in a few months time, once the Suprim SOC becomes available at "ok" prices. and u know what? shes right, ill keep that card for minimum two years and gonna spend a fortune on it either way. so lets do this right... keep the search going! in any case, im just happy now i finally found a card in stock and with an "ok" price. plus im seeing more and more price drops from the scalpers on ebay. are we FINALLY holding strong, guys?!?! is this the turn of the tide? if so then I am SO of you and all of us! keep it up! 🙂

nice, lets hope it stays that way for all of us! just be sure not to check excessively, lots of other users did regular checks of their cable, thus adding wear and tear with each (re)plug and only then causing damage 😄 wouldnt worry about the 3090Ti, Ampere actually had load balancing built in. they regressed with 40 and 50 series on that front, as reported by Roman. thats why we didnt see any melting cables with the 3090 / 3090 Ti, even though they were also running insane wattages with the XOC vbios versions.

yep, right here! im kinda anxious to pulling out my GPU for the storage upgrade / case cleaning in 1-2 weeks time...fingers crossed everything is dandy! i. just. dont. get. it. WHY AMD? why?! it would be SO easy and straight forward! 5070Ti MSRP 750, then do -30% at 550 and u got an absolute BANGER that literally everyone will buy, case closed. but nope, they gotta follow the same stupid, non-functional strat they did the last few times, ugh....

yay, i actually managed to SEE an RTX 5090 IN STOCK and im ABLE TO ADD IT TO THE CART! One more click and i could actually buy it.... what do u think guys? THE BEST 5090 (FE) AT THE BEST PRICE! LOL 😄 PS: no worries, im not that crazy 😛

consider yourselves lucky that u even HAVE SEEN any 5090 in stock or actually know about upcoming drops. ive had neither so far 😛 however, im having some funsies with scalpers on ebay. one of them actually dared to offer me a 5% price drop on his 5090 Suprim card, going from 5500€ initial to 5200€. i GRACIOUSLY declined his offer with the following message: F*** OFF DIRTY SCALPER! 😄

if that is the case ill just switch to getting the last gen halo gpu once the new gen launches, i.e. get the 5090 when the 6090 launches 😄

theyre heeeere 😄 32TB of M.2 NVME PCIe 4.0 goodness mwahahaaaa: sniped them on ebay for ~490€ each, all of them new 😎 will test throroughly of course before putting any of my data on them. idea is to put them in RAID 10 so ill have 16TB of space with extra redundancy built in. depending on the respective failure, thatll allow me either 1 or 2 drives of failure while still maintaining data integrity 🙂 im currently on 2x4TB and 2x8TB separate partitions that im doing regular mirroring on (once a month roughly), so this new config will allow for realtime mirroring plus quadruple read / double write speeds 🙂 now i just need to wait on a toolbox i ordered, since im missing Torx size 1/2 bits to be able and take off the heatsinks....

welp, i dont even wanna know how many 5080s were bought just cuz the buyers didnt get their hands on a 5090...

welp as with most things in life, its never black or white, but rather a collection of probabilities. anyone using the 16 pin plug is at "some" risk, but doesnt mean ure cooked for sure 😄 just gotta take the right precautions.

stock psu cables have much higher reliability than "modded" ones from third party sellers 🙂

nice, so basically he paid MSRP for the 5090 but also threw in his 4090 "for free" 😄 no way jose, im sticking to my 2x8pin seasonic cable specifically made for my PSU 🙂 dont want TWO potential fire hazards on one cable, one is quite enough 😄 on this topic, i just ordered two new cables for my PSU with the updated 12V-2x6 connector. wanted to be sure to have those on hand before i unplug my 4090 for the upcoming storage upgrade / case cleaning:

oh gawd, pls shoot me now before i go all Ass-R-Us 😄 nah nobody would buy that, cuz HOW would their gamerboi friendz distinguish their shiny new 5090 from their previous 4090?!?!?! 😮

ohnoooozzzz....now we all owe you 500 bucks each and were in dire risk of destroying our hardware! 😮

yeah i dont get it either what kinda strat AMD is trying to follow... even at performance parity, love or hate the Nvidia DLSS / Reflex / Tensor based software features, red team needs to provide a substantial value advantage. but here they are, thinking they can do the same shit Nvidia does and get away with it, while scratching their heads why Radeon market share is steadily shrinking...

yeah who cares about those 😄 ive since expanded my search to shops in spain and france, still keeping tabs 😄 interestingly, prices there seem to still be "ok", lets see for how long!

aight, decision is made: keeping the 4090 for now and ordered new SSDs with the 5090 budget 😛 4x8TB WD SN850X/P drives incoming! 😄 with the way things are going it might be quite a while until ill be able to snatch a 5090. however, price is also a consideration: all websites im monitoring are slowly but surely increasing prices every. single. day. so even WHEN new stock arrives, itll be like 4k+ € easily, even directly from the shop. not willing to pay THAT much, F that. rather bide my time and enjoy the 4090 some more, plus the new toys im getting for a steal 🙂

im currently thinking about just biting the bullet and selling my 4090 since pricing is going to the moon atm. i have several upgrades planned (storage and cpu for sure, potentially RAM and a timepiece) and id like to use the expected freetime i have in march to tune in my machine. issue being, if i just use the budget i have right now ill not be trigger ready whenever the 5090 drops. thats why selling the 4090 now might be a good approach... hmmmm, what are y`all thinking? lets have a small poll here: Option 1) use the 5090 budget to upgrade storage & cpu, and recharge it via selling off current parts - risking insufficient budget when 5090 drops but 4090 at the ready for daily use Option 2) sell off 4090 for a moon price to do storage + cpu upgrade - having to deal with iGPU on a daily basis but ready anytime for 5090 drops

shoot, was excited to see the 5090 suprim at one of the shops im monitoring available for purchase! nothing in stock ofc but the price was MSRP for the suprim, so figured: order now, fix the MSRP price and dont mind waiting / not having to look for availability every day anymore! but nope, shop cancelled the order cuz they apparently "dont take preorders"....ummmm, then why do they leave the purchase button activated? 😄 anyways, i was excited for like half an hour today hahaha

nice, will have a looksie on those vids 🙂 and YES, the upgrade in encoders/decoders is huge indeed! i for one am looking forward to it, i use it on a semi regular basis for media archive management 🙂 "...in a big sea of joe gamers and Carla Content Creators of the world." love that! rofl "5080 OC up in stock 4090 territory in TS:" - perfect, so then the "performance" is starting to match 4090 "stock" pricing as well LOL niiiiiiice. leaning back and enjoying the show, let them figure shit out before we get our cards 😄

just saw romans vid on this, completely agree on your take here. with this little prep time by the vendors, id rather wait 2-3 months so that i can be sure my 3000+€ gpu will not go up in magic smoke once i put it through the ringer.... update on the RTX 50 series data for germany: total votes: 4401 out of which: 44% did not even try to buy a card (= 1948) 42% tried buying one but failed (= 1870) 7% managed to get their hands on a 5080 (= 325) 3% managed to get their hands on a 5090 (= 111) 3% misc. (= 147) aint that lovely? success rate of 2.5% with a total of a whopping 111x 5090s 😄 curious how many of those were aided by bots...

in that case u didnt miss much anyways it seems 😄

ha! i found two shops with a total of four 5090 models available for purchase (delivery sometime between end of march to end of april LOL) so here we have the scalper shop Galaxus: THATS IN EURO BTW! MSRP for the FE iss 2329€. the balls on that shop.... and here we have more "normal pricing" at PC-King, but still high for such basic models if u ask me: not interested in any of these models. not gonna spend a ton of money on a card that i dont even want 😄 but maybe some of you might be interested 🙂