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Hummm, had to think about that for a moment.... I was in the store for something else and asked about 50 series cards. They said they had some 5070's and I was like. That's a hard pass. Went to online order line and a manager said John, we know you're looking for a 5090, but we have this 4090 sitting here. Do you want it? I thought for a moment. I was like, sure. Why not. I'll hold onto it for you guys for a few weeks. The actual price on the box was 1745.96 though

Is the hype real or fabricated for the Astral?

1551.99 + 149.99 Warranty so 1618.88 out the door. Normal price, 1833.89 And I would more than likly just take it back to the store for a full hassle free refund. 🙂

Still no 5090's readily available at my MC, but the manager came and found me in line and said I have a MSI Liquid Suprim 4090 if you want it for now. So I grabbed that for now.

That would have been 646.49 out the door with no warranty and at MC regular store prices. I would have probably just traded on a favor. So less than 600.00 out the door with shipping I think. Not sure how much to ship to AZ. @tps3443 You probably would have done better just running a 5070 ti. Maybe that is the 4090 Jensen was talking about on par and beating it because it sure does beat that 4090 hands down.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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=

I was curious because I haven't done a shunt mod in a really long time. And I do remember trying both methods when I did. I totally sucked at using LM, but my soldering skills we a little bit better.

So with all that card moving he is doing in the video, how is the LM holding the 5 chips to the board or the uneven chips underneath them? 12:20 If he did, that is one hell of a good job! Edit: Doesn't LM eat up the solder? So leaving this on a shunt for long term would be bad right? Or did that change over the last few years?

Use point 11:01 and 11:43 time stamp in the video. He either removed the 4 shuts(?) or added on top of them. I think it's on top. And the one on back bottom right corner is changed. My chip seems to tap out at 5.750 Ghz unless i start going negative temps I suspect.

Got a little higher last night/this morning.