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Most likely MSI Afterburner 4.6.6 Beta 5 Build 16555 from Feb. Aka nothing have changed. No changes in MSI Afterburner itself, the same version was recompiled to increment build number from 16554 to 16555. Maybe nvidia have paid the scalper price difference to tackle AMD's launch? Nvidia and its partners (especially nvidia) won't lose much money doing it this way with so few cards at launch in the long run. This will be pennies or better say petty cash from Nvidia's war fund. Several GeForce RTX 5070 Editions Listed On Retailer; Base And OC Editions Priced At MSRP Of $549 The latest listings on B&H Photo Video retailer show many custom models of the GPU, mostly from Gigabyte and ASUS, but two are from PNY as well. Typically, vendors launch base and OC models as one can check from the listings, but the surprising thing here is the mentioned MSRP of those GPUs. This time, even the OC models that usually sell for noticeably higher price tags are also listed for the same $549. Currently, out of 10 RTX 5070 GPUs listed on the retailer, four carry price tags.

Windows 11 24H2 is a huge mess paired with Intel Core Ultra processors/platform. And you are almost forced to use Windows 11 with AMD's new gen graphics cards. -Nice. Windows 11 24H2 might quietly throttle and slow your system when you aren't paying attention AMD makes a Windows 11 official requirement mandatory for latest graphics cards AMD has made one of the minimum system requirements of Windows 11 a necessity for its latest generation of graphics cards.... From the Green camp's new products... NVIDIA makes a fool of itself again with its new Hotfix driver: it doesn't solve the problems, it creates new ones, and it's the users who come up with several partial solutions

Doesn't help. If US really cared they would have to ban Nvidia from selling their chips in whole Asia continent/region. As well several other countries around the world. That would mean Nvidia would go out of business. And money matters. In short... All US chip/tech companies would go out of business. And whats the point demand water down the chips performance for the China market when China have one of world's biggest corps of engineers that can boost performance from less performing chips? Only a full ban of all chips and ban +70% of the global continent from buying chips. That won't happen. As long there is chips production with ot without US tech, China will get their share of them. Chinese firms get Blackwell chips by ordering through nearby countries, defying U.S. bans This just shows how ineffective the U.S. bans and sanctions are when it comes to controlling the inflow of chips into China, with former U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo saying that moves like this are but a fool’s errand. That’s because unlike ASML, which only have a few customers, Nvidia has a massive customer base that would make it nearly impossible to track where each of its products will end up. Yup, more profits from data center chips... Major Swedish retailer confirms lack of GeForce RTX 5070 stock at launch MSI increases RTX 5070 Ti prices ahead of RX 9070 XT launch MSI unlaunches its “MSRP” cards, RTX 50 series get a price hike in official store MSI is likely to be only the first of many companies to raise prices for the RTX 5070 Ti. Asus previously faced similar criticism when the price of the Prime RTX 5080 GPU rose to 1,178 euros after its market launch. Manufacturers often stick to Nvidia's RRP until launch in order to get their models into the first reviews. However, some analysts suspect that the price increases were already planned in advance, even before Nvidia published the official pricing guidelines.

Long time since I have seen such a mess from Nvidia. I hope AMD can learn from all this. People aren't so forgiving with AMD. NVIDIA’s Latest Driver Update Is Apparently Unable To Resolve “Black Screen” Issues For Many Users; MFG-Supported Titles Are Now Crashing It is claimed that all titles supporting MFG are now crashing out for the user, and even after applying the 572.65 "hotfix," the issue seems to be persistent. However, the black-screen isn't just limited to MFG titles; Since the update was released a few days ago, we have not seen masses reports on crashing issues. However, the initial reports indeed indicate that something is wrong. The problem could lie with how MFG works for RTX 50 Blackwell Blackscreen GPUs, but we are not sure for now. Edit.

Windows 10 is once again the most popular OS on Steam And the latest and greatest is still riddled with weird bugs @Mr. Fox Windows 11 24H2 might quietly throttle and slow your system when you aren't paying attention

Windows 10 is once again the most popular OS on Steam And the latest and greatest is still riddled with weird bugs @Mr. Fox Windows 11 24H2 might quietly throttle and slow your system when you aren't paying attention

Me... Continue with my "old" Intel 1700 setup. Neither Intel or AMD will get my money this round. I was ready to buy but none offered anything better than what I already have. New doesn't always mean much better. Only newer😎

This won't help. And US government had to do the same for the whole Asia continent (Asia population is equivalent to 59.05% of the total world population). The “China Shock” in semiconductors: Chip prices have dropped so much that no company can compete, some could close

US companies prefer China. And nothing can or will be changed. Again you see tech companies prefer China over the west or globally. Nothing will change bro @Mr. Fox AMD has opened preorders for the just-announced Radeon RX 9070 series. The preorders are available exclusively in China for now. The company faces an uphill battle to gain momentum in China’s GPU market. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT leads over non-XT model in China preorders

Spot on from Corsair Team. Straight from the textbook. People think a native 12+4 pin cable is the best choice. But nothing is better than the old 8 pin connectors. There is still a few people out ther that can use their brain bro @Mr. Fox

Yup. And Nvidia know very well that their AIB partners for gaming cards can set whatever prices they want. Even for MSRP cards. Nvidia have no time for gamers. They go after the big money. Gamers will be valuable again once the AI bubble go out. There’s a finite capacity for chip production across the industry. Nvidia, AMD, and their fabrication partners can only make so many chips, especially for the newest and most complex designs — and a company like Nvidia would prefer to sell 10,000 new data center GPUs to OpenAI than 10,000 gaming GPUs to Best Buy (or a partners like etc Asus). And Asus can just adjust the prices of the few they get from Nvidia. OpenAI has run out of GPUs, says Sam Altman — GPT-4.5 rollout delayed due to lack of processing power Altman added in his post that hundreds of thousands more GPUs are coming soon. Shortages like these are what’s pushing OpenAI to develop its own AI silicon in partnership with Broadcom. But because it will take the company years before it can release its own chips, for now it must rely on Nvidia and other providers for its needs for now. AI cock suckery, LOOL Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti vs. GTX 1080 Ti: Return of the GOAT GPU The Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti is pretty darn good. But how does it compare to the eight-year-old GTX 1080 Ti, which many think is the greatest graphics card of all time? In other words, if you spent money on this card seven or eight years ago and you don’t need the latest and greatest, I’d say you’re fine to hang on to that aging 10-series card for another generation.

Something is fishy here. The whole cards weight is 1750 grams from the HUB video. The cooler weight 1450 and the die cast frame 244 grams. That's already 1694 grams if you follow the math. No in hell the 5090 PCB, components and fans + the fan shroud only weight in 56 grams. Please do the math yourself. For the records... The 5090 Master Ice, the white sibling, weight 3200 grams with the added extra fan from this review. Far from 1750 grams the Aorus Master weight in as HU claims. Not sure what's up. Brain fog?🤐 Edit. Gigabyte would be insane/stupid if they engineered their 5090 flagship cards lighter than previous gen low end 4090 SKUs as the 4090 Gaming OC you see from pict below. And for the pricing.... More expensive than even Asus flagship. ROG taxes wasn't enough for Gigabyte. Even the Gaming OC card cost more than the Astral OC. Isn't that disgusting?

9070XT ~ $600. The 9070 is all too expencive at $549. Why in hell price it that high? But I hope AMD have enough cards for launch. Because AMD need customers/higher market share. https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rdna4-officially-presented-in-china-radeon-rx-9070-xt-priced-at-4999-rmb-599-rx-9070-at-4499-rmb-549

Each to their own. A xx80 cards with half the cores vs geforce high end cards is just disgusting. Die Size 378 mm² is equal or even smaller than what is used for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. Yet another disgusting PSU design choice. No 8 pin connectors for Radeon or Intel graphics cards. But offer dual 12V-2x6 connectors for dual nvidia graphics. Maybe Nvidia have paid for the whole R&D ?🤔 Or maybe they subsidise this model? Damn disgusting PSU design choice for the power outputs. 1250W PSU and one lonely PCIe (6+2 pin). And that one will go to the MB as well. Thats'''' perverse... https://www.guru3d.com/story/mpg-a1600t-pcie6-a1250gs-pcie5-and-mpg-a1000gs-pcie5-new-pcie5-power-supply-line/ Who'm should pay above $700 for a xx70tier card? @Mr. Fox ready to open your wallet? AMD FSR 4 might not be as good as expected, far behind NVIDIA and slightly worse than Intel? Whether it is RTX50 or RDN4, after finishing the evaluation, my feeling is that this generation of graphics cards is completely a generation of products for technical experiments. To put it bluntly, it is treating buyers as guinea pigs. That will be a great deal for those that prefer (gaming) Jokebook. Because prices will be even worse for the US market. Trump's tariff on China is going up to 20 percent President Trump now says that he's applying an additional 10 percent tariff to goods imported from China, and tariffs against Mexico and Canada will begin in March. Trump has also declared plans to charge a separate 25 percent tariff on chip imports by April 2, potentially spiking prices even higher. If you are in need for etc new graphics cards then it's time to buy it now if you can find one for sale.

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Will be fun to see if they lift the ban for unlimited vram overclock for their power limit castrated 5000 series cards. Nvidia have still not fixed the voltage cap added in the drivers for Maxwell the last 3 years.

Nvidia in a nutshell...

$100 USD too much. AMD and their partners want a bite of the cake. I wonder how much extra AIB partners can charge extra due AMD won't make own cards. RX 9070 XT starting at $699. No mid range card should cost $700 USD. And cheaper and slower GDDR6 vram modules shouldn't offer price premium. Rather the opposite. https://videocardz.com/newz/microcenter-lists-radeon-rx-9070-series-rx-9070-xt-starting-at-699-rx-9070-at-649

The main problem... This mess won't be only for electronics and silicon trash. What can't be fixed won't be fixed. That's facts. You can't make a living cutting your neighbor's hair. And less you have the less you can buy. In the end the circle will start all over again. Push works over to those that can make it cheaper. Sad seeing what direction Framework goes... More trash created. More Electronic waste (e-waste). Framework's First Mini Desktop Is A Ryzen AI Max Powered Console Killer

Yup, some will suffer thats for sure. And mostly those with less than others. We see it here home. And we will see it other places. Poverty will Increase. And many will only get the bare minimum to survive. Much of the produced goods will go to the people that have a easier life. And that's life. Greed will always be the driving factor. Whatever if the goods is produced home or abroad. Buy homemade products will always be more expensive... And that will drive up inflation and prices. Always. I look at you... Norway. Disgusting.

One thing for sure... Moving production of pc/data electronics over to US will increase the prices. Heavly. What @electrosoft posted below will only be the beginning of the price spirale forwards. Good luck being an computer nerd/enthusiasts. The inflation will increase. That's for sure. Sad to see prices going the wrong way in "cheaper countries to live" and being at the same level as here at home in one of the world's most expensive countries to live in. We in Norway can barely handle it because of our high salaries. Those with less income will struggle buy anything.

Not sure where Wccftech got this from but this wouldn't surprise me at all. With everything we have seen from Intel.... AMD etc, everything is possible with new modern tech. It seems like RTX Blackwell is experiencing silicon degradation, which means that over a period of time, we might see several SKUs pop up with missing ROPs or something even more significant, depending upon the actual issue with NVIDIA's silicon. https://wccftech.com/nvidia-confirms-missing-rop-issue-across-all-rtx-50-series-gpus/

No need update nvidia drivers for older gen cards the coming 2 months. Nvidia's main focus from now is on 5000 series blackwell blackscreen cards. Nvidia 572 new drivers see increased number of RTX 30 and above users report black screens NVIDIA admits: yeah sorry, our new GeForce RTX 5080 has missing ROPs as well More SKUs affected, but nvidia say still same low failure rate, LOOL Here is another one to avoid @electrosoft +$4450 for Razer-book with 5090. Razer Blade 18 stealthily unveiled with top-spec Intel Arrow Lake-HX CPU, RTX 5090 GPU and a dual-mode display As it stands, the Blade 16 2025 maxes out at $4,599.99 with a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 64 GB of RAM, 4 TB of storage and an RTX 5090 GPU. 5300 euros is +$5500 USD here home. For a gaming Jokebook. This is perverse. Razer Blade 18RTX 5000 notebook with Intel CPU costs up to 5,300 euros With the Blade 18, Razer now offers Intel CPUs with RTX 5000 in notebooks after the RTX 5000 with AMD CPU in the Blade 16. NVIDIA Opens Up Pre-orders for GeForce RTX 5090, 5080 & 5070 Ti Laptops

Yup, for US citizens (ASUS gives gamers in the US a fair chance). And keep all the profits is just the way Asus really want it to be.