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Yup. New small features to increase sales of newer and more expensive products. Gigabyte incorporates 64MB BIOS chip on X870 motherboard to integrate the WiFi driver Maybe Microsofts next hardware requirements.... And you pay premium for an feature you don't want. This makes it easier for you to create a Microsoft account for the first time. Here, you can see why it was almost empty for 5090's globally and at awful high prices.... Nvidia and their partners feeded China with loads of cards... Perfect if you want to increase profits and make shortage. Same as with the miner boom. And I'm sure they shipped out the 5090's for the better paying customer before release. For example, the high-priced RTX 50 series is in short supply. When the RTX 5090 was launched globally at the beginning of the year, it was snapped up at a marked-up price. In particular, AI chip buyers from China bought it as soon as it was available without asking the price. As a result, the channel price of the RTX 5090 doubled from the launch price of approximately NT$80,000 at the time. And now Nvidia want you to pay even more... Becaue they need too keep up their high profits margins. NVIDIA reportedly raises GPU prices by 10-15% as manufacturing costs surge — tariffs and TSMC price hikes filter down to retailers

Congrats. But why not wait for the cheaper RX 9060 XT @8GB Edition? Brand new and no one have touched it before you😀 Even the 16GB Edition will be cheaper than your Gigabyte 9070xt open box. And you don't need more than three Display Outputs (because the Navi 44’s primary purpose is for mobile graphics, which means it has a limited display engine). But you get an single 8-pin Power Connector. The best of both worlds... You get mobile hardware in desktop clothes. Can't be better. Radeon RX 9060 XT cards spotted on Amazon for $450 and up

Hmmm. The Gold OC Edition is close to $8000 and not the much cheaper $5600 price point. I wonder if more expensive will give you more value for your hard earned money. The more you pay the more you save.

Yup. And who other than Asus would come up with the same? Maybe MSI will come close if they release their Lightning cards. With close I mean $1000 cheaper. But it won't come in Gold colors🙂 Asus is soon more for the wealthy one. And Asus needed to change the name for their flagship to be able to charge more. A new SKU name is perfect if you want to increase already high prices.

Asus is grazy. $5600 USD for the 5090 Astral Gold Edition. But you get the badge button in Gold. That's something to remind you about your utter stupidity when you boght it. I wonder what an 5090 Matrix Gold Edition would cost. Still expensive but you get more value for your money. Amost 6 cards for the single golden boy from Asus... But you won't get that gold printed badge button for your refrigerator door. Can you live with that? Hmmm.

Intel have created a real Frankenstein processor with their fake and real tile chips mess. If you want every drop from your expensive Gen-5 drive then you are forced to borrow lanes from the GPU path. And this can't be fixed by firmware. I'ts done by design. Yees. PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Throughput Issues on Intel Core Ultra 200 Platforms And Intel continue try fix Raptor lake... Most likely because they offer 5 years warranty for those older chips. Raptor Lake Instability: Intel Releases Yet Another Firmware Patch (0x12F Microcode) Hmmm. Where is AMD in all this? Are they completely innocent in the mess? Not only Assrock have created problems for themself. Go back to the mother of the problems and it all screems AMD. ASUS BIOS Update Resolves Ryzen 9000 SoC Voltage Lock Also some pc users have done wrong choices--- But will they learn from own misstakes? I doubt it. I regret buying into the RGB hype for my gaming PC. I’m just not drinking that Kool-Aid anymore. Hmm. Never too late.

If @cylixcan't deliver..... We all count on you😀 Nvidia as of today. Gamers ain't profitable so why bother? https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/rtx-5060-reviews-are-reportedly-in-jeopardy-nvidia-allegedly-withholding-pre-release-drivers-from-reviewers Startup trains AI models with gaming GPU setup under $100K Fastino is reportedly using less than $100,000 (USD) worth of gaming graphics cards to handle its training needs. This stands out against more commercial operations like Elon Musk's giant xAI, which has seriously intense power requirements.

Microsoft would love that....

Assrock is AMD's preffered (MB) partner. Hmmm.

Maybe AMD also should extend the warranty to 5 years? I'm sure we will see the Zen moment for Assrock🙂

The Chinese know best. 4x 5090 for the price of the Pro. Have been shown time after time. No problem turn 32GB for higher capacity with blessing from Jensen. If he cannot sell more expensive SKU's due the US ban then hi sell parts to make the cheaper cards better. The stupids in the US governments can't catch up with the greed. Or they are all corrupt. And me thinking they are both. You can't fix stupid!!!!!

RTX 6000 Pro will have the 3090 vram temps. The vram below the backplate will turn into +100C. But Nvidia have asked Micron/Samsung and Hynix to increase temp limits for their chips, so.... Maybe it will last within the warranty period. Only Nvidia know.

Castrated by single tiny 12v-2x6. So damn expensive vram. And only for specialized workloads. And the Pro series is Nvidia's gold. Perfect for China to circumvent the US ban. The more they sell of theese the higher price will you see for 5090's. But the Chinese can make 3x5090's for the same price with 3x +48GB vram.

Asus find new ways to increase profits from $999 graphics cards. Will we see $2000 for the new greedy move? Or 5090 FE prices for 5080 cards? That's disgusting even with the Gold color ASUS preparing GeForce RTX 5080 ROG Astral DHAHAB Edition Stock 3DM Port Royal results +40.000 https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3411289 Oc'd 3DM Port Royal with Gigabyte vbios and broken fan control +43300 https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3411290 I just bought a new machine with 5.0 Amp batteries to replace my aging Bosch (both 18V) for my outdoor projects. I hope the new one will last equal long as the old (+15 years). But as everyone know.... New has to be better🤐 $250 with discount. And replacement battery cost close to $100 so nice the package have two of them. It takes 45 min to charge one of the 5.0AH batteries. That's not bad. Nvidia hope the new RTX workstation cards can help the AIB parners to keep the ASP for all 5090 cards as high as possible. 9000 Euro is above $10.000 USD NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs now available, starting at €9000 @Reciever The forum have been slow to load the last days. Hope you can take a look. Thanks

And not forget all the cards with ugly home brewed heatsink and fans on top of the fancy colored orginal alu backplate to try reduce the temps. Imagine if Nvidia made the 5090 as the 3090 with vram sandwiched on the PCB. Like instant 100C for the vram and backplate. So perfectly fine for cooking food while you gaming. Engineering at the very best. The tiny trash connectors is almost as superglued to the GPU and PSU, LOOL

Yup. The HW manufacturers have their own ways to increase the prices (profits) for their products. Retail know more vram has it's value. 9070 XT have 16GB and the closest competitor is the higher priced 5080. Hence they go bananas on the 9070XT prices. Nvidia could easly let the non Super cards have a higher TDP from day one. But that's for the Super cards. Legitimately cripple the current gen cards to offer something newer for higher prices/try recup market shares from AMD. The classic greed.

What you get for close to $1000 USD. Despite Team Red's assurances of delivering MSRP stock to consumers, it appears nowhere to be found at the proposed $599 price tag. Instead, retailers have bumped up prices massively since launch. AMD Fails To Deliver MSRP Pricing With The Radeon RX 9070 XT; Retailers Now Selling SKUs Up To a Whopping $1,000 Price Mark Looking at the US markets, we see retailers like Amazon offering the Radeon RX 9070 XT at around $960, which marks around a 50% difference from the MSRP, which is shocking.

Apple produce the hardware as well. @Mr. Fox Ready to buy an M$ surfbook? And You are 100%sure you'll get Windows 11 pre-installed. Microsoft really, really wants Windows 10 users to buy Copilot+ PCs A new blog post extols the virtues of AI-ready Copilot+ PCs and paints them as the way forward for users who have unupgradable Windows 10 PCs. Microsoft try hard to make their latest and greatest better.... Microsoft PC Manager for Windows 11 is now showing Microsoft 365 ads Microsoft confirms Windows 11 24H2 0x80240069 svchost.exe_wuauserv crashes

Yup. Use the card in an cramped box with not the best airflow and you live in a place with higher ambient temp inside home (AC can do so much) and temps will start creep upwards. Add some weird power balancing for the pins (even perfect insert can make weird power balancing for the pins) and you see where it goes. Of course we will see more melted cards not from user errors but from bad engineering. Or quality issues. Sad seeing so called enthusiasts always blame the end users.

Yup. And not all cards can keep the cable connector equal cold. I'm sure the Zotac card's 12v-2*6 connectors would run even hotter than +80C if stuffed with an worse quality power cable. I'm quite impressed with the cable dongle coming with the 5090 FE. Looks like it's of good quality. And I'm sure Nvidia's engineers have spent long time with it before they chose it for their FE cards.

Seen several have problems with drivers after xross flashing certain vbios versions. Nice. MSI offer worse quality than Nvidia. Yet they want higher prices. Maybe they should lower the price to match the quality? MSI's 12V-2x6 adapter for RTXs isn't as high-quality as the original power supply cable, so what's the point? The case of this MSI RTX 5090 SUPRIM takes on a new shape when we now know that in terms of materials and assembly, the adapter that was sold as the solution to the 12V-2x6 problems by MSI does not even have the quality of the NVIDIA one.

Where was the gap between 3080 and 3090? And no more xx80 Ti class. If Nvidia won't make it then we should see the xx90 as the xx80Ti. The performance gap bethween xx80 and xx90 should be equal 1080 vs 1080Ti or 2080 vs 2080Ti. This means Nvidia have crippled the performance for xx80 tier cards. Hence the xx80 is overpriced or the 5090 should be cheaper. No way the 5090 should be 60-85% faster than the next tier cards. Not even if Nvidia released a 5080 Ti. Even with 24GB vram the 5080 should be cheaper/more cores (or 5090 much cheaper). Feedback on newest drivers from today https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/564384/geforce-grd-57628-feedback-thread-released-43025/ Nvidia RTX 50-series demand drops in Germany — cheapest models of all but RTX 5090 priced at MSRP or lower 5090s are still flying off the shelves everywhere, it seems. See here. 5090 will keep their ugly price. Because creators, AI jockey's will compete with gamers. And China wan't real 5090's to build 48GB GPU's for AI workstations with 3 or more cards. PSU's with 3 or 4 tiny 12v-2*6 connectors is what Nvidia want to see more of. Silverstone's new PSU can power four RTX 5080 GPUs, or three RTX 5090 cards Intel driver update for Lunar Lake chips reportedly improves iGPU FPS by 10%, 1% lows by 25%

Yup, you have probably right. I just start to be too old for new modern tech😀 9 Reasons Why RGB is Worth It for Your Gaming PC Why make too many 5090's if you can sell the chips for more cash for workstation cards? Make less 5090's will profit both Nvidia and their AIB partners (higher ASP aka scalper prices). NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell PCB with double-sided 96GB GDDR7 detailed https://www.tweaktown.com/news/104854/nvidias-new-rtx-pro-6000-blackwell-pcb-with-double-sided-96gb-gddr7-detailed/index.html

The double colored trash connector got an nice color change Dell Alienware would be proud of. Is more colors better?😁 MSI's 'secure' yellow-tipped RTX 5090 12V-2x6 cable is still vulnerable to melting, user report suggests Tripple colored 12V-2*6 (12VHPWR) connector is what you want😁 Keep in mind, the yellow tip is merely a visual aid, and errors can still go unnoticed, well, until they melt your GPU.