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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.

Nice seeing the tiny trash connector on the Zotac card run hotter than the GPU cores😁 And with uneven power balancing bethween the pins the connector will surely run even hotter. At 100C you can start fry eggs on the backplate for that card. I'm sure the results would be much better with the Zotac 5090. And the cooking would go much faster🙂

I wonder what prices nvidia will put for an 5080@24GB Super cards. Maybe $1199? I don't think Nvidia will do the same as they did with 4080 Super prices. $999 for 24GB cards won't happen. At best maybe $1099,99 Nvidia may release the RTX 5080 and 5070 Super with boosted memory configurations according to leaker How many hotfix drivers will be pushed out before the Super series release and next level of screw ups start? A hotfix for an hotfix... The new normal from the Green team?🤔 NVIDIA releases another GeForce Hotfix driver with 10 game and monitor fixes Thanks. It's a nice card but the prices is out of hands (not worth it). $2000 is already quite step for MSRP cards. Above $3000 is just disgusting. The cheapest shop I can see the Astral LC OC cost $3122.91 without tax right now (13 in stock). So a price increase around $120 vs what I paid. Fantastic 4K results from the new ++$3000 graphics cards... RTX 4090 Is the First True 8K Gaming GPU According to Benchmarks... Just the start. 99% of all hardware manufacturers in Asia won't move over to US. They will rather move to other regions in Asia where they can avoid the highest tariffs. See you as damn lucky if you only get 10-15% higher prices. This before you count in the increasing infation that will start hunt you again due the tariff war. Cheapest is not to buy anything the next years. The saved money can be used etc to pay for higher priced food. The US is running out of HYTE PC cases due to tariffs: they will have to wait for production in Vietnam or Thailand. I have said this before several times for Liquid metal. Falsely advertised sky high W/m·K thermal conductivity numbers. Nice seeing this being confirmed as pure scam. You can't beat physics..

Not sure I want to spend more money on computer parts right now. And not much time for it now. All to much to spend on the house rehab and other peripherals for the house. I also thinking about a robotic lawnmower. But that's also equal pricy as the +$3000 graphics card. And then I have to set aside money for our usual one mont summer vaccation outside Africa. 3.5 months go fast. 300-500 USD here and there will be a lot money in the end. Same vram clock cap also with Hynix. You lust got a love nvidia. The next level of stupidity will be capping the core clocks or remove the voltage slider from working with new Geforce drivers as they did with Maxwell graphics cards. Nvidia just make it harder and harder to love them😒 GeForce RTX 5070 Ti With SK Hynix GDDR7 Memory Overclocked To 34 Gbps; Delivers 7% Performance Uplift

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/pc-cases/pc-case-and-components-maker-hyte-pauses-shipments-to-u-s-customers-amid-tariff-pressures Le3ss time for me fiddle with computers now. Typical in the spring after the long and cold winter. Now we have reached that time of year where you have to fix up around the house and garden. Tidying up the garden and yard, painting, start the rehab and expansion of the terrace for this springs work. Also bought a Pergola this time. The one I bought has more as a waterproof roof that can be adjusted so you can let in sunlight. The last one they had left in the store. Typically for early spring is that everything in the stores becomes fast empty of seasonal goods. If you can't find what you want then you need to wait for next spring. Or go hunting after parts at the double the cost. Many hard winters with rainy summers will kill what you have outside the door. Nothing last forever here in the climate we have here in the cold North. Nice have something to spend your hard earned money on. Bought this Pergola. Nice to sit under if there is rainy days. I saved $600 on sale for the Pergola. So a no brainer I jumped on it now. Next year it will be even more expensive as it always does 🙂Similar Pergola models in other shops is often double the price or around $2300. Well below half the price is a good purchase (if you are in need for one). Run and buy. I did, LOL

Windows Recall is too risky for your Copilot+ PC. Turn it off, now Windows Recall offers an easy way to search your history on your PC. It's simple and convenient — both for you as well as bad actors. Remove it.

Windows Recall is too risky for your Copilot+ PC. Turn it off, now Windows Recall offers an easy way to search your history on your PC. It's simple and convenient — both for you as well as bad actors. Remove it.

Windows Recall is too risky for your Copilot+ PC. Turn it off, now Windows Recall offers an easy way to search your history on your PC. It's simple and convenient — both for you as well as bad actors. Remove it.

AMD patches critical Zen 5 microcode bug — partners deliver new BIOS with AGESA 1.2.0.3C

Galax want $520 $535 "extra" premium for the second 12v-2*6 (They should have offered dual 12V-2*6 for all 3 different HOF Sku's). The damn bean counters strikes again. And the card still have the same 600W power limit as every AiB partner cards. I'm sure Nvidia didn't like what Galax did with the 4090 HOF and offered 666W vbios. Dual power connector doesn't help with this gen. But if you are one of the few chosen ones you may get the XOC firmware and the XOC tool. Nope. No thanks. And the D sku for China doesn't tempt me. People in the used market want fully working graphics cards. Not cards offered to China due the US ban. I mean it's 1.095

ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI will raise the prices of their motherboards without giving any explanation or reason. They want more $$$ but offer less and less back to the paying customers. Asus want to fix what's not the problem. Asus have never learned from the past. And they won't change how they will run their business. They want $300 to even look at the board that cost $400 and still under warranty. https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy/submissions/5826335?recalculate=true LoL. Newer has to be better. Always😁 I bet Intel is damn happy for this. Wafers from older node is cheaper to produce. And they can make them in own foundry. Intel's AI PC chips aren't selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom During the earnings call, Intel announced that it currently faces a shortage of production capacity for its 'Intel 7' process node, and the company expects this shortage to "persist for the foreseeable future." That's an unexpected shortage to have, as Intel's current-gen chips use newer process nodes from TSMC instead of Intel's older 'Intel 7' node. H++ didn't save theis 4090 FE "Super" from melting.

The newest drivers from Nvidia is even more fun with Jokebooks😁 Newer has to be better. Isn't that correct bro @Mr. Fox

Intel can't even make silicon wafers for own products. And people can't afford anything it if prices go up 2-3 or even 4 times todays prices. Whats the point start make products if noone buy it. And people start cry already if inflation is above 4%. This doesn't look good, neither for US or rest of the world.

Hmmm. Under Warranty until 01-24-2026 / Does MSI want to be the new Asus_