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As expected. The elite and chosen ones (their friends) will get whatever they need. And for free. Weird nvidia didn't stop cross-flashing bios between the different SKUs and brands. That will be the next on the "to do list"... And I'm sure the AIB partners would love that coming from Nvidia, faster the better. Pictures speak louder than words... And this is the reality. Ugly = Disgusting. The dirty business....

Yep, not bad when we see how the prices are in other places around the world. Still, awful pricey. Not sure I want that. I'm an collector of rare cards. I would prefer to keep it. And never dumb have a newer card as spare. And I won't get a better card if I need more than the 5090. Put it this way... Buy two 5090's won't happen 🙂

That's cheap😀 Whooping $6,376.37 USD for a 5090 GAMING TRIO OC on the used market here... Only for the card https://www.finn.no/recommerce/forsale/item/397318255 Me buy it? Nope. Hell freeze before I pay more than what the ordinary retail shops ask for. Aka their normal prices. And FE ain't an option even if they sold them here. The cooling is bad and you need buy WB (if you find one - sold out) that will add a lot cash on top. Fun facts... Checked my log of 4090's for sale in my account on the used market. Half of the 4090s I have saved to find out what they sold for was sold out and half of the 4090's in the log the seller have deactivated the sale🙂

$2,806.49 for the Astral OC - $2,933.50 for the LC version without tax. Or $3,489 for the aircooled card and $3,667 for the Astral OC LC incl the usual 25% Norwegian tax and shipping. Not as bad if you compare it to what you have to pay in the Asus US Store. Still damn awful prices. And Gigabut... Even more expensive here home than any of the ROG flagship cards. Asus really needs to step up and raise prices so they can stay on top, LOOL

Now we are in the AI boom. How long did it take to get cards at normal prices (and good supply) under the mining boom? I tried to grab one out of 3 available Astral OC LC today. And all should know how that went😆 But...... Edit. Despite AMD's promise to deliver RDNA 4 GPUs at MSRP, it is still letting its partners charge whatever they want to. AMD Board Partners Silently Increase Prices Of Radeon RX 9070 Series; Base Models Priced At Up To $130 Higher So same as with Nvidia's partners. AMD’s partners are already scalping their ‘MSRP’ 9070 and 9070 XT AMD need to fix this mess. Great priced 9700 series GPUs was their golden ticket to gain some market shares. Greedy partners seems to destroy for Team Red. GeForce RTX 5070 Takes The Number One Spot On Amazon, More NVIDIA GPUs Replace AMD In Best Selling GPUs List

Hence they are forced into Gaming In the Cloud. Sad reality if you want to game the newest game titles. And games has become more taxing on the graphics cards. The cheapest low tier cards will run faster into being unusable. That will also increase the costs for those that have less budget. Both game studios,nvidia and AMD is to blame for this. Same with Intel as well. Would been a lot easier for those on limited budget if low/mid end cards could last (work well even with newer games) until EOL date. But that isn't profitable for those that sell you overpriced products.

Nvidia don't agree... MSRP a myth? NVIDIA says no, GeForce RTX 50 Series prices to stabilize soon Those on low budget buy cheaper cards as 200-300$ and play older/cheaper games.... But new times means mid range cards is now above $600. And newer AAA games demand better than low tier 200-300$ cards. It's for a reason we got Gaming In the Cloud. HW has become more expensive and lower end graphics cards struggle to give you an good experience with newer games people want to play.

Not so sure gamers will throw their money out the door on so called cheaper "new" 8GB cards anymore. They will spend more money than what they want forwards. The ASP will increase. Not due scalpers/greedy AIB partners but the cheaper options won't be a good choice. Gone is the days you would be happy with $500 purchase. And $500 cards will be seen as low end today.

Hmm. Not many newer cards is priced around $600 or below. And it has been like this a long time. Retailers selling base model RX 9070 GPUs at 22% markup compared to MSRP — 9070 XT now typically starts at $799

Sad seeing Intel go for a bean counter. This doesn't bode well... Intel hires former board member as new CEO Intel CEO’s Finance Background Might Be Behind 11% Share Price Jump Following Announcement Like his predecessor, Lip-Bu has extensive experience in the semiconductor industry. An MIT graduate, the new Intel CEO also has a background in finance through having worked at an investment and venture capital firms.

And it will be even more expensive. And what will happen when Trump also push tax tariffs over on the next location for HW manufacturers factories? China ain't the only place on the globe getting nice tax gifts from Trump. EU, in short all places get same treatments. Same will happen all over also in Asia countries where they moved away from China. Even Taiwan risk 100% tax tariffs. Higher prices is doomed to stay forwards. And that before the scalper taxes come on top. Asus anticipates price increases as it shifts production from China And congrats bro on the 5090 🙂 Very few contries get same treatment from Nvidia. US may get closer to what Nviidia will offer in China. Aka cards people can buy. It seems Nvidia have a lot 5090 FE cards to offer. I wonder how many chips nvidia keep for themself for the prioritized queue. Why bother with their own AIB partners ? LOOL... Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 may feature faster VRAM on laptops than on desktops

Can't say the same for Win 11😁 New is always better. And AMD want you to think so... @Mr. Fox AMD is the Nvidia in the processor world. Low competition due Intel's failure with Core Ultra means AMD will charge price premium for the 3D v-cashe chips. Same as Nvidia do with their fake frame feature package. Another AMD pricing disaster. GTX 1080Ti - 3rd place 3DMark Sky Diver😎 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_sky_diver/submissions/5804014?recalculate=true

Almost Norwegian prices. So it could be worse. If Trump add another 10% you will get real Norwegian prices in US. Who'm could imagine that. Egg prices in US is already on Norwegian level. And it will be worse. Years forwards. Same as here in Norway. First got the higher price level... It will stay. Same as for graphics cards. And tech companies that buy overpriced AI parts from Nvidia want their spent money back. Better the gamers got the silicon. Then we would avoided this trash from Redmond... Giant, AI ads are coming to Windows Copilot. Thanks, Microsoft Microsoft Advertising has shown off new ad formats that insert massive ads right into Copilot, alongside pilot programs to allow brands to create their own AI agents to sell you stuff. And here is one more nail in the Intel as gaming focuses brand... All they have is the single core crown (the main reason they removed HT for all their competing chips). Intel only own their own brand name now. They can't even make own chips. AMD added easly more gaming performance with their new flagship processors. No more need for the X branded Ryzen processors if you go with their X3D chips. It perform equal in all multi core workflow but perform even better in gaming. And Intel continue swimming backwards in a pool of baby cores meant for smartphones baked into their (gaming) flagship desktop processors. Of course phone/tablet processors don't support AVX512 as the real desktop cpu's does. Yup, Intel continue digging their own grave if they continue with their idiotic processor design. E-cores need to be removed...And HT need to come back. AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review: Stunning gaming performance meets top-tier productivity

And buy from a PSU brand that offer (are able to sell) original 8 pin to 12V-2x6 (12VHPWR) cables. MSI won't help you out here. You are stuck with what you bought. Vote with your wallet. LOL

Yup, equal stupid as this modern trend below. Only to cut down costs.

AMD know how to fix flawed thermal design... AMD has reportedly modified the TjMax of SK Hynix's GDDR6 for the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070: from 85º C as a sustained value to 108º C as a limit

Yet another (US) tech company that will do everything to enter the Chinese market. From before we have huge US companies as Microsoft, Nvidia and AMD. + many other tech companies. This Chinese market is very important, because it creating shortage that make their overpriced products even more expensive all over the world. So double win. Consumers lose. And feedom, democracy and free speech is in decline due greedy big tech companies... Seen here. Millions of user data in exchange for access in China Meta is said to have not shied away from setting up a censorship system to expand its activities in China. According to the report, her complaint documents that the social media giant was so desperate to enter the lucrative Chinese market that it wanted to enable the government there to monitor all social media content in the country and suppress dissenting opinions.

Fun facts. Asus don't have any prices for the non OC version on their store. That make them able to grab $10-15 USD more for the Astral SKUs. Hmm. That is unlikely. They added close to $300 premium for the air cooled version. Why add only $1 USD now for the LC? The LC version should be closer to $3799. Whats wrong with Asus when they chicken out on the LC ?

Hmmm. Asus added only $1 wimpy USD for the Astral OC LC sku. But increased the prices for the Air version from $3079.99 up to $3359,99. Why? To make the prices more equal for both the Astral OC SKUs? Or maybe they mean $3409 is close to max they can charge for any 5090 now? Edit. Better say.... More people buy the air cooled version... Hence that SKU got the massive price increase.

That PSU have 6x 8 pin connectors on the PSU panel. Slight better than the new normal with 5x8pin or less. You probably need to use one of the daisy chained 8 pin cables with the new "normal" PSUs if going with the better custom Radeon or older Nvidia GPUs. Not ideal but it's what it is. Modern times where the PSU manufacturers cut costs to implement the 12+4 pin disaster.

Nope. This below has to be the magic with that PSU. The 8 pin to 12V-2x6 cable😁 A lot better solution than offering two native 12V-2x6 connectors on the PSU panel. More PSU manufacturers should offer the same. I hope you find one in the package.

They would grab all 4090's they can get. And Chinese tech companies will just send an email to Jensen asking for more vram packages (almost as Jensen can sell the xx90 two times). 4090 will have 96GB vram and good to go for AI tasks. Cheaper than comming Blackwell with same amount ram for close to $15.000.

Hmmm. That's equal bad deal as for Aris vs Amazon😁 Both Nvidia and Amazon want to scam you. Edit. I wonder how many of all produced xx90 chips/cards goes into the China market. On top Nvidia already offer the D branded cards for gamers/creators if not the AI companies get them directly from the different GPU manufacturers. This getting out of hands. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090s Are Being Sold for Up to $5,000 in China’s Black Markets, Creating “Crypto-Like” Era Demand Chinese AI Firms Running DeepSeek Are Now Preferring NVIDIA's Consumer GPUs, Creating Demand Similar To Crypto-Mining Times

See the whole video as well 🙂