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Yep, BB hell. Nevermind the fact they're the only one with FE cards in the US. On a related note: Whew, managed to score an FE 5080! The order I pressed to confirm earlier that said "opps! there's a problem" and it went out of stock on BB like 90 min ago? I just got an update it was processed with an order number and is now in my order history. One down...... One to go.... Maybe.... 🤣 ----- I never made it to that point with the FE 5090. B&H hasn't launched their cards yet so keep an eye out on them too. As I'm sure you witnessed, Newegg sold out so fast it gave me whiplash.

A. Yeah, best buy goes like this: #1. Add to Cart #2. You're in line! #3. Sorry, something went wrong! or "Out of Stock" determined by inventory logistics #4. Add to Cart Button still on screen #5. Goto #1 B. If you manage to make it past this phase #1. Please verify order by logging in again #2. Here is your 2FA #3. Go to Check out #4. Opps something went wrong! #5. Goto #1 C. You actually make it to the final purchase screen #1. Place your order #2. Opps something went wrong! #3. Goto B else "That item is currently unavailable" This can happen over and over and over again. This was me earlier:

Oh yeah, I'm still refreshing and checking. Newegg is doing their bundle BS again trying to get rid of high inventory items. Waiting on B&H atm.... they still haven't released anything to inventory. I'll be on the lookout for Microcenter horror stories. My objective today is to: -------------------------------------------------------------------- #1. Score a FE 5080: after seeing Jufus's results and a few others showing the 5080 FE clocks like a monster and it is an ideal SFF card and cost per frame is a top 5 card giving . Now it has piqued my curiosity. The fact it uses the 5090 FE heatsink/fan and has more headroom power wise, this is going to be the sleeper hit this generation methinks. It fully puts the lid on AMD's coffin this generation and the 5090 just sits atop everything looking down with disdain at all the plebs below it including the 4090 🤣 NOTE: I'm glad to see both Gigabyte, Asus, PNY and MSI have 5080's at MSRP and match Nvidia's pricing. #2. Score a 5090 if the model I want crosses my screen (MSI Suprin, Liquid, FE, Astral). I'm really locking onto the MSI Suprim again for the 5090 either model will do but I prefer the air cooled one this time around if given a choice. FE for a SFF / easily swappable card but I'm thinking an FE 5080 for SFF fun and potentially a 5090 for desktop. I had a nice sell off of old gear and other household items the last three months of last year that fluffed up the tech-nest-egg quite nicely. --------------------------------------------------------------------- I can always fall back and pick up a 7900xtx for ~920 or lower brand new but looking at the results, a 5080 flat out beats it in raster and RT...well....we know..... I've tried the 7900xtx three times now (almost four. I sent back a factory sealed Taichi 7900xtx because of warranty issues / no bonus items) so I know what to expect. For let's say $700 used? I'd pick one up. --- At one point I had both an FE 5090 and 5080 in queue with BB but that went to poo. Gaming wise, if a 5080 gets me where I need to get for almost half the cost of the 4090 (and half the cost or more of a 5090), nice! If I decide to take a Jensen paddle to the fanny and score a 5090, nice! Doing this while the TG 8200 sticks are being dialed in at 2200/6400 CL30 next to me running TM5 90 min.🤣 I suspect @tps3443 is quietly pulling out his hair and banging up against trying to get a 5090. 🙂

Not in the least. My golden rule is if I can use hardware for X amount of years and recoup the entire cost, I am more than satisfied. I very much enjoyed my ~2yrs with my Liquid 4090, but I was ready to move onto something either cheaper or next gen. When I'm done with a product mentally, it has to GO! 🙂 There is no going back. Then the issue becomes trying to get back as close to what I bought it for as possible. 4090 achieved all those goals. Now it is old tech. 🤣 "Add to Cart" unfortunately means nothing in Best Buy speak. Until you actually check out and get an order number, the system will fail you over and over again. You can actually have it to the point of hitting "Buy/Purchase" and it still will go, "OPPPS! Something went wrong!" It is the biggest frustration with BB Going from "coming soon" to "sold out" was like....

Best Buy has their 5090's up now 11 different models to choose from.... TUF 5090 is listed at $1999.99? Whoa gotta be a mistake. It is listed further down at $2499

Lucky for them the 5080 to 5090 ratio tips nicely in the 5080's favor. I'm sure they're all there for one. 🙂

The big 5080 scam? This is an interesting take on Nvidia rephrasing the failed 4080 12GB into the 5080:

OMG, every single one of my MCs has a massive 4 in stock and the line at St Davids is already deep. Hope plenty of people are ready for their brand new shiny 5080. 🤣

I thought so too till I checked B&H's website: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?q=5090&sts=ma You will notice non MSI cards are open tomorrow for preorders/orders, while MSI cards says the 6th. The quote above says it's possible they will, but also entirely possible they won't. Hopefully tomorrow other US retailers have them available, but we will see.

Ditto with Best Buy. They had a few 5090's listed (if you know the URL or save it, you can get to it for now), but now it's just the FE and Gigabyte AORUS Master 5090 listed. FYI, the AORUS Master 5090 is $2529 at BB. Apparently Best Buy continues to refine their system to prevent bots and snipers. I know with the FE it is one per customer and that is for the life of the account for that card. When I bought a FE 4090 last year, I tried to purchase another one when it became available just to see if it was true and it is. Even months later, it wouldn't let me buy it saying I had already purchased one. I hope this extends to all their high demand GPUs now but we will see tomorrow.

So I take it MSI is off the table for all of us in the US till 06-02-2025 for 5090/5080? They aren't launching theirs till next week. Even B&H says preorders start on the 6th vs tomorrow.

I absolutely agree. When RT is an option, I always enable it. Once you see it in action you can immediately tell when you disable it. I've lost count how many times I've argued with WoW players trying to defend AMD and when they see their 7900xtx start performing like a 3080 w/ RT on their immediate response is, "it's a waste of time anyhow lulz. Turn it off!"

Depending on how tomorrow unfolds for us along with @tps3443 luck, I might be interested in your 4080 Super. Let's see how things go. 🙂 Cost per frame analysis at 4k. 4070 Super is a banger and 5080 is not doing too shabby either. At pure retail pricing, 4090 is only beaten for worse value by the original MSRP of the 4080. 5090 is obviously a bad buy for cost per frame too. I said it before and I'll say it again, especially depending on games played and if you do not care about RT, 7900xtx is not a bad card at all. Price is grossly unrealistic now though...$799.99 should be its new norm. 9070xt should be ~$649.95 and replace the 7900xt. 7900GRE is discontinued already. From my YT subs....a tale of two cities. I feel like Jufus is pandering a bit. One side of his mouth he "keeps it real," but other side he definitely wants those free items sent along with getting his viewers to keep funding his habit. I do not like it when some YT channels keep trying to reinforce that their view is the only way and everybody else is fake news to a degree while also shilling and patting themselves on the back way too often. This is his problem even though I do enjoy some of his content and agree with him half the time. At least he's tier 2 now and scored a 5080 FE and some items from Asus so far even with a ~35k sub count. Kudos to him!

I think the lack of availability but a high level of apathy coming off of the 4000 series coupled with a major price hike does have some rather indifferent (myself included). When tomorrow rolls around, I don't know what I'll pull the trigger on if anything. All I know is if nothing in the 5090 presents itself, there are other or no options. Like you, I'm thinking of holding onto my 4070 Super for a few reasons: The wife's 3080 Strix is officially out of warranty and has had a lot of gameplay on it for 3.5 years straight. Might be time to sell it and move on. This 4070 Super is a great clocker, runs quiet, sips power in comparison and zero coil whine. I also have zero desire to limp along with zero GPU and on my NH55 while I wait for something to say, "This is it!" 5090 is obviously in play 5080 suddenly is in play Relaxing with my 4070 Super while I let my choice organically manifest is in play A heavily discounted 7900xtx is in play A discounted 4080 Super is in play 9070XT still has an outside chance of being in play

lol, that's what I've been trying to say in previous posts. You're getting a better card for the same price even in the face of inflation. This goes across the entire Nvidia 5000 stack EXCEPT the 5090. In every segment so far from the 5070 to the 5080, you are getting more bang for your buck at either the same price or a lower price even. 7900XTX needs to drop to ~$799.99 to be properly competitive but I suspect $849.99 will be the new norm. 15% less and still a banger of a raster card. OR look at it like another Super refresh (Super TI?) that provides a marginal uplift, access to new technologies for the same or lesser price. It just slots in just like the Supers did. Those who are calling this generation the 40X0 Super TI refresh aren't wrong. Also the OC room and overall performance uplift is looking really good looking at Jufus's numbers. +25% on Firestrike? +18% on Timespy MaxOC vs MaxOC vs 4080? Within 1% of the 4090 on Firestrike? Only 11% slower than the 4090 MaxOC vs MaxOC on Timespy? For $999? Yeah..... 7900XTX needs to get real with itself real fast. Jufes hitting 3300mhz is pretty righteous and hopefully bodes well for other 5080's.

Considering it wasn't a leaker but an actual retailer who has 9070/xt's on hand (and in the picture) discussing they were supposed to launch last week but have been delayed now after Nvidia's announcement, I know who I trust and it isn't Azor. lol, you sound like a kid visiting Disney for the first time. 🙂 I like it! I'm indifferent and that is an odd place for me to be mentally. I finally realize why. I feel EXACTLY how I felt when the 2080ti was announced at those prices and when I rocked an AMD 5700xt for almost two years till I picked up a 3090. If I can shake this general disgust at the market and pointedly Nvidia, my order remains the same: #1. Suprim Air #2. Suprim AIO #3. FE #4. Astral (heh, right) I had the opportunity on launch day for the 4000 series to snag a Gigabyte and a lesser MSI but passed because for these prices, I'm not settling. Between the four models, I will snag whichever presents itself first on launch day if I pick one up or I will just opt to pass and not even look. When I say I'm on the fence, I'm on the fence. I'm also hoping for another substantial price drop on the 7900xtx's once the 5080's drop too so that's in play also. They've already come down 10-20% already.

As predicted, Nvidia's pricing was a shock to AMD's system. Initial pricing was to be ~$899 for the 9070XT which is INSANE but it looks like they were trying to keep the launch pricing of the 7900XT. They also were going to go for $749 for the non XT even. If I had to guess, I think they thought Nvidia was going to come in $100 higher (or caught wind it might) on the 5070ti vs $50 lower. I honestly don't know what they were thinking with the $749 on the non XT. Someone needs to drag AMD into an alleyway, put them up on the wall and say, "This ain't yer CPU division bub....you ain't Nvidia! Fix your $&*%!" https://videocardz.com/newz/retailer-confirms-powercolor-radeon-rx-9070-xt-red-devil-limited-edition-is-in-stock-talks-amd-pricing-strategy 7900xtx prices have dropped and continue to drop. Sapphire Nitro+ = $919. Pulse = $829 because they can't compete with the 5080 anywhere near their former prices and had a rough go even against the 4080 Super. I'm watching and if the Nitro drops below 900 beans I might have to snatch one up. I've been purposely running WoW at 4k Ultra 10 + RT on the 4070 Super the last week to really get a taste of that lower fps life and logging gpu usage to really get an idea of the sweet spot before I return it Friday and a 7900xtx is ~50% more powerful than the 4070 Super with the newest drivers. Obvious a 5090 would immediately introduce the mother of all CPU bottlenecks....

Plus I've just had such good luck with MSI overall the last several years from their products to their warranty services. Even this MSI Ventus 3x 4070 Super is so quiet under load and no coil whine (but again, that might be my PSU helping out I realize). Suprim is definitely #1 on my list. EVGA will always be #1 on my list....in my heart 💔 30th is right around the corner. Still debating if I want one and if I want to venture out to Microcenter.

The pros of the 5080 that even Nvidia recognized is that it is marginally faster than the 4080 Super. They also kept the price the same instead of raising it even in the face of inflation and past trends. I think we keep forgetting that. You are getting a newer card, with newer features that is 10-15% faster for the same price. $999.99 in 2022 is $1059 in today's money Unlike classic Nvidia they didn't raise the price of the card You are getting more performance than before I think Nvidia knows this is a soft cycle and they need a newer architecture and a node shrink for next time. In Intel speak, in the land of Tick-Tock, this is definitely Tick-Tick land. This is also why they lowered the price of the 5070ti and kept the 5070 the same as last gen. Last gen launch vs this gen launch: 3070($499)->4070($549) = 10% price hike. 4070-5070= same price 3070ti($599)->4070ti($799) = ~33% price hike. 4070ti($799)->5070ti($749) = ~7% price reduction 3080($699)->4080($1199) = ~33% price hike. 4080($1199) ->5080 ($999) = ~20% price reduction 3090($1499)->4090($1599) = ~7% hike. 4090($1599) ->5090 ($1999) = ~25% price HIKE 5090 is where the real shanking is taking place. Everywhere else you're getting more for less actually even the 5070 with inflation calculated in.

Did Galax officially cancel the HOF or is it just a rumor?

Astral 5090 vs Strix 4090 for Coil Whine: The coil whine on the Strix 4090 is the soul crushing, ear destroying type that sends any card right back or to the for sale forums / ebay. Astral is still annoying, but nowhere near on the same level as that Strix. That is how my 3090 FE sounded. ---- It seems just about every reviewer made note of the coil whine of the 5090 FE which now has me very wary but de8auer's review where he holds the mic up to it shows it's not nearly as bad as previous FEs or even as bad as the Astral. ------------------- That's how I look at it too. 34gbps is pretty hefty but overall these cards are coming off the line already pushing limits ala Intel style. basically 600w out the door. Let's be realistic here. For me, my favorites have now changed to (in order): Suprim AOC Suprim Liquid Astral FE It is the same cycle again. Just like the 4080 wasn't really an upgrade for 3090 owners. Only upgrade for a 4090 owner is again another 090 class card. You either break the cycle by skipping a few generations and picking up an 080 or even 070 class card, or you keep lining up for the next 090 card: I personally don't think there will be a 5090ti with those full fat dies being earmarked for their AI targeted cards and a $3k+ Titan but.... If Nvidia released a 5090ti, it would fall into their TI cadence though. 1080 was followed up the next year with a 1080ti 2080ti was launched and stayed top dog 3090 was followed up a year and a half later with the 3090ti 4090 was launched and stayed top dog 5090 = ????? I said it before and I'll say it again. Nvidia aspires to be Apple. They want to control the entire supply chain and they are pushing just as hard to release CPUs as GPUs to sell the complete, integrated package. They don't want AIBs but need them still and each generation they continue to abuse them with draconian control measures and destroy their margins causing their prices to keep going up for us end users to purchase. Nvidia is top dog and they know it. AMD has absolutely nothing to offer at the upper end so Nvidia can price things however they want and with AI booming, we get the defective dies/chopped down cores on the 5090 and the Titan and AI segment get the full fat cores. ---- As consumers we vote with our wallets and that's that. When, collectively, we stop buying enough to make a dent on their bottom line and the bean counters sound the alarm, THAT is when they will take their boot off our throats if only a smidge. Till then? Business as usual.

Ugh, the more you buy the more noise you get? $2800 is absolute insanity. With tax = $2985.50 here so $3k for a video card.... THAT. IS. NUTZ. !! That is well over $1000 more than I paid for my Suprim Liquid 4090 after tax. It makes the Suprim look like the sweet spot at $2557.94 after tax lol Gigabyte at $2249 is "only" a 12.5% markup over MSRP or an extra $266.55 out of my pocket.... So the Astral rules supreme (so far) in PCB VRMS/robustness this time around? Boooooo Suprim is a chonker though in the best way. And yeah, the way they're pushing up against the wall, those two extra stages won't really make or break anything.

I laughed out loud over this one. 🤣 In all honesty, we were all Sheeple the moment we ponied up $1500 for a 3090 and $2k for a KPE...... Or when we ponied up $1600+ for a 4090..... Cards moved for Ampere and Ada priced at $2k so Nvidia and AIBs keep pushing upward till they feel a noticeable loss in sales like the 4080 and retreated back down to $999 with the 5080 and have stayed there even this cycle along with lowering prices on the 5070ti and keeping the 5070 the same price. It shows Nvidia bean counters respond to market forces like consumer spending limits and AMD. 5090? Zero competition. Zero need to compete price wise. AIBs? Getting in on the money grab. 40% markup for Asus this time with the Astral vs 25% before with the Strix. MSI? 25% markup vs less than 10% before with the Suprim.

5090 is screaming for a FormD T1 type case with the GPU mounted at the top and inverted to exhaust out the top of the case. Coupled with a 9800X3D with air cooling low profile style and both tuned with a perfect undervolt and that would be a wrecker of a portable system. I'll be curious to see what optimum does with his for a sff build since his build out with a 4090 is absolutely insanity in size, performance, cooling and noise.