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JTWrenn said:
It's a LITTLE late for THAT!
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We're only a couple weeks out from launch. Give it some time. Literally every new release gets scalped these days. Even the B580 and that's an entry level card. At least Nvidia is pretending to care about gamers and that's more than you can say about Newegg conning thousands of people to create accounts and give up their data so they can spam your email with overpriced PC components, just for the chance that they'll sell you a GPU at scalper prices. How anyone still uses Newegg is beyond me.

The program actually makes sense as Nvidia isn't losing out any profit by ensuring the cards go to gamers instead of scalpers that buy out Best Buy's stock.

I signed up for it but only because I'd already planned on buying a 4080 super anyways, but didn't when prices shot up with the lack of supply, although I refuse to pay a penny over $999 for it. If I get picked I guess I'll buy a 5080. If not I'll just wait and see what happens with the 9070xt. No big deal.
 
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Oh good. Now, if only I were independantly wealthy, then maybe I could spend a small nation's GDP to cop a gfx adapter...
 
nogaard777 said:
We're only a couple weeks out from launch. Give it some time. Literally every new release gets scalped these days. Even the B580 and that's an entry level card. At least Nvidia is pretending to care about gamers and that's more than you can say about Newegg conning thousands of people to create accounts and give up their data so they can spam your email with overpriced PC components, just for the chance that they'll sell you a GPU at scalper prices. How anyone still uses Newegg is beyond me.

The program actually makes sense as Nvidia isn't losing out any profit by ensuring the cards go to gamers instead of scalpers that buy out Best Buy's stock.

I signed up for it but only because I'd already planned on buying a 4080 super anyways, but didn't when prices shot up with the lack of supply, although I refuse to pay a penny over $999 for it. If I get picked I guess I'll buy a 5080. If not I'll just wait and see what happens with the 9070xt. No big deal.
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Newegg are a retailer. They care about monies. Nvidia, on the other hand, should very much be concerned that their market base are being fleeced. Your 'no big deal' is a very privileged position, coming from someone who builds ENTIRE COMPUTERS for the cost of one of these stupid cards
 
nogaard777 said:
We're only a couple weeks out from launch. Give it some time. Literally every new release gets scalped these days. Even the B580 and that's an entry level card. At least Nvidia is pretending to care about gamers and that's more than you can say about Newegg conning thousands of people to create accounts and give up their data so they can spam your email with overpriced PC components, just for the chance that they'll sell you a GPU at scalper prices. How anyone still uses Newegg is beyond me.

The program actually makes sense as Nvidia isn't losing out any profit by ensuring the cards go to gamers instead of scalpers that buy out Best Buy's stock.

I signed up for it but only because I'd already planned on buying a 4080 super anyways, but didn't when prices shot up with the lack of supply, although I refuse to pay a penny over $999 for it. If I get picked I guess I'll buy a 5080. If not I'll just wait and see what happens with the 9070xt. No big deal.
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Totally missed my point. This should have been in place at launch, not after the initial scalper rush. It was also a joke, but oh well.
 
Write something nice to your mother.
Grab the phone and call up an old friend to whom you have not spoken for years.
Dust off that book you never got around to reading.
Help a neighbor.
Any one of these things just might improve your life more than an additional +12,4%FPS
and none of them cost an additional $1000.
It is free of cost to leave the hamster wheel of +pixels + frames +pixels + frames...
/dadlecture
 
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Mathrawkee said:
Newegg are a retailer. They care about monies. Nvidia, on the other hand, should very much be concerned that their market base are being fleeced. Your 'no big deal' is a very privileged position, coming from someone who builds ENTIRE COMPUTERS for the cost of one of these stupid cards
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That "no big deal" means in the end I don't care if I buy another GPU or not, because I refuse to get ripped off.
 
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