The jokes on me ... 5090 purchase

[V8VENOM]

I foolishly attempted to buy a 5090 this morning 6am PST as I was notified by nVidia that's when they can go on sale (everywhere apparently).

I tried several websites, nVidia Shop, B&H Photo, Best Buy, NewEgg ... nada.

Best Buy
Exactly at 6am, after a refresh ,I got the Add to Cart button, then I got a popup saying I was "inline and stay on page", so I did, then about 3 minutes later I got "Something went wrong" and that was that.

nVidia Shop

B&H Photo
At least they implement BOT detection, but nothing showed as being available despite their sales rep telling me they would have some by 6am PST.

NewEgg
Nothing every showed up, not even listing 5090.

After a "decade" of this BS and nVidia clearly not providing enough supply on purpose so that scalpers can scalp and scammers can scam. It's not like nvidia don't know what the demand will be like ... year after year after year, this isn't a surprise to them or anyone. So at what point do you give up on a company and say "I'm done". SSDD

This isn't about supply and demand, that got tossed out the window years ago. Believe it or not, there was a time where customers could buy products on release day, so what happened? At what point did these companies decide "limited production" was a better option for them?

FYI: 6:42am and the nVidia Shop is still down. B&H Photo apparently never got any. NewEgg never got any. And it seems Best Buy got single digits?

 

[COLGeek]

Moved to a more appropriate section as this is not a graphics card issue, per se.

 

[V8VENOM]

On a side note, I bought an AMD 7900XT instead (below MSRP) and then purchased a corsair water block for the 7900XT.

AMD finally have a release date for the 9070XT at March 20th and they've indicated there will be plenty of supply. I'm done playing games (no pun intended) with nVidia ... may they rot in hell along with their massive investment into AI that isn't really AI.

 

[COLGeek]

I suspect the early stock of 9070XTs will go pretty quickly, too. FOMO is a strong force that drives demand by early adopters.

In time, these waves smooth out.

 

[logainofhades]

I fought bots for several weeks to get my RX 6800 back in '21, from AMD direct, during the shortages, so I kinda understand your frustration. There's been some shortage of high end GPU's in general, the last couple months. Every new release, be it AMD, Intel, or Nvidia, the stock at launch tends to be quite low. People still have trouble getting B580's at MSRP, a month and a half after launch.

 

[V8VENOM]

I guess I'll find out in March if they provide enough stock to retailers as indicated. I think they will be able to retain stock for a few days as I'm sure more people will buying up 5080 and 5090s so demand will be much less by March.

 

[Gururu]

If microcenter carries them, they appear to post restock 10-1030pm on Saturdays.

 

[V8VENOM]

to get my RX 6800 back in '21, from AMD direct

I had no problem getting my AMD 7950X, 7950X3D, and 9950X CPU direct from AMD ... along with my 7900XTX on release day.

 

[COLGeek]

I had no problem getting my AMD 7950X, 7950X3D, and 9950X CPU direct from AMD ... along with my 7900XTX on release day.

Post COVID, AMD has made some improvements. Still, there were issues when released.

 

[V8VENOM]

If microcenter carries them

The irony is that nVidia's Shop takes you directly to Microcenter which doesn't allow online purchases of the 5090 ... it's laughable.

 

[Eximo]

Microcenter has decent coverage of population density these days. Deep South, Northwest, and the SouthWest (Excepting California) being left out.

Even for me, nearest is about 30 minutes away. Actually hard to justify the savings vs just getting it shipped a lot of the time. It would have to be a GPU or CPU/Motherboard combo at least for me. Most other things have to be price matched since they love to tack on about $10-30 on most every other product.

I've only gone out of my way once to go there. Other times it was convenient because I was already on that side of town.

 

[V8VENOM]

I like Microcenter … unfortunately closest store to me is about 11 hours away or 3 hours by air. I do question why Microcenter has so few stores in CA (just 1), but 4 stores in NY and 3 stores in Ohio? CA’s GDP is highest in the US (more people with more money to buy more computer equipment).

I’m pretty sure the real reason distribution is limited is due to MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, PNY, etc. demanding some ability to make a profit. Remember EVGA left the GPU market because of tiny margins offered by nVidia. I believe nVidia’s “solution” to the resellers/retailers was to limit supply so the resellers/retailers could demand higher prices and hence more a profit. Boils down to $$$ as always and manipulation of the market to provide for the higher profit margins for retailers/resellers.

nVidia certainly have the fabrication and resources to provide more than enough to meet demand.

Anyway, beating a dead horse, SSDD for nVidia releases and market manipulation.

 

[USAFRet]

I do question why Microcenter has so few stores in CA (just 1), but 4 stores in NY and 3 stores in Ohio?

Expansion happens slowly.

 

[Eximo]

They are opening a second in California this year, Santa Clara.

New York / New Jersey does have some density going for it. Ohio is actually the 7th most populous state, but more importantly, cities like Columbus are amongst the largest, and Cincinnati and Cleveland aren't that small. Mostly logistics I would imagine. Indianapolis was only opened in 2023 which isn't that far from Cincinnati.

 

[80251]

I like Microcenter … unfortunately closest store to me is about 11 hours away or 3 hours by air. I do question why Microcenter has so few stores in CA (just 1), but 4 stores in NY and 3 stores in Ohio? CA’s GDP is highest in the US (more people with more money to buy more computer equipment).

I’m pretty sure the real reason distribution is limited is due to MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, PNY, etc. demanding some ability to make a profit. Remember EVGA left the GPU market because of tiny margins offered by nVidia. I believe nVidia’s “solution” to the resellers/retailers was to limit supply so the resellers/retailers could demand higher prices and hence more a profit. Boils down to $$$ as always and manipulation of the market to provide for the higher profit margins for retailers/resellers.

nVidia certainly have the fabrication and resources to provide more than enough to meet demand.

Anyway, beating a dead horse, SSDD for nVidia releases and market manipulation.

It could be that microcenter limits their exposure to the vast shoplifting epidemics that have plagued California due to lax enforcement/prosecution of such crimes.

 

[punkncat]

I sure do feel for you having to wait like the rest of the plebes for a super expensive high level graphics card that might save mere seconds on a workload or add 3 frames to WoW for you while using up half the watts of an average home in energy (so green).

1st World problems are SO hard. Hope you don't have to spend the 5090 money in counseling.

😉

/sarcasm