GeForce RTX 50 Series Sees Price Hikes Across Asia, NVIDIA Cancels Pre-Price-Change Order, and One Retailer Says Buy Now, Supply Is Unstable

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Forget the connector; the real meltdown for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 series could be the consumer market as prices jump across Asia. It’s been rumored that price hikes were inbound for the RTX 50 series thanks to NVIDIA reportedly having told its partners that memory kit bundles would cost more moving forward, and we’re now […]

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This sucks for anyone that was wanting a 5090 but decided to wait for prices to drop for the next gen to come out. I bought when I did specifically because I didn't see prices coming down and I don't see a next gen card to compete with the 5090 for QUITE some time.

This sucks for current owners as well because if you need a warranty claim you'll probably get a refund and asked to re buy at the higher cost.
 
The worst thing has been nvidia's attitude towards its customers. Started from the 4090 days when EVGA bailed out because nvidia was being very rude to them despite EVGA being a great company for consumers for so many years.
 
Grimlakin said:
This sucks for current owners as well because if you need a warranty claim you'll probably get a refund and asked to re buy at the higher cost.
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This has been my biggest worry with my rigs and laptop. All great at what they do, and I managed to get what I needed at, or close to MSRP and consider myself very lucky even if there was some added interest while I paid them off. However, they are all looking to be very longterm investments now and I really doubt I'll be able to afford any successor(s) for them when any become available.
 
I am hoping this won't be the death knell of the DIY Personal Computer, but I'm really afraid that this might be the end of the road. Support and enthusiasm has been on a downhill trajectory for a long time now. Not from you guys, of course, we are the enthusiasts around here - just in terms of general population and companies willing to make products for this niche.
 
Brian_B said:
I am hoping this won't be the death knell of the DIY Personal Computer, but I'm really afraid that this might be the end of the road. Support and enthusiasm has been on a downhill trajectory for a long time now. Not from you guys, of course, we are the enthusiasts around here - just in terms of general population and companies willing to make products for this niche.
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I think that sometimes then I walk into a microcenter.

I don't think it's a death knell as a while but it is a direct shrinkage.
 
Brian_B said:
I still haven't seen one of these mythical stores....
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They are very nice... My youngest (at 30) decided to start college to pursue a degree in architecture and their 6+ year old MBP wouldn't cut it...

Went and got them an MSI gaming laptop with 32 gigs of ram the new pro intel CPU, a RTX 5080 16gb, a little docking station, Razor KB, Mouse, and Headset, as well as a 27 inch 4k IPS monitor for their work. Fingers crossed it all go's well. Out the door was just under 4k all told with a 2 year warranty from Microcenter (which is not bad for what all it covers.)

It's nice having one less than 30 min away... but also no nice lol.
 
Grimlakin said:
Went and got them an MSI gaming laptop with 32 gigs of ram the new pro intel CPU, a RTX 5080 16gb, a little docking station, Razor KB, Mouse, and Headset, as well as a 27 inch 4k IPS monitor for their work. Fingers crossed it all go's well.
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You were going great till you got the IPS monitor. Now the future architect will suffer from backlight bleed nightmares :D
 
I used to have to drive 3 hours to get to a Micro Center. Several years ago they started showing up in my state, including one about 20 minutes from me. Ironically that particular one replaced a CompUSA. Quite the upgrade, if you ask me.
 
igor_kavinski said:
You were going great till you got the IPS monitor. Now the future architect will suffer from backlight bleed nightmares :D
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If the light bleed is a problem the laptop is OLED and I wasn't about to spend OLED money on an external monitor. lol.
 
Brian_B said:
I am hoping this won't be the death knell of the DIY Personal Computer, but I'm really afraid that this might be the end of the road. Support and enthusiasm has been on a downhill trajectory for a long time now. Not from you guys, of course, we are the enthusiasts around here - just in terms of general population and companies willing to make products for this niche.
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The problem is, building a top end rig (a favorite hobby of mine for over 20 years) is no longer viable. Top end motherboards are over $1,000. Quality PSU's are $250+, 32GB of DDR5 6000MHz RAM is $350+, higher performance SSDs at 4TB sizes are $1,200+, 5090's are $5,500+. CPU's are the one area where we aren't getting totally fleeced these days. Even then, overclocking is largely dead so your still in it for $400+.

A friend of mine bought a laptop with a mobile 5090 in it for $3,600 at Microcenter the other day. Performance on mobile parts isn't 1:1 with their desktop counterparts but the prices are much easier to stomach. When you can buy a desktop replacement style laptop at less than the cost of a single 5090, it's pretty hard to justify a DIY setup at these prices.

We are being squeezed everywhere else on top of that. Electricity, cars, interest rates, housing, and everything else has gone up faster than normal over the last few years.
 
Dan_D said:
We are being squeezed everywhere else on top of that. Electricity, cars, interest rates, housing, and everything else has gone up faster than normal over the last few years.
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But think of.the poor corporations just barely eeking out billions in profit!!!!
 
Dan_D said:
A friend of mine bought a laptop with a mobile 5090 in it for $3,600
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I went for a slightly higher end of one of these last fall, just before things reached the current levels of insanity, 18" 1500 nits G-sync screen, 64 GB memory, 2 TB NVMe, with an added slot that I moved a 4TB from my old laptop to, for ~$4200. Most I ever spent, or will, and extremely happy with it. Insane amount of money but finally got the portable PC I always wanted. Price has gone up but here it is for spec reference.

Amazon.com: GIGABYTE AORUS Master 18 Gaming Laptop - 240Hz 2560x1600 Mini-LED - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX - 2TB SSD with 64GB DDR5 RAM - Windows 11 Home AD (AORUS Master 18 BZHC6USD45SH) : Electronics

Amazon.com: GIGABYTE AORUS Master 18 Gaming Laptop - 240Hz 2560x1600 Mini-LED - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX - 2TB SSD with 64GB DDR5 RAM - Windows 11 Home AD (AORUS Master 18 BZHC6USD45SH) : Electronics
www.amazon.com
 
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