Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC is prepared to raise the cost of chip production by 15% of its current cost for all the chips it makes. The potential action, as you can imagine, is a response to US President Trump’s ongoing tariff implementation.

X870E taichi, 2599

I hope it turns into a total recall. Then they can quietly fix their moronic power delivery system too.

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WTF? RM9499 for TUF model?

The ASUS distributors MSRP for RTX ASTRAL 5080 model is RM8000.

ASTRAL model is better performing model than TUF.

TUF model supposed to be priced at RM6,899

At this point 5000series is a joke when none of the GPU family could beat the next tier from previous generation. But Nvidia is fully aware how bad these are deswai they pull back 4000series from market prior to its launch so gamers have no choice but to buy overpriced latest gen. Unlike their blunder of keeping 3000series on sale for quite some time which help to dampen the sales of 4000series. Jensen knew better than repeat that mistake which helped budget gamers.

While surpising they dare do that expecting customers not to find out, its not unexpected. As I said before, Nvidia will try to push out as many chips with the highest margins as much possible. In the past these defect chips will be downbinned to lower grades (5080 -> 5070TI) but due to huge demand, Nvidia will try to sell these as 5080s anyhow.

Yeah, this is official MSRP.


https://www.nvidia.com/en-my/geforce/graphi...ards/50-series/

You be the judge!

Interestingly now just RM 200 distro scalper fee above this model MSRP and its available ala carte 

Indeed, even though I bought nvidia gpu from Dotatech, I also believe Dotatech is scalping stuff.

Disappointed since I often bought stuff from them.

Update:
On the other hand.

https://www.digitimes.com.tw/tech/dt/n/shwn...07LPQ3SR6FJ290O
Price RTX 50 series graphics cards will be increased by 5~10%.

is it better to upgrade pc now before tariff kicks in or wait?
in prep for gta 6 which probably for another 2/3 years for pc release. i dont think my  8700k+1080ti can hold up anymore

2022. LOL its about the same price for a 3060 12GB back in 2022 when I was building my rig, so to those who bought 3060s back then should rejoice your GPU did not depreciate in pricing at all!

One of our readers noticed a “line” or “gap” in this image. That was as much as the cable could go in on our specific RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition. You can also clearly spot this “line” or “gap” at the connector in the video at the 0:12 mark. In the video, we had the RTX 5090 running for over 20 minutes at 100% usage. No burn, no smoke issues. Temps were fine (below 78 Celsius with auto fan), and power draw was correct.