Pauls Hardware put out a suspicion which I also do agree in that one of the reason why global shortage of 5090s & 5080s is happening due to AIBs and brands are frontloading & hoarding stocks of hardware into the USA to beat Trump tariffs dateline. Its quite similar to AMD are stockpiling 9070s GPU but holding onto the launch.



But the scalping and scam bundling are also in USA where Amazon prices are scalping and Newegg are only doing bundling deals with 5000 GPUs. Karma is a bitch and now USA folks are tasting what we felt.

Which shop you decided to put your money?

But someone said Trump tariffs dont affect us wor...

Samsung was pretty bad. Its why Nvidia switch back to TSMC and never looked back.

Yeah as I point out, even USA doing this bundling and system only deals. Seems like USA & EU distros have learned from us. We must be pioneers in many ways to screw buyers. Malaysia Boleh tu!

Nope, newegg has went the bundling only deals. And bestbuy seems like the smallest of these stores so their constantly oos

Gotta wait until the heat dies down my fren

Sekenhen is the best time to get my fren. Most value price/perf.

MSI is busy raising prices
https://www.techpowerup.com/332164/asus-msi...5090-5080-msrps

So true!

Was in Akiba late last year and looked at the latest Scythe Fuma 3 cooler selling for RM 150. The closest I see in Msia is Mugen 6 (same price as Fuma3 in JP) but priced at RM 296! LOL nearly double WTF!

Msians getting ripped off with overpriced hardware to a point its prolly cheaper flying to the most expensive asian country and get your rig than supporting the locals. If only I dont care about the warranty....

This hype will continue as long as distros artificially strangle the market thru short supply and kaotim with resellers to push bundle deals with unsold trash. Some im okay like bundling with good 850W PSU but not trashy Giga firestarters they cannot sell due to their reputation.

Afaik, Nvidia have fixed priced contracts for GPU chips to AIB but every gen the quantum increases a lot mainly due to TSMC also increase the price of chip die (esp big dies ie GB202, AD102, etc). These cost increases passes on to AIB with each gen, which then goes onto GPU prices increases but also these AIB take advantage to markup if other things (VRAM, mosfets) goes up too, and of course 1st party scalping like Asus & MSI recently.

The problem and what riles EVGA, is the allocation pie for nos of GPU chips I believe, and EVGA being one of the 'smaller' AIBs (vs Asus, MSI, Giga) meant they got a small slice of that pie. Not happy with such bullying, the owner decided to be done for all and closing shop.

Ironically the scalping from artificial shortages by cartels, the bundling BS, the constant price inceases which never comes down even when cost has reduce, its all very familiar to us Msians in our daily lives and at least now the world is suffering with us (in a limited way). Haha.

Also when said Nvidia limiting supply for GPU its like say:
2021 - Gaming GPU 70%, AI whatnot 30%
2025 - Gaming GPU 40%, AI whatnot 60% (this is why we have shortages)

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Feb 19 2025, 02:46 PM

Launching ≠ start on sale. Might have to wait when they get stocks.

I like your optimism

Lets see in another 3 months. My bet is even after 6 months things will be the same.

Provided you can still get 4080S... which you cant anymore. So your have to eat that 5070Ti overprices

Good? It barely matches 4080S and loses in some areas. For a meaningful gen on gen uplift it should be soundly beating the 4080S but it doesnt. And now even price match 4080S. Its basically 4080S perf at 4080S money, one year later, with shortages that you wouldnt have if you bought a 4080S beforehand.

Ventus supposely the MSRP lineup but then 'MSRP' has no meaning anymore. Its scalpy but if you need it what choice you have?

Harga brapa?

IF you dont mind Colorful can try asking Myway. But he says its via preorder and bundle with casing (easy to sell or throwaway)

EDIT: At this level, why not wait for 9070XT? Predicted around 7900XT perf so nearly on par with 5070TI



But due to their stockpiling likely will have more than sufficient stocks and also pricing supposedly much cheaper than 5070TI.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Feb 20 2025, 05:54 PM

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