They can change the marketplace for their market. Waiting lists and numbered pre-orders have been around as long as e-commerce has. Its not difficult to implement something that says “order now and we will ship one the moment it is available”.
Yes, but they have contracts with their retail partners. Depending on how those contracts are set up, they might not be able to add such a feature.
Nvidia offers a huge assortment of cards for sale on their website, both reference FE and AIB models.
Look into undervolting it.
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Apparently there are some driver and stability issues with the new 50X cards too… 
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Just another reason I purchase a new GPU at launch. I normally wait about 3-6 months to buy one. They also seem to be easier to buy as well.
retail contracts? We have sold online and in store for two decades. In store you have the landed/FOB, MAP and release date with a PO based on that. Online for someone like Amazon, the AIBs run their own stores via FBA.
Those are all retail partners. A retail partner is a store, whether online or brick-and-mortar, that has a contract with Nvidia, allocating a specific amount of product for each launch. Subsequently, brick-and-mortar stores distribute a certain amount of the product to specific locations.
You may want to look up what a PO is rather than just make up stuff about how retail works. Nvidia’s contracts are with the AIBs even the FE are made by partners just labeled Nvidia. They all handle any POs directly or through a wholesaler depending on market. We also sell in large brick and mortar stores as I stated above.
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Predictions anyone for the state of Nvidia cards in another month? Will there be any that haven’t incinerated?
They will be readily available in about a year, give or take. Honestly, it is the same situation with video game consoles.
being an early adopter gives you bragging right on performance but also means you are doing free QC too often when compared to mature tech
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After looking at the Nvidia interviews about the 50 series FE models, I don’t think this is true anymore.
They might be outsourcing the manufacture of the cards, but there’s a lot to suggest the FE cards are being designed in-house by Nvidia now.
designed, yes. Manufactured, no. Could be foxconn or even PC partner (who make a lot of cards for other brands)
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Its foxconn. It’s actually on the shipping lables of the freight cartons.
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I’m also running a 3090 for now since the 5080 was having major artifacting issues.
I’m curious, what CPU are you running and what’s your fps like in the city, outside the city, and in dungeons and raids? I feel like my frames are low even after spending hours tuning clock speeds and voltages.
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what CPU and RAM do you have?
I’m running a Ryzen 5900x with Corsair vengeance DDR4 3600MHz C18
should be decent FPS, what are you seeing and at what resolution?
My computer is relatively old and along with the 3090 it has an Intel i9 10900 CPU. It also has 64 GB RAM and two SSDs. To be honest, I only ever experienced any choppiness only once and it was in a specific area (I don’t remember which one) and has never happened again since then. Even during large raids where there are all sorts of particle effects going off, everything seems to run smooth as silk. Admittedly though, I have never bothered to measure my FPS, so I couldn’t tell you what it is. I can only say that my experience playing WoW, has been smooth and pleasant. That, by the way, is with settings all cranked up to max.