• Ulrich@feddit.org
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      It’s a huge gamble for manufacturers to order a large allocation of wafers a year in advance of actual retail sales. The market can shift considerably in that time. They probably didn’t expect Nvidia to shit the bed so badly.

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      Wait, are you saying if they had more product, they could sell more product?

      Sounds like voodoo economics to me!

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      I had luck with Microcenter last week (if you have one near you); checked their website at my preferred location and they had 9070 XTs in stock, went after work and I got one.

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        I have one about an hour away and no luck so far at that location.

        Edit: oh damn, they are in stock today!

        Edit2: it was one and now its gone :(

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          I got mine on a Thursday FWIW. The employees didn’t even know they had them in stock, they had to pull it out of a case in the back; had to have been an afternoon truck delivery

          Also it is goddamned wonderful as a GPU 😍 ive been replaying Far Cry 6 with maxed out… everything. At 4k, and I’ve got roughly 100 FPS stable. Its absolutely gorgeous

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          If you really wanna get one and it’s in stock, reserve it for pick up, they’ll hold it for like 3 days and you don’t have to pay until you actually go get it, in case you change your mind or can’t make it in that time.