When I woke up last night for the first time, somewhere around three in the morning, I checked the phone to see if online stores have already published and sold out their AMD Actions of up-to-date RX 9070 XT graphics cards, which carried with them the promise of the premiere of the GPU, which would be At last Keep a lot of equipment on hand. Too early. At 5:45 I woke up again and saw that they would be on sale in 15 minutes. This time don’t go back to sleep.
I have already made sure that I have information about credit cards at Amazon, Nevengg and Best Buy. I had the exclusive model of the MSRP Best Buy card from XFX, with a notification set in the Ping Me application when it went on sale. At 6:00, sitting in bed in the murky, I taught the list. He hanged on the blinding white screen. I withdrew and tapped again. This time he loaded. 6:01: sold out.
I have never received a notification. Has it ever been available?
Some crazy search in the next few minutes have not yet found a letter to Amazon, only the most high-priced board cards in the B&H photo and a number of options for Newgg. The glow of hope that I saw a 600 $ card available at Nevenggi Fizzz, when the website has logged in again, apparently forgetting my certificates in the last six hours, and died 30 seconds later on the cash register. Cool.
So I did what many of us do when our plans go to hell: I started to negotiate with myself. I decided that I would buy only 9070 XT RX each 600 USD, its intended price, because this price made it such a good purchase, victory over the impossible to get nvidia-rtx 5070 ti. But at the moment I was caught. I really wanted a up-to-date graphics card.
Newgg still had ASUS Card 720 USD shares. Another USD 120 for 60 MHz evaluation, which I have never noticed? As for the devil. I bought it, I got e -mail with confirmation and returned to sleep. At least I got a card, right?
NO. Newgg canceled my order shortly after I placed it, “was annulled because of insufficient supply.”
Further launch of the GPU
Nothing in this experience has made that exceptionally cursed – if anything, now it is so normal that everyone in the hobby of computer games, that we seem to almost give up it. Why get mad at the process that seems completely in vain?
AMD has The Verge said that more RX 9070 graphics cards will be available in MSRP, stating that “it is inaccurate that 549 USD/599 USD MSRP is only starting prices.” It is contrary to Swedish and British retailers, What says prices are rising After the first shipment of cards and the actual manufacturer, who told us that their own recommended prices are rising after the price of launch in the first 24 hours.
AMD did not provide details about the number of cards actually sold for USD 600 (I suppose: quite a miniature part!) And shot its answer “excluding tariffs and/or taxes in the region”. For everyone in the US, this means that the great stupid tariff of our huge president for Chinese imports will almost certainly escalate prices.
Considering absolute Shitshow, trying to buy a graphics card, it was thanks to bottters, assholes Rejecting your cards on ebayAND Comical prodigal expenses for artificial intelligenceWe really didn’t need lend a hand.
Our hobby deserves better than companies that have reached billions on the back of computer games.
All signs indicate the premiere of RX 9070 with many more stocks than any of the recent declines of NVIDIA RTX 50 cards, but does it matter when there are so many desperate people to buy graphics cards without re -death? When are the huge production containers for GPU production for AI Server Farms farms, which technology companies fall on themselves to absorb? So that they can illegally scrape (theft) more original work from the Internet, all in servicing really uninteresting e -mail for you or To sum up?
We should not give up this, because to be candid, it is too embarrassing and annoying to just fall over and accept.
NFT could be stupid enough so that we could collect collectively the existence, but the entire technological economy is now involved in AI, and even if the amazing and changing life ends, and all things that were promised without breath, in the meantime it still bothers us that we are able to buy some damn graphics cards.
Our hobby deserves better than companies that have achieved billions on the back of computer games, and better deserves retailers who simply move their arms every time their sites are promoted or the Botters collect all their actions when they are on sale. If someone bought it, what is crucial to them, what? Why should Negg should honor orders that he confirmed when the cards were in the warehouse, saving the next parcel for these buyers, since he can cancel the orders and download for them? (I asked; Newgg did not answer the request for comment).
We also deserve better than misleading MSRP, which barely represent the reality of buying up-to-date equipment and misleading marketing, which excessively process, which up-to-date equipment is capable of.
The reason why you should be incensed with the proof that you can do it better. Valve turned out to be the same with its steam deck reservation system, which enabled everyone who wanted one of the portable, even if it took some time.
During the summit of Kryptomania, the beloved GPU EVGA created a queue system to allow real people to book a graphics card, without any of them “I hope that the site will not fail under the weight of 1000 Botters striking in the first 30 seconds”. After the tariffs led to the escalate in prices, it even honored the original prices for people who have already signed up for the purchase of the card by the queue.
EVGA no longer sells graphics cards and I feel a sting of this loss more than ever. But his absence means that every hardware company can accelerate and offer an alternative to the misfortune, which we expect after trying to build a computer in the last half decades.
However, if someone intends to do it, I hope it will hurry – I really want to buy RX 9070 XT before the AI data center ends cooking the planet.
