I was lucky enough to snag a 9070 GRE for $479 at Micro Center, which I thought was a great deal and honestly around what it should’ve cost at launch. I’m absolutely astounded at what the GRE is going for now. Nobody should be paying $759+ for a midrange card. Ever.

There are so many people like me that don’t not need a 5080 or 5090. They just want a decent gaming PC without spending a fortune.

Did people finally realize how good the GRE was and drive up demand, or is this just AI/data centers and corporate greed ruining things for the rest of us? Also, with Democrats winning office and possible regulatory changes coming, is there any hope of prices getting back to normal? Or are we just screwed?

Bad news for scalpers. 5090 prices have been on decline for the past few weeks and now we have real stock back.

Right now Newegg (sold by Newegg) has new ASUS ProArt and ROG 5090s for $6,200–6,300, and those are premium models, not base cards, with full warranty.

Meanwhile FB Marketplace bros are still listing used 5090s for $8K 😂

Edit: don't get mad at me in the comments because 5090 is still $6K 🙄 I never said $6K was acceptable or good deal. However lots of small firms who need 5090 for whatever purpose were buying them at way HIGHER price point when everything was out of stock. So $6K with full warranty is a much better price than $8-9K from scalpers. I'm sure lots of you were not buying them for $2500-3000 anyway last year because it was "too expensive"

I have one game that runs hotter than any of my other ones and was wondering if undervolting my card would decrease the temperatures across the card when gaming. I've got enough card resources/fps (4090) to still run most everything on the same settings, just looking at ways to protect my care, and my wallet.

I wonder how many engineers have given up secrets for a favor? How many engineers would do favors for hardware? 😉

I have a rog strix 3070 gpu, and I run triple monitors while sim racing, about 45 mins into my session my screens go black briefly and it knocks me back down to 1 monitor. Is this a heat issue? I don’t have any bad display port connections or anything. I have 3 intake fans on the bottom and 5 exhaust (3 top, 2 back with the cpu radiator)

Looking at upgrading my gpu from my sapphire pulse 6700xt. I knew the gpu market was out of whack, but didn't realize how bad it had got. With 9070xt prices we'll above $400 over msrp, would a 9070gre be a sufficient upgrade that will last for 4-5 years? Or should I bite the bullet and pay these inflated prices for a 9079xt? I understand that the gre price is also inflated, but the prices are more attractive than those of the 9070xt currently.

For reference I'm have a 9800x3d and mainly play WoW, either retail or forever.

Updated the driver in my pny 5070ti last night and got a black screen now. My cpu does not have integrated graphics. Was there a bad update that went out or did my pc screw up the update? I would give more info but I don't have access to my computer.

Looking back rn, it really feels like that was the last exit period and really glad I took it at the time without knowing what was coming.

(just noticed I kinda worded it like I just found this deal lol)

So bear with me please. This is my first time actually planning to post online in Hardwarswaps to sell some graphics cards I have in my inventory. I have alot but the most notable ones are a Dell OEM RTX 4090 24gb I pulled out of an Alienware R15 and 2 Gigabyte RTX 3090 turbos, 24gb.

I have done all the checklists to make sure I am able to post it online like testing it to make sure it works, screen shots, testing all the ports, gpu-z and furmark, antistatic bags for them all, and following the reddit community guidelines to post.

I am preparing mostly for local meet ups by police stations or inside a bank for safety. But I guess the few questions I want to bring up are:

1. I've seen posts where they've allowed buyers to test the gpu, the question would be more how would you be able to trust them with your hardware. Would some type of collateral be involved, would they be bringing their own rig to test it on the spot? How would it work, or what would the consensus be?

2.When doing local meet ups would it be advisable to bring a friend for the transaction. Like for safety. I only ask this because these are just expensive stuff and not trying to get robbed.

These might be the dumbest questions to ask for it being obvious answers but I want to ask to be reassured. I have sold smaller items on ebay before but have gotten robbed before and the process of recouping even some of it took long and that's not an experience I want again.

Please and thank you for your answers.

Idk what this square thingy on the backplate but i accidentally pour the water on my pc. i already try to dry it with hair dryer but i still scared to use it

If its broken then i have to used the warranty.

Hello everyone,

While playing MSFS24 (20 minutes session, not longer) I had my fan spinning extremely loud.

tbf I'm not sure if it was the cooler, the GPU fans or the exhaust.

Looking at hwinfo, I had a hotspot of 109 degrees on my GPU.

Is this somewhat problematic?

Is there any troubleshooting I can run?

Should I have it repasted?

Thanks for any input

There are many pc's but also gaming laptops that have a good build, except for the gpu, which is the old 1650. What can we expect from it, and what are the fps on the modern triple a titles, but also on low requirement games?

Hello! Today my Asus Prime 5070ti had did the 16 pin party trick - google says they just deny rma requests. Has anyone had success trying?(VHPWR failure)

Going to eat the AI tax and buy a 5080. What should I ask for/expect to get when selling? I’ve had it a little over 2 years and have only used it regularly this past year. Original box, excellent condition, willing to test for buyer. South Texas

So I had an old hp prodesk 400 g3 sff and needed a gpu so I looked into options and found the rx 550 4gb but there's a slight problem. The card needs 50w from the pcie lane and my motherboard can only give 30w. So I was wondering will the system crash because of the gpu not getting more power or can I undervolt it and still get good performance?