We will have to play the waiting game again. I did acpre order for a PNY 5090 but has not updated on Amazon yet.

It feels good skipping this generation. Hopefully Nvidia will sort their ship out for the 6090 launch!

Hopefully the 60 series will have 100k cards ready for launch and with 2nm 😀

I saw an Article a few days ago that leaked from a Zotak rep that they would not even have any cards to sell on launch day because Nvidia was so late to give out the blessings on the final release bios that they were going to be late into stock
MSI sent me an email the had BUY IT NOW but the link was just a loop and never went live , MSI store was crashing hard from 8:50- 9:30, They had said they would take pre-orders that would ship on the 6th,  Which is when B&H is opening up preorders at 9AM EST. 
There are so few Scalped cards , like a couple review samples and maybe a dozen confirmed order receipts, once again pointing at no stock at launch .
So maybe we see a small wave in a week or two but I would bet its going to be March before we start see new cards dribbling in.

Nereus
 
Maybe I'll snag a 4090 instead, they'll probably be selling relatively cheap soon.
 

Don't count on it the 4090 is faster than any 5080 so it will be priced even used above the most expensive 5080 and will be priced below the cheapest 5090. The best chance was after the Nvidia at CES when people started to panic sell their 4090's. Now with all the facts laid out, the horrible limited 50 series launch with crap availability yeah... The days of cheaper 4090's is over until the 60 series.

kraade
I saw an Article a few days ago that leaked from a Zotak rep that they would not even have any cards to sell on launch day because Nvidia was so late to give out the blessings on the final release bios that they were going to be late into stock
MSI sent me an email the had BUY IT NOW but the link was just a loop and never went live , MSI store was crashing hard from 8:50- 9:30, They had said they would take pre-orders that would ship on the 6th,  Which is when B&H is opening up preorders at 9AM EST. 
There are so few Scalped cards , like a couple review samples and maybe a dozen confirmed order receipts, once again pointing at no stock at launch .
So maybe we see a small wave in a week or two but I would bet its going to be March before we start see new cards dribbling in.

Talk to the guys over at HWBOT nvidia has been blocking XOC vbios's for the 5090 retail they already blocked Galax and Asus, plus their NDA in house XOC vbios's.

 
Some Micro Center stores didn't even get ANY 5090 cards for opening day... that is what they say a "paper launch."

donta1979

Nereus
Maybe I'll snag a 4090 instead, they'll probably be selling relatively cheap soon.

Don't count on it the 4090 is faster than any 5080 so it will be priced even used above the most expensive 5080 and will be priced below the cheapest 5090. The best chance was after the Nvidia at CES when people started to panic sell their 4090's. Now with all the facts laid out, the horrible limited 50 series launch with crap availability yeah... The days of cheaper 4090's is over until the 60 series.

Hmm good point, unfortunately for me.
 
Besides gaming, I'm also interested in rendering capabilities, and the 5090 looks like it will kick butt with all that VRAM.
 
I still have 2 brand new EVGA 3090Ti cards, a brand new EK full cover block for one of them, and found a NVLink SLI bridge on EBay a while back, so I could do a new SLI setup with the 3090Ti cards, and although the VRAM isn't pooled, I can still utilize 2 cards for rendering. Very few games these days utilize SLI though.
 
Also have a used EVGA 3090 that I had on water, but have put the air cooler back on that. I should probably try to sell them all while there's still demand, and just wait for a 5090 to become available, whenever that may be... not even sure which AIB I'd use, probably ASUS, but it depends which cards have waterblocks available.
 
Anyone have experience with Gigabyte Aorus? I see they have made a 5090 with a waterblock (Xtreme Waterforce) but I'm a bit wary of the brand, and I read somewhere they've used aluminum fins which was a stupid idea having mixed metals in a loop as everything else I have is brass. That alone would take it off my list.
 
 

castrator86
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 Some Micro Center stores didn't even get ANY 5090 cards for opening day... that is what they say a "paper launch."

Damn..  Micro Center only got a total 233 of the 5090 cards for the entire country???? I'm betting almost all of them went to staff. NVidia should be ashamed of themselves.
 

Nereus 
I still have 2 brand new EVGA 3090Ti cards

 
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