EVGA and Zotac join others in raising the price of their graphics cards

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Unfortunately, consoles are facing the same problem. They had the 25% tariff applied to them as well. To be clear: A tariff is a tax on the consumer. It doesn't add anything to profit to the company and it doesn't help the exporting nation at all.

So, right now, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have all essentially stopped importing their consoles into the US and are focusing on foreign markets.

The scalping prices of consoles, as should be expected, has been rising rapidly for the last 5 days. Just as they were finally going down.

That's why I was so shocked that a lot of the Americans who supported Trump also supported the tariffs. I mean, I know that most of the MAGA-weirdos are more or less brain-dead but these people who are supposed to be against higher taxes were welcoming an extra tax that they had to pay to their own government!

At the end of the day, a tariff is just your government throwing an extra tax on something you buy that they receive. These people didn't understand that these tariffs were not a fine against China for making and selling the product, but a fine against themselves for buying it. The exporting country is unaffected by it except that it may reduce demand for their product.

Good Grief! The only metric these people have as to whether something is good or bad is whether or not Trump did it.

 

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I am happy with what I have.

I havent touched a PC for gaming in a while, thanks to the highway robbery that was the 20 series and the current impossibility of getting anything from AMD to replace my gtx970.

Dont get me wrong, I wish I could upgrade, because I want to play with GamerOS, but its not really a big deal, since I dont have the time to game that much and the Series X is giving me what I need.

If what you have is what you need then you're already ahead of the game. That's how people used to function until corporations learnt to "manufacture need" with their marketing practices. This is what gave rise to consumerism.

Now we have drama queens like that guy who posted that his business would fail because he couldn't get an RTX 3090 on launch day. It's like, "How the hell did you manage to survive before the RTX 3090 existed in the first place?". The problem is that not everyone is smart enough to immediately identify this as absolute BS.

 

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Now we have drama queens like that guy who posted that his business would fail because he couldn't get an RTX 3090 on launch day.

Lord.....I simply can't.....

 

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Lord.....I simply can't.....

Neither can I good buddy, neither can I.

There's a guy on here who got a Gigabyte Aorus RTX 3090 and was having problems with it. He apparently paid the equivalent of $3,169CAD! I don't even pay that much for an entire system, let alone a video card. That's what I call an "OMFG Scenario".

 

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Neither can I good buddy, neither can I.

There's a guy on here who got a Gigabyte Aorus RTX 3090 and was having problems with it. He apparently paid the equivalent of $3,169CAD! I don't even pay that much for an entire system, let alone a video card. That's what I call an "OMFG Scenario".

The worse part?

Like many cupertino rabid fanbois, many buy these things simply to post on social media to get likes.

Example, /r/Mac has almost zero post that are informative. All of them are photos of "my new Mac".

/PCMR and /nvidia are pretty much the same thing.

Really sad and empty people.

I have the money to pay for those things, but I refuse to do so on principle.

 

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The worse part?

Like many cupertino rabid fanbois, many buy these things simply to post on social media to get likes.

Example, /r/Mac has almost zero post that are informative. All of them are photos of "my new Mac".

/PCMR and /nvidia are pretty much the same thing.

Really sad and empty people.

I have the money to pay for those things, but I refuse to do so on principle.

I equate buying Apple with buying Volkswagen. People who have no clue about what they're buying get these things in an attempt to be "trendy" instead of shrewd. Meanwhile, the prices paid to buy and maintain them are nowhere near what these things are really worth.

It makes me think of Ron White's immortal truth:

 

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So, do they sell AMD gpus there or you are one of those that have fallen for the marketing bs from nvidia?

Almost zero stock for higher end AMD models. I had considered 6800 or 6800xt but those have been even more difficult to get than nvidia equivalent models. The ones that are easy to get are the rx570s