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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Maybe they're right... maybe GPU prices _are_ a bit high
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 05:16:58 -0700
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On 5/13/2025 7:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2025 14:27:30 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/12/2025 10:00 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>
>>> So, anybody in the market for an Asus ROG Astral Dhahab Nvidia
>>> 5090GTX? 'Cause you can get one for the cheap, cheap price of $10,600
>>> if you're interested.*
>>>
>>> Admittedly, this is a bit of a cheat; this is a card released only in
>>> the United Arab Emirites and it supposedly has been gold-plated, so
>>> it's not really intended as a consumer-level card.
>>
>> I've done gold plating, I'll do it for half that and probably at higher
>> quality based on what I've seen of gold plating that I didn't do.
> 
>> Wait, I'll happily do it for even less, double the price of the base card!
> 
> Let's see: 6.5g gold is currently worth about 600 Euro (700 US
> dollars). The card itself... well, 'base' level 5090GTX cards are
> going right now for $3000 USD, and the specs of the Astral Dhahab
> don't seem anything special. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt
> and tack on an additional $500 for unspecified features.
> 
> So if you do it yourself you could get a similar package for less than
> $5000 USD. A real bargain! ;-)> (that website is odd; it goes on more about the cooling than about the
> features of the card itself. Which sort of gives you an idea as to the
> people who are buying these things; they don't care about performance,
> they just want bling.)

I'm not going to buy one for myself.  There's the whole 'the power 
cables are melting' thing.

-- 
-Justisaur

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