askchapo

22764 readers

420 users here now

Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.

Rules:

Posts must ask a question.
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
Try [email protected] if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Say I want a new RTX card, but I'd never in a million years be willing to pay the small fortune Nvidia is demanding due to the crypto/AI bubbles. What's the least risky way to scam one from Amazon? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Generally speaking, I get the feeling I should stick to something that isn't worth enough for felony theft charges to apply, so no RTX 4090 or 4080. The 4070 Ti isn't at all a bad deal for $0.00, so I suppose that's the one.

I've heard conflicting reports on how likely Amazon is to refund you if you simply claim the box showed up with a brick in it. I've also seen conflicting reports on whether or not they'll actually check if a return has the same serial number on it. What say you, Hexbear?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nah. The only cards affected by this are high end workstation cards and the 4090. There is some scalping of very specifically only 4090s already in-country which are being purchased and repurposed into RTX 6000 Ada server cards for use in AI server farms.

The reason that 4090s are so expensive is because a huge amount of stock was redirected to China before the ban went into effect in mid-November. Anyone in the west trying to scalp, especially on 4080 or anything lower is going to be in for a very funny 2020 toilet paper scalper hypersus time.

Nvidia sent about a 6-month supply of the AD102 chips to continue making 6000 Ada and 4090 cards until the 4090D variant chips are ready, but AIB manufacturers are taking advantage of the situation and massively increasing prices of units while also focusing all manufacturing into workstation cards. They're also repurposing gaming GPUs into more expensive workstation cards, to ensure that there will be a huge amount of the 6000 Ada cards for likely years to come, and gamers are just gonna have to stick with the 4090 they have or get a 4090D which will be slightly less powerful.