Rumors of bad samsung yields, fake low stock to increase MSRP of cards, Nvidia providing 50-100 dollar rebate to AIB's for cards sold in September, super expensive cooling solutions for FE...I can't admit I was around for previous GPU releases but jeez.. Hopefully AMD has good stock because I know they are going to kill it on efficiency and price and I would rather loose 5-7 percent of fps attainable than give money to Jensen's annoying marketing over hype.
The lack of transparency here has been awful as a consumer. Not only did the first wave of cards sell out between refreshes, but Nvidia failed to inform us that they would continually restock the site throughout the day.<p>I managed to snag myself a FE card, but dozens of friends and coworkers were not so lucky. There are relatively simple solutions like a preorder queue or allowing backstock orders that are fulfilled sequentially, but it doesn’t seem like Nvidia is concerned at all with the customer experience; they know they aren’t losing customers as long as they continue to provide best in class performance.
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