NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

Rando info from Stockdrops Discord:

Confirmation from Asus representative that "prices for Motherboards are going up in price right now, and another GPU price increase down the line, also that Chinese new year has been bad for production and to not expect any major GPU drops over the entire of February going into march" its best to buy buy buy right now. as things are only going to get worse.

Mist said:

For what these tariffs are going to cost US consumers we probably could have just built Samsung and TSMC each a fab plant in the US.

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That’s the point

Mist said:

Except it's not. We're not actually going to use the money collected to build anything of the sort, so it's just a wasteful tax.

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Except it is. The point of taxes is that they’re used to (dis)incentivize market behavior. Economic policy is commonly used to push toward different outcomes. But, of course, it doesn’t exhibit linear behavior. Are you literally retarded?

Mist said:

But it's not going to disincentivize market behavior in this case. Most or all of the cost is just going to be passed on to the consumer, who are going to grumble and pay for it, because it's the same tax they were already paying scalpers anyway. It is not going to actually lead to building appropriate fabrication facilities in the US and changing the market.

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So? It’s still working as an incentive to build them in the US and a disincentive to build them in China. None of your post contradicts this.

LachiusTZ said:

Someone tell Biden cards being hard to get hurts the blacks or some shit

I was on my phone for the drop earlier, saw it maybe a minute after it was listed, and everything was already sold out

I mean what the fuck

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A minute? Fuck, you were WAY too late. Lol. Shit sells out in seconds, usually less.

Mist said:

Yeah, good call. With associate codes and the built in discount, I can get 88 dollars off. I still don't want it but I'm offering it up to anyone at work that wants one.

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*cough* So you're offering that 3070 at cost? I mean i can always use more cards!

Someone tell Biden cards being hard to get hurts the blacks or some shit

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We doing fine, i can find cards, sell cards, but i cant find a mfin ps5 digital for $550!

I am officially tired of refreshing the Best Buy page. Maybe they'll surprise us with some Wednesday drops.

On a funny note, after the card drop trainwreck on the Asus site over the weekend, they dont have any Nvidia 30x0 series cards listed anymore. Wonder if they realized how ill equipped they are for the voluntary DDOSing they do to themselves every time they try to sell something.

^ that's one of the things I was really hoping would come out of the Trump presidency (sorry sorry I know...). At least it's happening a little bit even if Biden decides to put things right back to where they were.