Re: Maybe they're right... maybe GPU prices _are_ a bit high

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.)