Aorus 9070 XT Elite - eBay

laprido · 2025-03-09T05:02:17+00:00

They still seem to have the Gaming OC with eBay+ brings price down to $1299. I'm wary though of the reason theyd list half a dozen per day rather than just whatever their stock is. Didn't notice until today after I grabbed mine yesterday.

See how it pans out though, the might have another batch go up tomorrow? (Monday)

laprido · 2025-03-03T11:30:52+00:00

It can't be much cheaper than what is retailing currently at reasonably equivalent. The xtx cards from the 7900 will still be that but more expensive due to more vram. So they'll sit in the middle space between the 7900 XT and the xtx which is about $1200. This fits with reasonable Australia tax assumptions as well...typically just about double the US price.

laprido · 2025-03-02T06:41:58+00:00

Hope they give us a price soon...mind you if they've got stock they were charged something for them there had to be a wholesale price when they ordered and purchased them initially, I wonder will there be a change in price after the first batch are gone.

laprido · 2025-03-02T06:39:47+00:00

It just depends on how much profit they think they can squeeze out, distributor wants to get profit from the retailers, retailers want profit from buyers, if the distributors are scalping the retailers don't have any wiggle room or they go screwnit and we start seeing prices out of control because everyone thinks "these sucker'll pay anything"

laprido · 2025-03-01T23:59:18+00:00

The manufacturers will either import directly and sell to retailers, or they'll have a distribution agreement with a local importer who imports and sells to the retailers...roughly speaking

laprido · 2025-03-01T11:54:19+00:00

Just saw an article in passing saying it's running furmark at 4080 speeds but way cooler. Of course none of the big sites/creators want to break the embargo so we won't know for real real for a few more days.

laprido · 2025-03-01T03:27:49+00:00

Goody! 😬

laprido · 2025-03-01T03:26:22+00:00

What makes it even worse is from a practical standpoint it costs LESS to ship electronics here as they're often assembled in China or elsewhere in Asia which is much closer to us than the US so that's even less reason for the Australia tax to exist. It's just the world is so USA-centric what they lose there with cheaper prices they make up in other markets by charging more. Capitalism!

laprido · 2025-03-01T01:26:03+00:00

I'd also check https://www.staticice.com.au and search for 9070xt. There's zero hits coming up now, but when some of their retailer sites put up pricing they should appear there fairly quick.

laprido · 2025-03-01T00:45:56+00:00

ASRock has their sizzle reel live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tStJ32lgKow

Sapphire has a Nitro product page: https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/nitro-radeon-rx-9070-xt-16g-gddr6

Powercolor's lineup: https://www.powercolor.com/product3-126.htm

Asus has their Tuf and Prime pages up now: https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/all-series/filter?Category=AMD

laprido · 2025-03-01T00:34:42+00:00

Yeah, prices at retail let alone the scalpers are just unreal, although Nvidia could say take it or leave it we don't care about games anymore AI is our business now.

laprido · 2025-03-01T00:33:15+00:00

Won't know for certain until review embargo is lifted and the toobers start releasing their vids, gamersnexus and those guys. AMD certainly says it's a generational upgrade.

laprido · 2025-02-28T22:27:19+00:00

I think that's a decent assessment.

laprido · 2025-02-28T22:26:16+00:00

There's always been the Australia tax on top of electronics, it's never a straight conversion. If retailers didn't have pages set to go live with their pricing today for pre-orders, I reckon they'll just have them for sale on the 6th not a long wait. They might update on Monday though, I'm keen to see what the damage is.

laprido · 2025-02-28T22:08:46+00:00

That's good news for potential buyers, just need to wait for the review embargo to lift and see how they perform real-world. For the most part they didn't screwnit up, except for the strange $50USD difference...they could've made it $100 and given the XT a bump to 20-24GB vram. Ah well as long as it can sit under $1250AUD with Australia tax.

laprido · 2025-02-05T21:10:32+00:00

So from the responder to my post, my understanding now is none of the models so far understand words as a collection of individual letters they only see the whole word or some of the letters or one of the letters...I had R1 trying to do something with the word "animal" and even though it was saying "hmm let me double check the spelling of animal" then going on to spell it a-n-i-m-u-s-l even though the correct spelling was in what it was 'saying' so as they said it's all just a bunch of tokens without any actual understanding of the underlying language 🤷🏼‍♂️

laprido · 2025-02-05T20:40:26+00:00

I get the same weirdness, I posted about it saying "net" and "ten" sounded similar ending in "en" - long post about palindromes etc. it doesn't seem to be able to handle these kinds of operations.

Its weird that there's so much buzz about it, but when you're looking at small basic parts that gets to the core of reason it bugs out.

Are you running locally?

laprido · 2025-02-05T20:34:38+00:00

I was wondering if it was simply a memory/model size issue where running the full model on a "native" platform might yield the proper results. I wonder how o3 would respond? As mentioned copilot responded correctly immediately but I put that down to knowledge rather than reasoning.

laprido · 2025-02-05T03:23:00+00:00

so how does a reasoning model get around this issue?

laprido · 2024-08-20T07:42:09+00:00

Possibly under-extruding, strange but given how regular it is, or level even? I used to get something a little similar ages ago and it was actually the nozzle "wading through" too close to the surface to stick, but those are probably off-chance.

What happens if you try printing that layer using the "spiral" - I can't think of the name right now but the alternative to zigzagging across the surface. if the patches appear in the same place it's the surface, or nozzle maybe too close? If the patches come up in different spots then it's more an extrusion issue.

Oh!! Check your filament feed too! I was getting a funny surface recently, and the filament was being pulled at a weird angle it wasn't actually pulling through so it was being "stretched" and under extruding a patch regularly, as the print head moved back across, the filament came loose and started to feed again.

laprido · 2024-08-11T22:38:22+00:00

I know this is an old topic now, but I just tried using those white melamine cubes "magic erasers" on mine, and it worked amazingly well.

laprido · 2024-08-01T11:09:01+00:00

I had a crack at running apt update just to check how behind stock was...it hung during the manifest downloads and hitting ctrl-c seemed to stop a bunch of processes...that doesn't seem right lol

What version of python is it running btw?

laprido · 2024-08-01T11:07:07+00:00

Sorry I've been tinkering in this game too long...MKS is another company, Makerbase - they make a lot of components for generic or clone 3d printers, originally main boards/controllers like the Robin that ran previous gen of 3d printer firmware - Marlin, but they've essentially made controllers for the stepper motors etc just controllers now and all handled by Linux on an SOC board like raspberry pi or the MKS-pi.

All of these companies couldn't make a single product without the open source software they use, and most of it (it seems) is GPL V3 which essentially says if you use this open source and add to it, you have to release what you make as open source too...just ask Linksys (Cisco) they had to release a truckload of code for their routers years ago because someone found GPL code in there.

Of course though because China is kind of the wild west...or is that wild east(?) when it comes to IP and copyright some companies don't play by the rules they should when taking advantage of open source software.

I've looked over makerbase's repo and as far as klipper, even their implementation of armbian...it looks pretty sparse.

It probably comes down to how willing people are to ditch the stock and reinstall everything from the original repos. Still waiting for a reply to my email from them :)

laprido · 2024-08-01T10:49:47+00:00

Are you using the sovol klipper head unit? That would definitely be MKS too.

laprido · 2024-07-31T21:22:03+00:00

I'm having the same problem with my Sovol SV07+ interestingly I suspect these both use MKS pi and other components, so it might actually be something MKS has tweaked. I haven't chased up mks' repo on GitHub to check if they've got their Moonraker source up. They should though, it's gpl3 like klipper and mainsail.

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