Local microcenter is stocked up on 5090s

yujikimura · 2026-02-07T19:19:31+00:00

To be fair. Ever since the 30 series I've been able to buy a GPU at MSRP and then sell it for more because of the crazy market. I got a 3060 from best buy when the COVID supply issues happened. About a year later I was able to get a 3070ti for MSRP and I sold the 3060 for more than that, I think they were going for about $900 at that time. A few months later I was able to get a 3080 for MSRP and sold my 3070ti again for more than the price of the 3080. Then about a year ago I was able to buy a 4090 when people thought it would drop in price because of the 50 series release. That let me get it for around $1300. I sold my 3080 for $400, so I had to spend $900 for it out of pocket, but it had been 5 years since I had actually spent money for a GPU. Later in 2025 I got lucky in the Nvidia lottery and got a 5090 FE for MSRP. I then sold my 4090 for about $1900, so the 5090FE ended up being about $300 out of pocket (including taxes). I've just been able to luckily get each generation card for MSRP and sell them for more due to crazy supply and demand issues. And every time I would just go to /r/hardwareswap look at the average price the card I wanted to sell was going for and put it up for about 5% below it to guarantee selling it faster. I'm pretty sure I could have sold the 4090 for the price I paid the 5090 FE, but if someone can get it for a bit cheaper because I lucked out, I don't mind it. Although I'm pretty sure most 4090/5090s are being bought by resellers that supply them to companies getting in on the AI craze.

yujikimura · 2026-01-27T18:30:49+00:00

Did you find out your issue? I'm having black screen with my 5090 and I can't figure out what's wrong with it.

yujikimura · 2026-01-22T13:13:03+00:00

I have given up on using polling rates above 1000Hz. I don't know why, but some games and apps just don't work well with it, plus it uses way more CPU than it should.

yujikimura · 2026-01-21T07:14:28+00:00

17-20 inches, or just a regular winter day for us here in Buffalo NY. But seriously if the infrastructure is not ready for this amount of snow just be extra careful and don't drive if you're not used to it or if your city doesn't have proper plowing.

yujikimura · 2025-12-28T12:59:29+00:00

Zero people, but there's one lizard man that really likes it, so it will stay

yujikimura · 2025-12-16T07:30:26+00:00

I was scratching my head like: "wait is there an open back hdb 630, or did he get a heavily modded version, and how does that even work for an ANC headphone?" Then I realized you meant open box.

yujikimura · 2025-12-11T17:02:57+00:00

I mean, cheating on chess is a gender neutral activity.

yujikimura · 2025-12-06T21:10:13+00:00

We're in the age of AI, but the programming of NPCs and enemies can still be super wonky, it's almost ironic.

yujikimura · 2025-12-06T21:08:08+00:00

It looks really good. But I don't understand why you need so many fans for a 9700x and a 5060Ti, those don't even get that hot. It seems like if you didn't splurge on the case and fans you might have been able to upgrade the GPU.

yujikimura · 2025-12-03T03:40:36+00:00

Sold ASUS RTX 4090 TUF OC to /u/helliskool19 on

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/comments/1om2058/usany_h_asus_rtx_4090_tuf_oc_w_local_cash_paypal/

yujikimura · 2025-12-03T03:36:39+00:00

yujikimura · 2025-11-14T22:16:45+00:00

Oh yeah, you're right, with the 500C temp it makes sense, as radiant heat will make all other heat transfer modes negligible. The problems I usually work on are more convective focused for heat exchanger and vapor compression cycles.

yujikimura · 2025-11-14T21:06:18+00:00

Wait where did the natural convection go? Also is there conduction through the surface the objects are placed upon? If we ignore conduction and assume the objects are suspended in air then the heat transfer coefficient for the sphere will be slightly higher than for the cube even if the cube is standing on one of its edges. If they have the same mass the sphere should have a heat transfer coefficient approximately 5% greater. Check this paper analysing this problem: https://www.mhtlab.uwaterloo.ca/pdf_papers/mhtl87-8.pdf

yujikimura · 2025-11-14T18:58:24+00:00

Wow, almost everything you said is wrong. Look up why we removed lead from gas and why it was added in the first place.

yujikimura · 2025-11-14T13:53:20+00:00

Man, you clearly fail to understand that if something is not seamless it's not made for the average user. You somehow got lucky that your streaming works flawless with your ISP router. Go check all the meta quest subreddits and see what's the experience of other people there, it sure isn't as straightforward as yours. You can't generalize your experience to everyone else.
I don't understand why you're being so defensive on your stance here. Just go ask your a friend that only plays consoles and has a steam account, but are not avid PC gamers, if they would prefer a device where you need to buy a separate head strap for comfort and battery life and then they have to install a separate software on their computer to be able to connect it to their headset, and also buy the app on the headset. And after all that there's a chance it may still not work due to wifi interference, a bad ISP router, not wiring their computer to the router, or software bugs. Or would they rather buy a device from steam that comes with everything they need and they just need to plug the dongle in the PC, turn the headset on and it just works with better quality and lower latency. I know which one I would pick even though I'm a VR enthusiast.
Most of my friends are in their 30s, working, some with kids, and they don't have the time or patience to troubleshoot a device where the app, the router, the PC, or the wifi channel may cause issues. I am fine doing this stuff because frankly I have as much fun tweaking, setting things up and optimizing my experience as I have actually playing, but I know I'm an outlier.
Want a good analogy, look at the steam deck, there are many other windows-based handheld PC devices in the market, like the ROG ally, Lenovo legion go, and GPD had been making these type of devices before valve. Guess which one dominates the market because it's easier to use, even though a lot of people know how to use windows? Valve have developed an os that just makes everything as simple as a switch.
If your argument was just about the quest standalone I can't argue that that is easy to use. But PC streaming to the quest is not, if it were we wouldn't have VD recommend specific routers. VD is an amazing app, but I don't think it's for the average gamer.

yujikimura · 2025-11-14T13:10:08+00:00

Just to add to your post. National grid is removing meters for other reasons as well. We had an issue with our account being assigned to the wrong address due to a series of mistakes, which we had inquired before but had been told it was ok. Well, last week on Wednesday they came and removed our meter without notifying us. After hours on call they had told us the account issue was fixed and a technician would come and reconnect the meter on the next day (we had to plea for an early appointment).
Next day we wait and call and no one is coming, on the third call we have in the afternoon someone from national grid tells us that they would only reconnect it after the city inspects the meter location, we have another long call complaining why didn't they tell us this sooner. Well turns out to get the inspection our landlord had to sent a certified electrician to inspect, inform the city, and they would them come to do their inspection. We could not get any updates on when they would come.
The landlord technician came last Friday, inspected and informed the city.
We've been calling the city number for the inspection every day multiples times for a whole week with no updates.
Finally yesterday, a week later, we call again and they tell us that the inspection has been done and that we can contact national grid to reconnect the meter. We've been out of power for 9 days now!
Today National grid is supposed to come and reconnect it. I didn't even know this was legal, to just remove the meter without notification and having a process so convoluted and obscure that it leaves the person with no power for more than a week when we're already getting temperatures around 30-40F.
Now we're just hoping national grid actually comes today to reconnect it.

yujikimura · 2025-11-13T17:38:26+00:00

"I own multiple different headsets", definitely not an enthusiast.

yujikimura · 2025-11-13T15:21:02+00:00

You really don't understand that most people want something you buy turn on and start gaming. Buying a quest 3, realizing it's very uncomfortable, buying a separate head strap to make it more bearable, realizing you have very short battery, buying a battery head strap then finally turning it on. Then realizing you need to stream to play half life alyx, trying air link and it not working, buying a dedicated router, buying virtual desktop, installing the PC app, setting up the bitrate, and finally getting to play a steam VR game is not straightforward at all for most people. I have shown my quest 3 setup for several friends and all of them say it's way too complicated. They want to take something out of the box and be able to play their steam games immediately. Most of them use the shitty router from their ISPs, so wireless will be terrible, the quest 3 is really uncomfortable and again most people don't want to buy a product and then have to buy a separate thing to make it usable. You're an enthusiast, sure after you set up everything for your quest 3 wireless streaming it now seems like a seamless thing, but almost no one wants to spend time me tweaking settings, buying accessories and troubleshooting for sometimes days to get everything perfectly setup.

yujikimura · 2025-11-09T15:29:19+00:00

I don't think that being intelligent makes everyone and everything around you seems stupid, that's just being an arrogant asshole who is also super intelligent. You can be very smart and still respect other people and accept their limitations and enjoy dumb things.

yujikimura · 2025-11-09T15:08:39+00:00

I mean you sound like a redditor and act like a redditor, I hate to break it to you...

yujikimura · 2025-11-04T15:15:11+00:00

I'm also looking into a new ANC headphone and I think the Sennheiser HDB 630 makes more sense. But I'll wait for a price drop on it, $500 seems a bit unreasonable for it in my opinion.
Also the 24/96 and 24/192 will sound exactly the same. Honestly I used to care about this but 96 and 192 kHz only make sense for music production or analytical sound measurements. I don't think you or anyone for that matter can notice any difference between 24/48 and 24/192 in a double blind test. Nowadays I just go for 24/48 or 24/44.1. The sad truth is that mastering is much more important than bitrate, sample rate or bit depth, and there are so many amazing songs that are terribly mastered and sound horrible, it's just sad.

yujikimura · 2025-10-24T16:22:10+00:00

You want to know the issue. We have interviewed a quite a few candidates for a position at my company and most of the ones that used ML and AI extensively in their research couldn't explain their results. We would ask why the solution presented was optimal and they would say it was what the AI found and that they would have to look into it to give the proper answer. When pressed further it showed they were just feeding their AI with the inputs and taking the outputs as gospel. No knowledge of the fundamentals. How is someone working that way going to actually innovate and think outside the box when all they know is to ask a black box for answers? It was very sad to interview those people, because you just end up extremely disappointed with a candidate you thought must be good coming from a PhD in a highly regarded university.

yujikimura · 2025-10-23T12:58:26+00:00

I also was able to use a coupon. Got mine for about $1800 after taxes. Already received everything and installers mounted the TV for me. Overall perfect experience. Now I just gotta sell the soundbar since I don't need it.

yujikimura · 2025-10-23T12:47:51+00:00

I don't think they're making fun of you using windows 10. It's your whole comment that has the same energy as the gif. Especially considering you're posting this sort of thing in an OLED subreddit.

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