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What happened to the 5970. Only rich people ?

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tweakboy said:
Thanks for the friendly responses. Yes there is a shortage of them, I guess this will slowly change hope soo...thanks
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What shortage? I guess you're talking about now and not 3 months ago since you started this so-called thread yesterday.

There are 7 different 5970's in stock at Newegg, Fry's has a few brands in stock, MicroCenter lists a couple in stock (but MC never carries much in the way of top end video cards anyway), ZZF has 6 different cards in stock, and on and on.

No shortage found.
 
Meghan54 said:
What shortage? I guess you're talking about now and not 3 months ago since you started this so-called thread yesterday.

There are 7 different 5970's in stock at Newegg, Fry's has a few brands in stock, MicroCenter lists a couple in stock (but MC never carries much in the way of top end video cards anyway), ZZF has 6 different cards in stock, and on and on.

No shortage found.
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we do? i have never once seen a 5970 in stock at the store i work at, we have only ever had 5 enter the store total @ palo alto. if you're looking online for availability then the online store can pull from any of our warehouses around the country to ship them, and the check in store availability checker is about as close to useless as you can get without actually being completely shit. i will check what the stock looks like in the area tomorrow when i get in though, but its never been any good when i have checked
 
v8envy said:
PC gaming is a very cheap hobby.

My wife can blow $300 in a weekend by getting her toes & hair done, a walmart trip and taking the kids out to the movies.

From that perspective a $700 video card every six months or so is downright reasonable -- especially if the hardware is re-sold to partly finance the new hardware.
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Which is how I see it. I'm not rich by any means but I love new hardware. I do a couple of side jobs here and there. Save a few dollars. Sell old hardware and buy new hardware. I sell all my old hardware to finance new hardware. Rarely do I ever spend cash earned from working on my hobby. Thats for the wife to do. 🙂
 
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