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Goodbye RTX5090

14 October 2026

According to reports, NVIDIA is dropping the RTX5090 in order to focus more on its AI GPUs.

I bet there are a lot of folk who wish they'd stocked up on the RTX5090 when they were (comparatively) cheap. If you had a stash of these things then you'd already be looking at a capital gain of 200% to 300% and within a few more months that may double again due to the halted supply.

There are some units still available here in NZ but prices start at NZ$15,000 and go up. Never the less, it might still be wortwhile to buy one and sit on it for a few months, there could be profits coming your way.

Apparently, NVIDIA's flagship gaming GPU will be a 24GB RTX5080 which will also be unreasonably expensive.

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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