When do the next generation GPUs drop?

[fdsaion]

Exactly as I said

@fdsaion

If you RNG well, you can scam Newegg

@stusser

• Some dude bought the motherboard new, installed his CPU wrong, got thermal paste on the pins, and bent some pins to boot. He then returned it to Newegg.
• Newegg took the RMA and failed to validate it worked. This is where they failed. They just put it in the refurb bin.

@fdsaion

if not, Newegg scams you

@stusser

Of course Newegg won’t accept his RMA because they “know it worked”. This is just some user who messed up the hardware trying to get his money back, right?

[stusser]

Pretty much.

[jpinard]

@stusser

Also Newegg needs to fix their RMA/refurb department because they missed a completely dead motherboard.

To be honest, I bet they check less than 10% of returned items.

[rei]

Newegg used to be the good guy who fought the patent trolls

[lordkosc]

Newegg is shit now, and their shuffle raffle stuff sucks. :)

[stusser]

Beyond their not properly testing refurbs, the shuffles are really evil, forcing people to buy shit they don’t want just to get a GPU.

[abrandt]

Can anyone recommend a good online alternative to Newegg at this point?

[rei]

Memory Express if you’re in Canada

[lordkosc]

I ordered all my parts last summer from Amazon, cept the gpu.

[Dejin]

You could try B&H Photo. I don’t know if they have quite the computer selection of something like NewEgg, but they do appear to have a good range of computer parts including Graphics Cards, Motherboards, and CPUs.

[abrandt]

Thanks. I’m sure nobody will have quite the selection of the behemoths of Newegg and Amazon but it’s nice to have a reputable alternative. I know Monoprice has some computer parts as well. I used to use mwave forever ago but they ceased to be a thing at some point.

[Dan_Theman]

Microcenter ships a lot of their products, as well; just nothing that’s hard to come by, as those are in-store only.

[morlac]

Microcenter ships if one is not near you as well. My favorite by far but I’m lucky to have 1 very close and another a half hour away.

Edit:. Haha about 1 minute late!

[JonRowe]

I have used B&H multiple times before. Always been good.

[BrianRubin]

B&H is wonderful, been using them for years without a problem.

[abrandt]

Thanks all. I’ll give B&H a try whenever the CPU/GPU situation normalizes again. Hopefully they are still around in 2025.

[BrianRubin]

They’ve been around for decades. You’ll be fine.

[Dejin]

They’ve been around since the early 70s, I don’t think they’ll be going away soon. I assume their Internet business has skyrocketed since Covid. I found out about them when quarantine started and I needed to order equipment for teaching from home. One of my colleagues who used to teach at NYU recommended them to all of us.

I do feel a bit bad having them ship equipment from all the way across the country when there’s probably the same thing in an Amazon warehouse much closer, but for some purchases, I just don’t trust Amazon not to have counterfeits in their supply chain.

[Enidigm]

I’ve wanted to visit B&H; i’ve heard it’s a very Willy Wanka magical shopping machine, sort of a modern Service Merchandise, where you order something than go check out, and then the thing you ordered magically pops up from a mini elevator on the counter in front of you. I assume the owners made it this way to deal with “shrinkage”.

[mono]

There are (or used to be) mini conveyer belts on the ceiling shuttling product to various register counters.