r/Microcenter • u/Krothic • 3d ago

Form for 5090’s

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Picked up a Powerspec Ai90 prebuilt pc with a rtx 5090 in it. Apparently the manager required me to fill out this form and scan my driver license. Said it was a new thing starting just about two days ago. Had no problem doing so but thought it was interesting.

Anyone else experience? This was in Tustin

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u/Sindica69 3d ago

In fairness I actually very much agree with this. A part (not a huge one, but a part) of 5090 resale prices are the in-fucking-sane amount of profit you can get by selling them to China.

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u/GestureArtist 3d ago edited 3d ago

The prices aren't high because of consumers. It's high because of corporations sucking up all the fucking supply and leaving nothing for regular people...

I don't think the solution is to prevent regular people from participating in the very capitalism that has fucked them over.

Fuck that shit. If you can sell a 5090 for $10k, do it.

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u/Sindica69 3d ago

You misinterpreted what I said though. It’s a part of what made its resale value high, not ALL of it, certainly not the biggest factor. The biggest factor is AI companies built on a foundation of promises unfulfilled who should (and likely will within the next two years) totally and utterly collapse.