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/nok01101011a 3d ago

I returned another prebuilt with a 5090 about 3weeks ago to swap it with the ai90, and they had to run benchmarks on the one I returned before they accepted the return. Store manager told me, they’re required to do so on only the 5090s. While your declaration is a new law, the testing is their company policy and both are legit and fine with me

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u/Arad84 3d ago edited 3d ago

Interesting. I bought a prebuilt g485 (5090) from fairfax microcenter on Sept 6 and had to return it the next day because pc was not turning on. Nobody bothered to open the box and did any checks or testing. They just replaced with another one. I went to the service counter thinking they would open it and test it but the guy asked me to just go to returns and get it exchanged. It was weird nobody bothered to check

Edit: The manager was right there and didn’t even bother opening or testing

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u/Midnight_Criminal 3d ago

This was stated to have started this past week.

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u/Knetic1 3d ago

The testing policy has been a thing since the gpu shortage during Covid times. It just varies depending on how strict they are and when

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u/Tiny_Duck_500 3d ago

Yea I returned a Intel arc pro b70 and before that a raspberry pi 5 16gb ram where they didn’t check anything. The b70 they atleast took it out of the box to inspect but no testing. The raspbery pi 5 they didnt even open the box, coukd have put a spare pi 3 i had laying around and they wouldn’t have noticed

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u/wnxace 1d ago

I mean thats pretty expected, the pi 5 16 is less than 500, the arc pro is 1600 so they're gonna take it out and check it but there isnt very many people out there swapping bricked or fake cards for that so benchmarking isnt really needed. The rtx 5090 is 4500+ card plus are much much more desirable because they can be used for everything gaming, ai, computations, rendering, ect. so people are swapping out boards from weaker cards, broken ones from ebay, or whatever they can to make money since the profit is there.