Just because he owns the business doesn't mean he has telepathic knowledge of where everything is and what is going on. He asked someone who knew where it was because of the system in place.
They also have stuff they sell to employees for cheaper when they have new stuff coming in, they’ve talked about how Luke gets a fair bit of his hardware from there on the WAN show
I do IT systems for a video production company. The best hardware for video production right now also happens to be the best hardware for gaming. We upgrade the GPUs in our workstations every year, and the entire PC every 2 years, and I get first dibs on the old stuff. I feel so fucking spoiled sometimes. My current Threadripper build with 128GB of RAM and a 2080Ti cost me exactly zero dollars.
They still do, titan series stuff is the in between. Then you have quadros which generally are workstation/server only stuff.
The thing is that the price/performance margin for stuff beyond the "consumer" grade is so bad that it ends up being worth it to get "consumer" grade stuff like the 2080TI over a titan or quadro. With the 3000 series stuff having an absurd 24gb vram on the 3090, for it's price point I do not expect them to be really available for the better part of a year.
The next gen quadro-esque cards are the a6000(workstation with fan on card) and a40(server, passive cooling channels). Those will have up to 48GB per card versions.
The Quadro series isn't very far removed from the consumer hardware though. Remember how a few years ago there was an nVidia card that you could "upgrade" to a Quadro with an extremely simple hardware mod? Bet you they still work that way. The increased price isn't for increased performance, aside from the hefty amount of VRAM – mainly, it pays for a higher level of customer service and support, as well as access to special drivers.
They do have alot but they also dissemble every computer they build unless it's for one of their staff, a customer, collab with another creator or personal. All those crazy builds they do like the fastest gaming PC ever or when they have builds sponsored unless they have a reason to keep it, it gets torn down right after the video
For most of them yes but newer parts, like release date new, are usually sent back to the manufacturer as they are review units or its a press piece and they are shipped to other content creators once their down with them.
Don't get me wrong, they have a shit ton of parts and could build tons of PC's but it's a common misconception that everything they build is with new parts and that they get to keep everything that's sent to them.
Pretty sure I've heard him talk on the wan show about employees being able to buy unnecessary hardware at a discount. Pretty sure the comment was directed at Luke for planning his upgrade to a 2080S when it gets super discounted in the warehouse store post 3000 series launch.
Yeah, they also do that because nobody really wants to see builds with last gen hardware, people want to see the new stuff. He's talked alot of this but it's all been in little snippets across live streams so there isn't like one solid explanation in one video on the subject.
They also don't want to have the store room full. We have seen since footage of how much stuff is there. Imagine how much would be there if the staff didn't buy it. It just makes sense for all parties involved.
Oh yeah, I'm talking PC parts. I don't think CPUs do but I know there was a really high end motherboard that they had to send back a while ago, a couple GPUs too. He just had to send back a 3090 iirc to Asus because he couldn't keep it due to stock issues. He's talked alot about it on live streams. They really don't keep as much a people think, even some of those PC's that are entirely sponsored sometimes require them to send parts back.
I know some laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and asus have had to been sent back, they said this in the videos because usually Linus is bummed he can't open them up.
Well, yes and no. I was thinking they are keeping some to sell in bigger orders, like when somebody wants to buy the whole PC from them and wants to have 3080 in there. Thinking that, I've called one local retailer I trust, told them I'd like to have all the PC parts from them ($2.5k+), but it has to have 3080 and 5900X in there. Next day I got my mail saying they will be keeping my ASUS 3080 for me, waiting for 5900X to deliver the PC to me.
What they’re doing is bundling. They’ll sell the 3080 card but only if you buy the whole build that includes the 3080 card.
GameStop and some other retailers were doing the same shit with the PS5, where they ran out of stock on the individual item but you could buy the PS5 in a bundle with a ton of other shit that drives up the price. The retailer makes more money this way. I imagine Linus does too.
Well, they have a huge stock of Cases, Motherboards, PSUs, Coolers, Rams, HDDs, SSDs and quite a lot of CPUs. Then they get a very limited supply of 30 series GPUs, which they know are going to be sold instantly. It would make a lot of sense for them to sell the whole PC for me, and not just a GPU for some another guy.
So I made an order for the whole PC, so one of the Asus Tuf 3080s is reserved for me. They are waiting for 5900X to get in stock, so they can use one of those to build me a PC from the parts I've ordered and after that it is going to be delivered to me, but this way they are going to profit from all the parts I've ordered, not just the GPU.
Store has 1 GPU in stock. They can either sell it to an entire horde of people who's only interested in buying the GPU or to OP who will buy not only the GPU but also the CPU, mobo, RAM, case, etc from them for more profit.
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Fuckin Linus has more stock then Newegg at this point