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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Dual Fan 24GB GDDR6X GPU Card (Refurb)

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$700

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Select Micro Center Stores have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Dual Fan 24GB GDDR6X PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card (Refurbished, 9001G1362510RF2) on sale for $699.99. Select free store pickup where available.
  • Note: Availability for pickup will vary by location and is very limited.
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Features:
  • 24GB GDDR6X 384-bit Memory
  • 7680 x 4320 Maximum Resolution
  • PCIe 4.0
  • Full Height, Triple Slot
  • DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.1

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Select Micro Center Stores have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Dual Fan 24GB GDDR6X PCIe 4.0 Graphics Card (Refurbished, 9001G1362510RF2) on sale for $699.99. Select free store pickup where available.
  • Note: Availability for pickup will vary by location and is very limited.
Thanks to Deal Hunter SehoneyDP for sharing this deal.

Features:
  • 24GB GDDR6X 384-bit Memory
  • 7680 x 4320 Maximum Resolution
  • PCIe 4.0
  • Full Height, Triple Slot
  • DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.1

Editor's Notes

Written by jimmytx | Staff
  • About this Store:
    • All products come with 60 days of Complimentary Tech Support
    • This product may be returned within 30 days of purchase (details).
  • Additional Information:

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If you have a 24GB card, just download koboldcpp which is a 250mb exec, and get a GGUF model off huggingface -- a 20B or 34B model is about 15GB, then run it. Total time, including installing card and drivers ~1hr.

Check out /r/localllama on reddit.
This card is great if you want to play with local language models. Tired of GPT refusing to answer your questions about how to dispose of that dead body in your freezer? Run your own local model that has been 'un-aligned' and it will let you know exactly which brand of acid to get at the hardware store to remove that pesky problem. All you need a boatload of VRAM to run it.
It's a great card. But for gamers, seems 4070 ti super with 3 years of warranty is a better choice.

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Quote from duijver :
Thank you. I will check out reddit and see if it makes sense to pick up this card. I do have a 3060 12GB coming this weekend and perhaps that could make due?

I am not sure if my Precision 7810 system (dual xeon v3 beasts) will handle the power requirements of the 3090 and the 4070 TI S might be worth looking at for as it is more in-line with the 2080S in there now.
Your incoming 3060 12GB is plenty enough to run tons of large language models locally, I wouldn't recommend this card to you if this is your main use case.
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duckeggs
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these fetched great scalping prices back in the days. good times
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Quote from YourPotatoness :
Where did you trade your GPU? I have a 2090 super here that I wanted to trade in.
https://www.microcenter.com/site/...nding.aspx
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lxe
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This is THE card for the price for local LLM. Wish I had a microcenter nearby.
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Quote from static.CH03 :
I believe you need a power adapter in order to move to the required 12 pin? Anyway its not included in the box on the refurbished model
It was in the box on my 3090ti.
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please note 4090 vs 3090 price differences is 1000 vs 2000 dollars and performance differences are 4090 being 75% faster or more efficient only so you are sacrificing 25% in higher costs if space is important that is. a riser card costs much less than a 25% in gpu price.

definitely buy this over 4090
3090 x 2 with a riser card for dual channeling like ram would be best if you want higher performance.

plus this is 700 dollars making the price even more compelling so the price/cost difference is now 3x the cost of buying 4090 and in ai chip form it would be a price to performance difference.

this is a far better deal than buying 1 4090 or ai chip ever will considering you need 5x 4090 or 10k to compete with ai chips of 30k. meaning you are overpaying ai chips by 3x for saving space nothing more when space is actually very very cheap. especially commercial real estate crash. no real reason to buy ai chips or 4090 right now until prices are far more compelling.

Currently there is a huge slump in demand for GPUS because cryprto mining crashed and they said CHIP SHORTAGE? yeah that scam including auto price pump and dump scam is done. all dealers and manufacturers will need to lower prices or go bankrupt otherwise the standard pay for all will need to go up 100%.

Thats what they get for stealing and scamming like FTX.

GG NVDA. spam chip production and sell it to suckers while you can.

I would suggest to raise as much money from stock as they can right now TBH if they were smart.
but we shall see.

residential real estate isn't crashing because the elites intentionally want people to be poor and rob from the plebs nothing more as there isn't really a shortage of homes there is a shortage of affordable homes instead a big difference over priced homes are a dime a dozen and will sit vacant for years to come. a horrible investment are luxury homes as poor people struggle to buy stuff from dollar general/tree etc even the cheapest of the cheap is not too expensive. cheapest of cheap is now luxury based on what elites want.
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see linus

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1...-is-faster

4x 3090 vs 2x 4090

far cheaper than buying ai chips or 4090 chips.
if you were a data center buying ai chips you are warned, you have no business running a datacenter and passing costs to consumers when you over priced yourselves by spending money you dont have. nub
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1. Good for 8k video/3d rendering/gaming
Everyone else can live with the lesser 40x0 cards.

2. AI training.
Intel's developing ways to unchain training from the gpu, so cpu might be all one needs in the future.
https://www.intel.com/content/www...-cpus.html

3. Lazy crypto mining.
Really should be using a custom chip, but if you've got free solar power and a pc idle....$.
Various mining calculators
E.g. https://www.nicehash.com/profitab...a-rtx-4090
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These are walking design defects. Backplane memory should have never been released. Nothing but hot memory/thermal throttling unless you have it to add backplane heatsinks.
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Quote from koge811 :
please note 4090 vs 3090 price differences is 1000 vs 2000 dollars and performance differences are 4090 being 75% faster or more efficient only so you are sacrificing 25% in higher costs if space is important that is. a riser card costs much less than a 25% in gpu price.

definitely buy this over 4090
3090 x 2 with a riser card for dual channeling like ram would be best if you want higher performance.

plus this is 700 dollars making the price even more compelling so the price/cost difference is now 3x the cost of buying 4090 and in ai chip form it would be a price to performance difference.

this is a far better deal than buying 1 4090 or ai chip ever will considering you need 5x 4090 or 10k to compete with ai chips of 30k. meaning you are overpaying ai chips by 3x for saving space nothing more when space is actually very very cheap. especially commercial real estate crash. no real reason to buy ai chips or 4090 right now until prices are far more compelling.

Currently there is a huge slump in demand for GPUS because cryprto mining crashed and they said CHIP SHORTAGE? yeah that scam including auto price pump and dump scam is done. all dealers and manufacturers will need to lower prices or go bankrupt otherwise the standard pay for all will need to go up 100%.

Thats what they get for stealing and scamming like FTX.

GG NVDA. spam chip production and sell it to suckers while you can.

I would suggest to raise as much money from stock as they can right now TBH if they were smart.
but we shall see.

residential real estate isn't crashing because the elites intentionally want people to be poor and rob from the plebs nothing more as there isn't really a shortage of homes there is a shortage of affordable homes instead a big difference over priced homes are a dime a dozen and will sit vacant for years to come. a horrible investment are luxury homes as poor people struggle to buy stuff from dollar general/tree etc even the cheapest of the cheap is not too expensive. cheapest of cheap is now luxury based on what elites want.
Adding:
Cyclical, Imo. See the past two halvings and the peak bump shortly after followed by the longer softening of prices.

Ride the waves of bitcoin pricing and you'll likely make more due to the extreme ups and downs vs the Dow.

Ie. For those clueless, wait for the crash, buy low, hold until the new high, sell (if desired) or hold long term.

....

Otherwise, day trade the micro waves in stocks, coins etc - but this usually needs $100k+ in free cash. Ie. Buy stock 1% down, sell 1% up = $1000 profit - tax and commissions for a few hours or less of fishing each day. Harder.

...

Real estate.
Until this week's decision to eliminate fixed 6% fees, why do you think so many flippers?
$100k home @ 6% not enough for them, so agents flipped big cities to absurd $1M+ @ 6% profits.
Add Airbnb and simply holding and doing nothing, suddenly market squeeze of available homes.

The smart avoid the rat race. Tons of wonderful cities across America with jobs and cheap homes.

But if staying in the big cities, medical or IT jobs for the $100k+/yr salaries you'll need to squeeze into a fixer upper.

So get this nvidia and start doing those ai certificates!

Levels.fyi to see how absurd the pay can be in IT. (E.g. It's not impossible to get the $200k+/yr junior salaries.)

So $700 4090 today for a $100k+/yr job in a year. Government is begging. Community college cyber security apprenticeships with free training and school. Amazon is begging. Free cloud training. Even military - bonuses and such for the field.
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Quote from babygdav :
Adding:
Cyclical, Imo. See the past two halvings and the peak bump shortly after followed by the longer softening of prices.

Ride the waves of bitcoin pricing and you'll likely make more due to the extreme ups and downs vs the Dow.

Ie. For those clueless, wait for the crash, buy low, hold until the new high, sell (if desired) or hold long term.

....

Otherwise, day trade the micro waves in stocks, coins etc - but this usually needs $100k+ in free cash. Ie. Buy stock 1% down, sell 1% up = $1000 profit - tax and commissions for a few hours or less of fishing each day. Harder.

...

Real estate.
Until this week's decision to eliminate fixed 6% fees, why do you think so many flippers?
$100k home @ 6% not enough for them, so agents flipped big cities to absurd $1M+ @ 6% profits.
Add Airbnb and simply holding and doing nothing, suddenly market squeeze of available homes.

The smart avoid the rat race. Tons of wonderful cities across America with jobs and cheap homes.

But if staying in the big cities, medical or IT jobs for the $100k+/yr salaries you'll need to squeeze into a fixer upper.

So get this nvidia and start doing those ai certificates!

Levels.fyi to see how absurd the pay can be in IT. (E.g. It's not impossible to get the $200k+/yr junior salaries.)

So $700 4090 today for a $100k+/yr job in a year. Government is begging. Community college cyber security apprenticeships with free training and school. Amazon is begging. Free cloud training. Even military - bonuses and such for the field.
The tech field is very saturated with everyone and their mom getting CS degrees and doing coding boot camps. Everyone had the same idea where they could make $100K+ easily.
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Microcenter is selling it for $700 but they likely acquired it for $500-$600 then paid someone to take it apart and refurbish it. If I owned a mint 3090, I could sell it for a way better price on ebay. Refurb is a market for lemons.
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Quote from YW55 :
The tech field is very saturated with everyone and their mom getting CS degrees and doing coding boot camps. Everyone had the same idea where they could make $100K+ easily.
This. interviewbit recently posted an article where now you have to be 80th percentile to get FAANG whereas before it was 60th. And unless you got multiple offers, you'll probably get lowballed. If you want to make money these days go learn a trade skill. $100+ an hour for HVAC, electrical, plumbing work. While everyone busy spending 4 years getting into debt, you're busy making money.
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Quote from SehoneyDP :
I was definitely thinking the same thing for just $100 more the longevity should be worth it right? I'm not expert, but the big difference seems to be the vram? 24GB vs 16GB is there a big difference in consideration of that? Does it help things in particular?
Just installed DooM: Eternal. On 11K x 2K resolution (nV Surround) and Ultra Nightmare on graphics settings, it says it uses 13 GBs+ of VRAM.

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Quote from postitnote :
Yes, it works really well. That's what I use now.

The entire space is constantly changing, so like exllamav2 got an update last week to improve caching in a way that makes for more efficient vram usage, a feature that hasn't been implemented in other inference engines yet.

These things work so well, and with all the chatter on legislation on the dangers of AI, makes me think that we are a few years away from these GPUs being locked down so they can only be used for gaming. They'll make it so that the only access to AI you will have is through large companies that restrict the kinds of things you can do with them. We already see how there are export restrictions on 4090s to China. That's why there was such a jump in prices of 3090s in the past year imo.
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