According to Redditor JamesFerg650, a trip to the Santa Clara, Calif. Micro Center for a Zotac RTX 5090 took a turn when he arrived home and opened the (apparently factory sealed) box, only to ...

Micro Center confirms it has over 30 cases of PC gamers receiving backpacks inside of their expensive new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards, no GPU.

Micro Center found these boxes at the Santa Clara store, indicating this could be an isolated incident, but it's too early to confirm. If you're purchasing a GeForce RTX 5090 in-store, it's wise ...

The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 both launch later this week on Thursday, January 30. As the early images of campers outside of Micro Center tip-off, cards will likely sell out immediately after release ...

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 launch has been branded a paper one, after stock issues saw some stores without cards. ... The Tustin, California Micro Center store seems to have received the most stock, ...

Campers arrive at Micro Center for Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs days before launch There will likely be some scalpers in the crowd By Rob Thubron January 28, 2025, 6:14 15 comments.

The retailer suspects that 30+ Zotac units were compromised at a factory in China before the boxes were sealed. It's since provided one affected buyer with the actual GPU.

There appears to be no limit to what consumers will accept, as illustrated by the $3,719 Asus RTX 5090 cards that came into stock at Micro Center but were sold out just hours later.

@houstonchronicle. A line of tents and folding chairs sat outside the Houston Micro Center Wednesday morning, as roughly two dozen customers eagerly awaited the release of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090.

Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center; ... —I hope those staking out the Micro Center are layering up.

According to Redditor JamesFerg650, a trip to the Santa Clara, Calif. Micro Center for a Zotac RTX 5090 took a turn when he arrived home and opened the (apparently factory sealed) box, only to ...