Online retailers in the US seemed to sell out near instantly (I did see a 9070 or two still available) and reportedly places like Microcenter had lines around the stores at opening…but people did indeed get in and get them at MSRP. Some stores had reported stocks of ~28 XT’s each. One of the issues in the long run is people that have been waiting IMO; even if they keep up with demand in terms of manufacturing, people are going to drive scarcity for at least 6 months to a year IMO. May also depend on if Nvidia can up their own availability as well.
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Yeah im gonna have to wait until autumn/winter for any reasonable prices I guess…or suffer another year…
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I’m right there with you; I have the cash now but:
- I don’t want to have to make a mad scramble, I’d rather eye up 2-3 models and strike when the time is right and
- I’m doing a fat retirement account conversion this year so I need to prepare for an additional ~$11K on my taxes owed next year lol. Good thing I got everything other than the GPU and PSU upgraded end of last year…
Edit: 3. I could probably stand to wait at least another generation for better uplift and $/perf, but unless there’s some serious breakthrough I don’t see anyone making a huge leap in the next round. I would love to be proven wrong though.
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Yeah its not so much a problem of affordability. Its that I dont want to be screwed over by such scummy moves…
Still waiting to see what the pricing/performance of the 9060 will be but so far it looks like im going with intel with their B580…
I expect Intel to do just that though, with their Celestial lineup.
Arc = Alpha
Battlemage = Beta
Celestial = REAL
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I would love nothing more than to see Intel and AMD bring the heat and make the market ACTUALLY competitive again (and AMD seems to be delivering on their end, at least in numbers).
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I honestly dont see anything changing with those 2 unless Intel comes and takes over a large chunk of their users. Problem is that people are still buying at these stupid high prices, they have no reason to change if people are still buying…
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I saw a few in stock on amazon still a bit ago but not the models I wanted and want to get from newegg so I can trade in
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FWIW, official microcenter stock quantities showed they did have a good number at MSRP. But if you’re outside the US, then who knows.
But if history is any indicator, AMD’s pricing is likely to become reasonable over time. Unlike with Nvidia.
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Yeah we dont have that outside the US…
Gotta wait a few months for that price drop.
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And with no reference design for the 9070/9070 XT, we’re also at the mercy of AIBs for prices even before retailers. That said, AMD did say that they specifically optimized even the fabrication techniques and design of the RDNA4 so that they would be easier and cheaper to produce in volume, both to keep supply up and costs down with the consumer in mind. We’ll see how that works out, but it’s nice to hear that they actually put that into consideration.
I kind of expect the 9070 to see a drop in 6 months-1 year (also depending on how RX 9060 turns out) but I suspect the 9070 XT will stay up for a bit until the fervor drops and supplies stabilize.
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Anybody Homelab? Got 3 mini 1 liter pcs and was thinking about having a proxmox server with services like Jellyfin, adguard, vm etc. Still got questions on if I should put them in a cluster or I should just have them independent nodes. Also questioning why I only got a 5 port network switch rookie mistake.
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Yes I just finished my guide.
Although thats with an SBC so its with openmediavault. I assume you have an intel cpu with those mini pcs so I would look at Unraid or truenas for that. If going truenas, look at snapraid + mergerfs setup for your drives.
Cluster imo is only something I would use if I had mission critical stuff (like business related). Otherwise for just a media server with jellyfin and/or music with Navidrome, I would just stick with one. Less power consumption as well which is good.
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or if you’d like a more Apple/Synology DSM NAS experience. Check out Redpill
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Does it also have the same dumb drive restrictions like the DSM does?
I don’t know. I have 3 16TB SATA drives in DSM Hybrid RAID 5, a 256GB SATA RO cache and a USB external 16TB for NAS backups locally.
It’s running on a now ancient i7-2600 with 16GB ram. Solid for file services, Roon Server, Docker hosting Pihole and something else small, DLNA server…not much but it’s speedy and was cheap
Redpill lets you pick the model you want to build a loader for…just pick a model that doesn’t have the restriction that matters too you. I’m running a ‘1522+’
Can you not use that 256GB (SSD I assume?) as storage?
That is exactly one of the restrictions with synology…cant use the NVME slot as storage, only as cache…unless u use a damn script…
Sorry, I don’t know if it’s restricted or not. I have enough RAM that a RW cache is simply not important to me. The vast majority of my use is RO, music, movies, the occasional files I update and auto laptop and phone backups that run at low priority
I’ve had my share of RW caches go bad over the years with HP and DELL back in the early 00s that unless it’s required for the workload I wouldn’t do it
What’s your use case that a RW high speed volume would be beneficial, hyper visor? Best to test the need vs. just setting it up cause you can and risk data corruption and/or loss
Oh I dont mean to use it as cache. I mean use the SSD as storage, THAT is what is restricted.
And is honestly pretty damn bad, as you should have your docker containers on the SSD.
Right. Understood. The same liability exists. You’re betting that both drives will do the right thing all the time vs. 3 or more…R5 is much more reliable than R0. Synology doesn’t have the best history with managing data volume on NVMe and very likely the good reason why they restricted it
My two tiny Docker containers run completely from RAM, all 77MB at last check and only Pihole ever writes to its log. NVMe is slower than RAM, even this old RAM. The other is DeepHarmony that serves as a bridge between my beloved Harmony remote and Roon
you need this script then.
I assume you are using SHR and not actual Raid 5? Since you want to be able to mix/match drives if needed.
I want to avoid using HDD for docker as it is a lot more noisy than having it all in the SSD.