The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 sold out quickly at Micro Center Thursday morning. Customers had started camping out in front of ...

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.

Customers had started camping out in front of the Houston Micro Center Wednesday morning to get their hands on the high-end GPU. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 sold out quickly at Micro Center ...

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.

@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.

TL;DR: YouTuber JayzTwoCents built a gaming PC at Micro Center to celebrate NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series launch. He signed an RTX 5090, which was later listed for $5800 on Facebook Marketplace.

Outside of camping out in front of a Micro Center location days ahead of the retail release, scoring a GeForce RTX 5090 has been a near-impossible proposition.Even pitching a tent was not a ...

In short, Micro Center customers should plan for the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080. Because there’s no telling what voucher you’ll get. Micro Center also advises customers to show up early.

The caveat is that it is in Finland, but I've personally seen the GeForce RTX 5090 pop up at my local Micro Center a bit more often than usual.

Imagine spending $3,000 on Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card only to unbox a pile of backpacks instead. That’s what happened to one unlucky consumer who encountered a bizarre case ...