Video cards have been basically scalper only for the last 2 generations where have you been? People are paying $3-4k for rtx5090 they don’t give a shit if the thermal paste is bad they will just buy it because it’s the one available for purchase as retailers have no stock age Nvidia is not making more because they’d rather use their manufacturing allocation at tsmc for their highly profitable Ai chips.
Nvidia is not the only one selling cards. There are a dozen brands to choose from. If you needed one, wouldn’t you pay even more money for a functional one vs. one knee-capped because the OEM saved $0.005 on cheap thermal paste?
These brands sell other products besides GPUs and it hurts their brand
Video cards have been basically scalper only for the last 2 generations where have you been? People are paying $3-4k for rtx5090 they don’t give a shit if the thermal paste is bad they will just buy it because it’s the one available for purchase as retailers have no stock age Nvidia is not making more because they’d rather use their manufacturing allocation at tsmc for their highly profitable Ai chips.