r/SipsTea • u/SunnSaiyaan • 1d ago

Chugging tea Chinese bride gifts her partner a flagship GPU at wedding he breaks down in tears

That's an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 that costs around $12,000

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u/Ms4Sheep 17h ago

I’m in Beijing right now and I can buy them easily online on a Chinese website. There’s a lot of them and not really a problem to get unless you are buying a lot of them.

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u/BearstromWanderer 16h ago

That's the real intention. The US government doesn't care about a few citizens getting a 5090 for a huge markup. They want to make it inefficient for a data center to get all they need.