u/MammothUnique4147

Reviewers used to shit on the 5070 but it was always a good card, because of the negative press it really hung out around the MSRP far longer than every other Nvida card.

For months I was screaming from the highest Mountain tops that if you were even thinking of upgrading on a budget you needed to buy the card now!

In all honesty it feels like a Massive door has now permanently sealed behind us. There's no 6000 series coming in 2027, what you think they're going to redeploy DDR7 and up the VRAM of the next line of GPU'S...Ha!

It's like that scene in Batman where the Joker throws the pool stick on the floor and they have to fight for it.

Whatever is left is left and if you need something it's only going to cost more next year when all of the Ram has been presold.

Ok I got a response to my questions. Here is the first email I shared yesterday (copy and pasted and translated from Tagalog)

Subject: Important Update: Steam Frame Orders Schedule & Rollout Hi Team, We have an important update regarding the planning for Steam Frame orders. We need to assign Customer Service Agents to handle these transactions. Schedule and Rollout: Date and Time: Friday, July 24, 2026 | 3:00 PM PHT (12:00 AM PDT) Reminders and Expected Steps: System Setup: Please prepare and check your systems to ensure the smooth processing of transactions. Security Check: Some transactions need to be isolated for security verification. Support: The support team is ready to guide and assist all agents handling Steam Frame orders on the said schedule. If you have any questions or clarifications, please reply immediately to this email. Thanks, [REDACTED] Customer Service Manager Concentrix

Here is the follow up from the questions I asked. He doesn't actually sound as if he knows all that much, also he didn't answer all of my questions. I've translated it from Tagalog.

bro sorry late reply, just got home. my eyes are barely staying open, super lack of sleep, shift earlier was brutal.

about what your buddy asked, the timing in the memo is correct--12am PDT so around 3pm PHT rollout here in our portal. but as for price zero info really, cause even our leads know nothing haha. we're already used to being left in the dark on raw pricing and server logic before a drop anyway.

my guess only cause based on the toolsets they had us set up earlier maybe they'll do a randomized staging queue or lottery system so servers don't crash. this is just my guess based on the queue buffers created, but nobody up top is confirming to us.

the scope of our team for the drop is super specific. we're just secondary risk queue, literally 8 hours staring at a dashboard processing auto-flagged escalation tickets. when the automated risk filter trips, only then it drops into the hold bucket, that's the only time we check if it's fraud or not.

just tell your buddy ABSOLUTELY DO NOT USE A VPN OR PROXY. if he uses a vpn or proxy or if the IP isn't accurate to the card's billing region, the automated system hits him with an automatic payment hold or auto decline right away. plus no one is going to fix that live for him.

on drop day itself our permissions are locked down too--we have zero authorization to touch live queue buffers or override active blocks while the session is running.

days or weeks after is the only time appeal tickets can be reviewed in manual batches. besides that auto checks will also screen account age and purchase history to filter out fresh bot profiles. so if he gets locked out on drop day, he's really done for, no human on our side can pull him out of the queue in real-time.

gonna sleep first bro eyes closing for real. chat again later!

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I remember when I got an Oculus Rift, how cool that was using VR for the first time, even if it felt like looking out through two cardboard rolls... You could immerse yourself and for a moment forget the screen door effect.

​Then I upgraded to the Index, which offered a world of promise, and it was truly a sea change in terms of experience. Playing Half-Life: Alyx or watching videos in Bigscreen was absolutely amazing...

​However, it seems like the software leveled off; there really wasn't anything to PUSH the technology anymore. I think that was in no small part due to the Quest users and their headsets' limitations, leading developers to build for the lowest common denominator.

​Now with the Frame coming out, that I'm super hyped for because of "cool specs"—as a gamer who doesn't spend time playing sim racing or flying... what will there be for me?

​Is this just going to be a 1,200-dollar headset for me to play Walkabout Mini Golf?

​The hardware is glorious, but at the same time, I feel that there's nothing to push the software, and we are gonna be stuck once again with the latest and greatest titles that have Quest specs.