It depends, I’m not sure if it’s a binning thing and they can’t make enough perfect chips for the 3090. Or it might just be limited memory, they’re using all the gddr7 that’s being made and that’s with many different suppliers.

There are some small regional places

It’s parallel unlike a CPU, so there isn’t anything inherently wrong with just scaling the chip up in size and power. It just makes your room hot if you have the xx90 on at full blast for hours.

Is it more stable? I always ended up getting either a kraken or like 2 fps with a giant space station.

As always, buying a used previous gen flagship is the best value.

You have to keep inflation in mind. 550 would be 450 2019 dollars.

Not really a countermeasure, but the scalping certainly proved that there is a lot of people willing to buy their stuff at high prices.