Nvidia’s ‘priority access’ program is one way to get your hands on an RTX 4090
by Monica Chin from The Verge - All Posts on (#64PNH)
Some lucky shoppers will get to buy these early. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge In a recent post on the GeForce forums, an Nvidia community manager announced that the company is testing a new program called verified priority access." The program will give some potential shoppers the opportunity to reserve a GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics card without the kerfuffle that can sometimes be required to get their hands on a new GPU.
The program, as VideoCardz correctly pointed out, is a similar idea to EVGA's Elite Priority Access system, which gave the company's Elite" members 24 hours of exclusive early access to its new products. Elite status didn't cost money - users who were active in the company's forums and Twitch streams or who had purchased and registered EVGA products recently were eligible....