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Buying an RTX 5090 from Micro Center now means signing a form promising it won't leave the US (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 month ago by eager_eagle@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

buying the PC required that they fill in a form and have their drivers license scanned, connecting their name to their purchase.

What if the buyer decides to sell the system or its GPU second-hand years later and that person then sells it overseas? What if the system is stolen and ends up abroad?

One comment on the thread also claims that Micro Center also won't sell an RTX 5090 to a customer if they've ever bought one in the past.

Sounds like ITAR or EAR. Assuming EAR: Welcome to the minefield that is buying a firearm. If it winds up overseas and someone decides to throw the book at you then it's a federal felony. With that driver's license scanned I'm sure it'll be protected very well, so there's no need to worry. If you got a prebuilt through Costco, your purchase probably got recorded through their membership system (or that information could be reported retroactively if the rule is new).

I remember this being an issue for the Playstation 3 (or was it 2) back in the day. Is there anything more recent than the 5090 that this has been applied to?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If this is about Saddam using it to send missilies, it was the PS2

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Saddam was using PS2s to launch missiles? Couldn’t you do that better with some old laptop?

That reminds me, did they find a PlayStation along with all the porno VHS tapes in bin laden’s hidey room?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There is some inkling of truth to this (the PS2 being used for military use, not Saddam buying them). At launch the Emotion Engine, largely thanks to the VPUs, could achieve a higher theoretical output than the most expensive PC CPUs of the time IF you could parallelize the arithmetic*. They're very well suited to calculate stuff like trajectories.

Anecdotally, Kazuhiko Aoki (the legendary game dev of Chrono Trigger / Final Fantasy fame, not the policitian), said that during the development of Final Fantasy IX, they had to check if the game worked on PS2's backwards compatibility, and they had problems sending a devkit from Japan to Hawaii

*Total of 6.2 GFlops when you combine all three, which is higher than the Pentium 4 Willamette and Athlon Thunderbird.

[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Talk about OBE.