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Sean Hollister
Micro Center soft opened its Silicon Valley store with a truckload of GPUs.

The grand opening is tomorrow at 10AM PT, but you can already go shop — I even got a special look inside its GPU-filled stockroom! There’s a buttload of cards, including an RTX 5090 signed by Jensen (not for sale), plenty of AMD 9070, and it’ll have “very limited quantities” of Founders Edition (including the 5090 FE) tomorrow. Maybe open the boxes before you leave, though.

The highlight for me: a 12-foot-tall motorized revolving 3D filament wall which dispenses your color of choice.

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<em>Outside the new store.</em>
<em>There was already a small line today; 6,000 people visited on Wednesday.</em>
<em>The main aisle.</em>
<em>Techs build your PC at open air benches.</em>
<em>A chance to touch PC cases in person before buying.</em>
<em>The fanciest cases on display.</em>
<em>Inside the stockroom, piles and piles of GPUs.</em>
<em>More GPUs.</em>
<em>Even more GPUs.</em>
<em>A motorized revolving 3D printer filament dispenser wall</em>; <em>scan a swatch’s barcode, and it’ll bring the matching color to you.</em>
<em>Exploded view laptops serve as art.</em>
<em>Glorious offers a full keyboard switch tester demo station.</em>
<em>Not as many TVs as Best Buy, but lots of TV mounts with handy guides.</em>
<em>A wall of racing wheels you can feel before you buy.</em>
<em>The rarely empty checkout line.</em>
<em>I didn’t buy this pricy GPU; that was a friend of mine.</em>
<em>But I couldn’t pass up a chance to down a Bawls soda, the old LAN party beverage of choice.</em>
<em>One more look at the signed gold GPU.</em>
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