Most come with an upcharge yeah, but normally only the high end ones with a steep OC profile and really fancy cooling shrouds are $100+ extra. There's several aftermarket 5070 available at MSRP.
I think the dream of getting one at MSRP makes it my choice card haha. And the thing that drove me away from looking more into the 9070 was that I can only get it for a little over what the 9070XT MSRP is supposed to be.
If I'm going to make a decision, I need to get the silly notion of MSRP out of my head
It's probably just a mental thing. If MSRP is 600 and I pay 700, I'll feel like a spent an extra 100 for being impatient or getting ripped off. But if MSRP is unrealistic, 700 I guess is the real "MSRP" so shouldn't feel bad.
When the 20xx series was new with Nvidia, it was still possible to get cards at MSRP from retailers like Best buy, just had to be very vigilant checking availability. But if not a single person has been able to pick up the card at MSRP in 6 months I don't think it's worth holding breath.
Just go your own pace, too many creatives burn themselves out when people enjoy their work and feel they need to keep producing.. I hope you keep having fun with this for a long time!
So, other than the enclosure and print bed, what's actually left of the original printer?
The... Whole printer? The only thing they changed are the hot end and the control board. The entire construction of the printer, including all of the linear motion components that make these things so rock solid, haven't been touched. Swapping those two components out isn't anywhere close to a "custom built printer". Besides firmware, it's 90% stock, and it's trivial for someone with the expertise to get a klipper profile built for something like this.
You mean the song "Stan" by Eminem, where he talks about a guy named Stan who is a fan of something (in this case a famous person)? "[term] Stan" has been a thing for a couple years now. It was a song about an obsessive fan who doesn't understand parasocial relationships, but the term has grown to a much broader usage.
At my old job, we had phone surveys on the receipts. Customer could call and rate their service from 1-9 (I can only guess that when they implemented the system it could only register a single digit rating). When tallying up "positive" and "negative" reviews, 9 counted as positive, anything below that was negative.
We had one woman that would give us a review every week, but would give us an 8 because she "doesn't like odd numbers". We had to ask her to please stop because it was actually hurting our numbers.
Charlie Kirk committed suicide