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5970 -- any clue when they're going to be in stock please?

genuinly peeved off with this, EVERYONE hasnt been able 2 keep to there ETA dates including OCUK, and whats more annoying is the amount paid for my XFX 5970 Black edition to arrive tuesday, seing as its my day off which pretty much means as its gonna be in their stock on that day (if were lucky -.- ) not only will it not turn up tuesday but ill miss the delivery n have 2 collect it thursday, rather irritating and still, no actually 'for definate' date .... uncool =/ & aint like us customers havent paid enough to get our item on time lol
 
Guys seriously you will be lucky to get a 5970 before January. Every 5870/5970 is going to the high end pre-built systems.

TSMC are lucky to hit 10,000 wafers a month when it should be well over 20,000. Add to this the low yields and pressure from the likes of Dell...
 
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Guys seriously you will be lucky to get a 5970 before January. Every 5870/5970 is going to the high end pre-built systems.

TSMC are lucky to hit 10,000 wafers a month when it should be well over 20,000. Add to this the low yields and pressure from the likes of Dell...

They can only do 9k 40nm waifers a month, and they are down to 6k till after xmas, thats for both Nvidia and AMD for all their ranges(well Nvidia low, low, low end, AMD mid and high end).


The reason you probably didn't get many 5970's doing much end of last week, thanksgiving and a lot of uk retailers buying supply off American distrubutors(well quite often, hugely bigger market, will often have more supply than a smaller distro just for the uk). Imagine shipping time is, normally 5 days USA to being in stock in the UK store. They buy, they put up the ETA and they could easily forget that customs/shipping could easily take a few days delay over thanksgiving. I was watching the US stock market on Thursday and couldn't work out why it wasn't opening, Thanksgiving is just something no one remembers as we don't have it here, I'd bet thats the main issue.

AMD have stated mid december for supplies to ease up. I would assume it because, well waifers take several weeks to go from start to finished, one of the biggest problems is TSMC's problem wasn't caught during production, they only found out basically when you would have had a huge batch of waifers ready to ship and found they didn't work :(

Which means they have to wait for the next large batch to come out of production before they can start shipping in larger numbers again. Its NOT like a slice of silicon goes in the plant in the morning and comes out in the evening as cores that ship the next day to AMD.

THe dates company give for stock supplies in this case, AMD saying when supply will ease up, will be accurate because they know when a big batch of waifers is due.

Lets just all pray, cross out fingers and do some kind of high yield/TSMC not screwing up dance to the gods and seriously hope TSMC haven't screwed up another huge batch of cores. Supposedly only one production line had a uncalibrated part so the other lines "should" be fine.
 
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Thanks for the insight drunkenmaster, thanksgiving is plausible for a delay in the delivery although that being thursday I would have hoped the cards would be nearly at the UK by then for a friday delivery so I'm not sure.

Anyway I have hope for a delivery in the next few days yet, I don't believe shops would allow a small number of pre orders with a set delivery date if they didn't have a specific amount reserved for delivery soon.

If they were unlimited pre orders and no expected date at all, then I wouldn't expect to get my card until Jan.
 
Quick update, I got this from another store:

Hi there, the sapphire card hasnt come into stock yet, this is due to a delay in the shipment and sometimes stock can get held back at customers when this happens, i appologise for any inconvenience, Powercolor etc shipped out the other day and more due in next week, sapphire also to be in shortly. Hope that helps.

Looks like it effected everyones stock.
 
Got confirmation my XFX 5970 BE has been shipped today (have a real courier reference to track) ..... same retailer had some Asus 5970s earlier - so they are around if you look hard & often , and yes they did honour the £479 price!
Now to cancel the Sapphire OC I pre-ordered at £434 ..... they'll be pleased about that.
 
I saw a few people had dropped the £434 pre orders, well it's more money for them. I might even keep my pre order and just see how the prices fair, if they stay high have it come through and re-sell it for a profit. If I can find another reasonably priced one, which I doubt.

Anyway overclockers had the same 27th date as other places and changed the ETA to today 1/12/09 and on monday I was told from this other shop that stock was in "a few days" which they reckon is delivery wednesday and shipping out for thur delivery.

So it seems that the same delivery is supplying OC as well, just wonder what happens this morning, wondering if they'll be on time or what...
 
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The Sapphire 5970 was set for 27/11/09 then fell back to 1/12/09 and hasn't been in stock yet? Now the ETA/Date is gone completely, any idea what has happened here, I was told elsewhere that sapphire imports had made it past customs finally, no one seems to know whats going on.
 
The lack of information about this is astounding. Im not having a pop at OCUK as they are providing more information on most when they get it. But information regarding the shortages all seems to be rumour and hearsay, some places are saying no new stock till new year others that the production problems are now over and stock levels should be back to normal by next week
 
Yeah if production has stopped and my reserved pre order dated for the 27th (not with OCUK!) doesn't arrive by the end of the week there is acutally going to be a mushroom cloud...
 
I got one on pre order same place as you, but still keeping an eye out if they pop up in stock elsewhere (despite being a fairly big price difference!)

Frustrating thing is one I wanted was in stock here on Monday, tried to buy but my credit card fraud protection kicked in and card got declined. When I rung them they said it was an abnormal purchase despite me spending over £1100 on the same card at OCUK over the past 2 months. Tried on my debit card which is a different bank and they did the same thing only they went one step further and cancelled the card and I have got to wait for a new one to be sent out.
 
So can we expect some price drops when 5970 will be available all over the place?
Should it be for about £400? What do you guys think?
 
Firstly these forums are not for contacting OCUK, they dont monitor them for questions like this so dont expect a response! There is a customer support 'presales' forum, the webnote system, and a phone number where information like this can be obtained from the people in the know - IF they know themselves.

Secondly FATBOY is posting here as soon as he knows stock is definately available, he cant do any more! We are getting several threads a week asking the same thing atm which is pointless because there is never an answer unitl the stock has arrived. OCUK and other retailers are not the ones at fault, the due dates retailers provide are based on what their suppliers (not ATI) give them, so they simply cannot promise or update people on due dates with any certainty until the shipment is in transit to their wharehouse. Suppliers often have their own delays from the manufacturers, customs and shipping firms, which on products in such short suppply as the current high end ATI stuff, means deliveries are varied in quantity, brand and are sporadic.
 
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I placed an order a few weeks ago for my new system (£2000 of system) and I can't see if any of it works until my 5970 comes :(

It was ETA end of November, then pre-order, then 1st Dec, now pre-order... still nothing. The WebNote guy keeps saying "They will be in stock soon sir!" as he has been for nearly 2 weeks.
 
Got mine, but only by changing my order when a different brand came into stock. Still, I'm happy.
 
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