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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards
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Soldato
Im almost tempted to give NV a miss after this. What a terrible day for customer relations. AMD have a chance to capitalise on this...
Associate
Man what an ordeal. Had Nvidia, scan, Ocuk and amazon all open, took me over an hour to get one from scan. Had two different cards in the basket at ocuk, site crashed! Noticed OCUK have some cards in stock pretty much with arrival over the next week.
Didn't see ANY founders cards, went from notify to out of stock mysteriously, did they honestly allocate any to the UK?
Didn't see ANY founders cards, went from notify to out of stock mysteriously, did they honestly allocate any to the UK?
No way the nvidia website had any stock. Wasn't interested in buying but was checking the whole time.
So many people on this thread saying the will get the FE edition. No need to buy AIB versions, I wonder how many changed their mind and tried to get an AIB version.
So many people on this thread saying the will get the FE edition. No need to buy AIB versions, I wonder how many changed their mind and tried to get an AIB version.
Don't know if I got a a card or not or maybe 2? Had several sites open, Nvidia went out of stock immediately then another site that had stock the order went through as far as payment then crashed after payment was confirmed, getting to that point took almost an hour. Meanwhile I had the same with another site. Mailed both one has some back to say they are still going through orders and will mail me to confirm if I got a card soon.
So I may have no card or two - who knows. What a cluster....
So I may have no card or two - who knows. What a cluster....
Associate
I had this from s**n, got confirmation, but about 4 hours later had confirmation payment had been processed and just waiting on dispatch now
Had a good read on the nvidia forums and apparently a lot of bots were involved which screwed up nvidias store site...
That was the most terrible launch I ever seen.
It was exciting at first then 30 mins of refreshing pages was getting very bored.
I managed to get the palit which is one of the ones I liked at half decent price £689. The reviews look fairly good on the card it has good noise levels and performance in games is same as reference.
The palit does score lower on 3d mark than other cards by quite a bit but that doesn't bother me.
Just happy it isn't a loud pos, because I didn't actually read any reviews before I bought it.
It was exciting at first then 30 mins of refreshing pages was getting very bored.
I managed to get the palit which is one of the ones I liked at half decent price £689. The reviews look fairly good on the card it has good noise levels and performance in games is same as reference.
The palit does score lower on 3d mark than other cards by quite a bit but that doesn't bother me.
Just happy it isn't a loud pos, because I didn't actually read any reviews before I bought it.
Soldato
2020 and sites can't protect against bot scripts, how about a captcha code before you purchase....
Soldato
No matter what the state of the launch, if you're not desperate for a card it's absolutely worth waiting for AMD to play their cards. You've not really got much to lose waiting a few more weeks. AMD may surprise us. But I'm not getting on the hype train that's for sure!
Associate
sites just come back up may have been off all day you never know?
This has been a disaster for both suppliers and Nvidia. Fingers crossed NOBODY EVER lets their marketing team manage a new product release like this again. Currently sat looking at a RTX 3080 order on another site (that had a functional site at 2pm and was in stock when ordered) stuck at "awaiting picking" with email confirmations (at 10:30pm) confirming an estimated delivery for Sept 18th. Overclockers, ******, scan and many others will have had long term relationships with customers damaged buy this fiasco today. Not to mention last minute price changes, orders that went out of stock while processing, duplicated ordering and ZERO insight on the final price and stock level at the point of sale due to website overload... I'm not surprised Amazon kept a distance from this.
I think this is exactly what Nvidia wanted, they're probably celebrating right now..
Remember, they're leaders in ai, yet cant combat bots on their site..
I'm 100% sure thats how their marketing will spin it.