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ARCHIVE - *** NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 SERIES STOCK SITUATION *** - NO COMPETITOR DISCUSSION

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I apologise in advance for stating the obvious but this really is quite simple, cards were announced, there was much more interest than anticipated, stock levels were extremely low, now it's a waiting game.

If people are unhappy with their money sat in OcUK's bank account then we have the right to cancel, that is the cost of keeping our position in the queue.

Regarding the whole "is 10gb enough" issue, honestly, for the majority on here buying a 3080 how future proof do you need it? I will own one for a maximum of 2 years, I have a 10gb 3080 card reserved @ £649 which I know should be fine for the duration of ownership, why would I or anyone spend probably £150/£200 more on a 20gb card when the memory isn't going to be utilised during the time it's owned?, doesn't make sense to me.
 
Hairybudda said:
You're making a lot of assumptions, you have no idea what their infrastructure looks like and you have no idea how they're handling things like cancellations in the background. Opinions and facts are different things
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Yeah I did say given certain assumptions, but they're pretty safe I'd say. Cancellations and whatnot should be dealt with in the database is there's even a semblance of competency, it'd just be a flag IsCancelled = 0 or 1, you'd simply factor that into your SQL query. Even if that's not the case and it's all handled on bits of paper or something, then just query the DB orders and ignore the cancelled one and give the consumer the caveat that it's an estimate not corrected for cancellations, that's significantly better than nothing. Again not just in our best interest as consumers but good for OCUK as well since they're being bombarded by support requests for this stuff a lot of which need not happen with some automated/live stats.

It's the not knowing which gets most people. In all my time in management as I moved out of basic IT work, managing expectations has been a huge part of my job. If people know where they stand, even if that's like a long queue, that eases tensions more than simply being blind.

In other news, other sites I cannot name here have dedicated pages to list expected delivery dates from AIBs, and list next week as having deliveries between 30th and 2nd, so wed-fri and that's from all major AIBs, I'd be willing to bet the shipments to them are the same time OCUK get theirs, so we might see queue movement in small amounts by the end of next week.
 
Things change I've changed said:
I apologise in advance for stating the obvious but this really is quite simple, cards were announced, there was much more interest than anticipated, stock levels were extremely low, now it's a waiting game.

If people are unhappy with their money sat in OcUK's bank account then we have the right to cancel, that is the cost of keeping our position in the queue.

Regarding the whole "is 10gb enough" issue, honestly, for the majority on here buying a 3080 how future proof do you need it? I will own one for a maximum of 2 years, I have a 10gb 3080 card reserved @ £649 which I know should be fine for the duration of ownership, why would I or anyone spend probably £150/£200 more on a 20gb card when the memory isn't going to be utilised during the time it's owned?, doesn't make sense to me.
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Well I don't upgrade my gpu every 2 years and tend to keep them for 4 to 5 years. In 4 years 10Gb will not be enough for 4k gaming if we're already nearly hitting that.
 
jasonsony735 said:
Maybe not a good idea to order any 3080s until this is sorted out.
https://youtu.be/x6bUUEEe-X8
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1. Its been busted alrd
2. Jay is a tool and not taken vid down after he said he had no clue about em on tweeter.
3. Will get fixed with drivers and cards seem to changed from what they recieved cant look at caps used by reviewer's cards and so on and on.
 
DragosL said:
I read on a website that orders shipped after 20th of October are no longer eligible for the promotional bundle which includes Watch Dogs Legion and Geforce now subscription. Can anyone confirm this ?
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What the actual **** this better not be true they should honour all orders made during the promo period irellivent of shipping date!! Its nvidia's **** up so thats the least they can do

I heard that OCUK were just only issued a small amount and have requested more codes
 
TrM said:
even jay has backtracked a lot and changes a lot of his miss information in his youtube video he sould really take it down but no lets keep it up. youtube people should be sued for all this crap with no prof
https://twitter.com/i/status/1309904144887500800

come on man dont take a youtuber who know no better to make your chocies
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As I said Should take that video Down if he does not like spreading misinformation/unverified information. But WONT do it cause it's em YT moneyz and gets loads of views on it.
 
OG Don Mecca said:
What the actual **** this better not be true they should honour all orders made during the promo period irellivent of shipping date!! Its nvidia's **** up so thats the least they can do

I heard that OCUK were just only issued a small amount and have requested more codes
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Don't think so, the order/receipt says "£0.00 x 1 - FREE WITH GX-36B-MS: NVIDIA RTX Bundle Promotion - Watchdogs Legion & GeForce NOW" So it would be a violation specially since we already paid for it.
 
Things change I've changed said:
I apologise in advance for stating the obvious but this really is quite simple, cards were announced, there was much more interest than anticipated, stock levels were extremely low, now it's a waiting game.
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But it isn't that simple. Those cards that were advertised as simply "Pre Order", set no expectation of delivery time. However, those advertised as "Due 19th Sept", were misleading, particularly when the industry standard is to have some form of stock level monitoring which would inform customers at time of purchase that an item was no longer in stock or a stock allocation had been spoken for (which is what the other vendors do)
 
exiges said:
But it isn't that simple. Those cards that were advertised as simply "Pre Order", set no expectation of delivery time. However, those advertised as "Due 19th Sept", were misleading, particularly when the industry standard is to have some form of stock level monitoring which would inform customers at time of purchase that an item was no longer in stock or a stock allocation had been spoken for (which is what the other vendors do)
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It is that simple, because we as human beings have the capability to think beyond what a website tells us, we have all the pieces of the puzzle now and can see the bigger picture, it's pointless getting hung up on what the website told us when it got completely crashed out due to extremely high demand that turned any 'due dates' on their head, even OcUK right now aren't sure exactly what levels of stock they will be receiving and when.
 
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I think the clock-performance issue has 2 sides to it:

1. On one hand the GPUs are having trouble at well above the advertised specs so if they under-clock them to perform as specified then that should be fine.
2. On the other hand, Nvidia hyped the card up to be x2 the performance of a 2080 and the reviews that were put out by 3rd parties all had GPUs with higher clocks, which is now misleading.

At the end of the day you buy the card for the performance, not the numbers on a spec sheet. If a company hyped something up and then let reviewers validate that hype whilst knowing that the end product will then need to be neutured then it's pretty suspect. Of course one could say that Nvidia didn't know, but that's up for debate.
 
Thancred said:
hold up what

thought they were dropping tomorrow?
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This based on the an excel spreadsheet that is supposed to be a US retailer (I seem to remember the uber large rainforest-y one?) supply sheet.
May not be relevant to us in a whole bunch of ways.
 
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