AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER

benjii · 21 Oct 2020 at 11:54

Kaapstad said:
Not worried about minor problems like this, I WANT MY GRAPHICS CARD !!!!

When the meteors hit and ignite all the natural gas, how am I going to heat my home if I don't have a power hungry space heater?!

Scania · 21 Oct 2020 at 12:02

Gibbo said:
I've already had several. Praying AMD do a better job with their upcoming launches.

To be fair, it would be some achievement to balls it up more than this....

Mr Oblong · 21 Oct 2020 at 12:03

Scania said:
To be fair, it would be some achievement to balls it up more than this....

Don't set them a challenge!

benjii said:
When the meteors hit and ignite all the natural gas, how am I going to heat my home if I don't have a power hungry space heater?!

TBF, the background radiation and residual heat of the apocalypse will make it harder to maintain low GPU temps. You'll want a good AIB card for it.

Cyber-Mav · 21 Oct 2020 at 14:03

Kaapstad said:
Or just grab a secondhand 2080 Ti.

im after the new video engine in the ampere cards so it can do av1 decode in hardware. means my cpu can chug on for longer.

Roadrunner_668 · 22 Oct 2020 at 01:04

Rroff said:
Plenty of places with the production capabilities and capacity to rent if you have the money in terms of creating PCBs and placing components, etc. and even things like enclosure assembly - brackets, cooling, etc. - the bottlenecks are elsewhere.

I suppose you are right, i hadnt considered it really

deusexlumina · 22 Oct 2020 at 03:40

this thread will age like a fine wine

Roadrunner_668 · 22 Oct 2020 at 04:04

like fine milk

2Thumbs · 22 Oct 2020 at 08:29

Hotwired said:
Paper launches are to mess with your competitors not to sell products.

Or to increase your stock market share and get more investors. Dunno why, maybe they have a big purchase planned of another company somewhere... :confused:

fx1 · 22 Oct 2020 at 08:56

2Thumbs said:
Or to increase your stock market share and get more investors. Dunno why, maybe they have a big purchase planned of another company somewhere...

thats not how it works. When you buy shares in Nvidia today Nvidia doesnt sell them to you.

Bubo · 22 Oct 2020 at 09:25

I feel sorry for OCUK the most, imagine all the 1000's for orders they have placed with suppliers for these cards and have had to pay up front for them all. That must be hundreds of thousands of pounds sitting in the wallets of MSI, EVGA etc, which will only be slightly offset by the slight more hundreds of thousands sitting in OCUK's bank account, due to the retail mark up. That is how it works isn't it?

deuse · 22 Oct 2020 at 09:43

Bubo said:
I feel sorry for OCUK the most, imagine all the 1000's for orders they have placed with suppliers for these cards and have had to pay up front for them all. That must be hundreds of thousands of pounds sitting in the wallets of MSI, EVGA etc, which will only be slightly offset by the slight more hundreds of thousands sitting in OCUK's bank account, due to the retail mark up. That is how it works isn't it?

I can't see them paying up front for them.

zoffster1 · 22 Oct 2020 at 09:55

deuse said:
I can't see them paying up front for them.

Indeed, most businesses only get invoiced after the goods/services have been delivered.

Frubeling · 22 Oct 2020 at 10:01

No point quoting deuse since he blocked me, but the retail markup on graphics cards is negligible

deuse · 22 Oct 2020 at 10:13

zoffster1 said:
Indeed, most businesses only get invoiced after the goods/services have been delivered.

Yep.

And where would they get the cash if 90% put in for a refund

Bubo · 22 Oct 2020 at 10:29

Frubeling said:
No point quoting deuse since he blocked me, but the retail markup on graphics cards is negligible

Exactly, so OCUK taking all this flack from their customers, when it is only something like a net £42.37 sitting in their account. Unless it is true that OCUK have placed all their orders without having to pay anything up front. :eek:

Dirk Diggler · 22 Oct 2020 at 11:09

Bubo said:
I feel sorry for OCUK the most, imagine all the 1000's for orders they have placed with suppliers for these cards and have had to pay up front for them all. That must be hundreds of thousands of pounds sitting in the wallets of MSI, EVGA etc, which will only be slightly offset by the slight more hundreds of thousands sitting in OCUK's bank account, due to the retail mark up. That is how it works isn't it?

This made me LOL

Of course they don't pay the manufacturers up front, and when they eventually do pay the manufacturers a couple of months later it will be minus the large gouge.

queamin · 22 Oct 2020 at 11:45

Kaapstad said:
Not worried about minor problems like this, I WANT MY GRAPHICS CARD !!!!

That is cool

KiNgPiN83 · 22 Oct 2020 at 11:54

Scania said:
To be fair, it would be some achievement to balls it up more than this....

Another problem AMD have is that a good proportion of their prospective customers will be angry Nvidia order'ers so even if the wait for an AMD card isn't actually as bad they will still be worse for these people... Still, luckily i have no money for a GPU right now so i get to sit and watch it all unfold.

Darujhistan · 22 Oct 2020 at 12:09

Bubo said:
I feel sorry for OCUK the most, imagine all the 1000's for orders they have placed with suppliers for these cards and have had to pay up front for them all. That must be hundreds of thousands of pounds sitting in the wallets of MSI, EVGA etc, which will only be slightly offset by the slight more hundreds of thousands sitting in OCUK's bank account, due to the retail mark up. That is how it works isn't it?

Just lolz, poor OCUK...they don't pay up front for cards, but they've got everyone's money up front for cards they can't deliver (and as DD pointed out they'll keep the gouge). The whole launch was a scam from start to finish. An NV/retailer co-ordinated cash-grab.

End of story.

Kelt · 22 Oct 2020 at 13:08

I DON'T fancy boys said:
this thread will age like a fine wine

It's already a fine whine.