Long time listener (well, since Sept 17th) first time poster. Ordered an Eagle OC at 3.14 (sat refreshing the wrong page on Nvidia for 40 mins like an idiot)..Current queue position after the drop today, 80 something.
Luckily, using Telegram I managed to nab a 3080FE today off the *actual* favoured partner. I'm not cancelling my Eagle until it arrives though (Monday).
I'm posting not to gloat, far from it (card hasn't arrived yet) but to say some of the fury has been quite unreasonable.
1. People are angry because OC are still taking orders. Why? That's OC's mess to fix and I assume they aren't stupid, so it probably means they know 1000s are going to drop. It doesn't affect when you get the card, so unless you've ordered and THEN found out you're 3000th in a queue (most ranters are not) you beef has no basis.
2. People are furious that this "Gibbo" has a few bob or cars or something and doesn't spend his day telling you all the nothing he knows, or is allowed to say, and if he did post daily nothings then you'd complain about that. Also, money doesn't buy class, clearly, because comms have been rubbish, but they wouldn't actually change anything.
3. You rant about other places getting cards. I admit this irked me, though actually the Eagle's haven't really been anywhere. In the end I took matters into my own hands, treated it like a game, and had distill (useless, but maybe i set it up wrong), nowinstock (too slow), discord (erratic notifications) and in the end I joined a Telegram group that was brilliant and worked like a charm. I always had the security of "I've got my backup with OC". Admittedly not everyone can dish out at least £1300 at once by having a backup and cash to snatch another, but those are the very people who should be happy they got in before prices rose.
In summary you have four options, 1.wait 2. wait and hunt 3. Cancel and hunt 4. Be angry and miserable over a graphics card because you backed the wrong horse this time.
P.S. all said, would I ever preorder with OCUK again? Absolutely no chance. But I'm not *angry* about it, that would be silly.
Luckily, using Telegram I managed to nab a 3080FE today off the *actual* favoured partner. I'm not cancelling my Eagle until it arrives though (Monday).
I'm posting not to gloat, far from it (card hasn't arrived yet) but to say some of the fury has been quite unreasonable.
1. People are angry because OC are still taking orders. Why? That's OC's mess to fix and I assume they aren't stupid, so it probably means they know 1000s are going to drop. It doesn't affect when you get the card, so unless you've ordered and THEN found out you're 3000th in a queue (most ranters are not) you beef has no basis.
2. People are furious that this "Gibbo" has a few bob or cars or something and doesn't spend his day telling you all the nothing he knows, or is allowed to say, and if he did post daily nothings then you'd complain about that. Also, money doesn't buy class, clearly, because comms have been rubbish, but they wouldn't actually change anything.
3. You rant about other places getting cards. I admit this irked me, though actually the Eagle's haven't really been anywhere. In the end I took matters into my own hands, treated it like a game, and had distill (useless, but maybe i set it up wrong), nowinstock (too slow), discord (erratic notifications) and in the end I joined a Telegram group that was brilliant and worked like a charm. I always had the security of "I've got my backup with OC". Admittedly not everyone can dish out at least £1300 at once by having a backup and cash to snatch another, but those are the very people who should be happy they got in before prices rose.
In summary you have four options, 1.wait 2. wait and hunt 3. Cancel and hunt 4. Be angry and miserable over a graphics card because you backed the wrong horse this time.
P.S. all said, would I ever preorder with OCUK again? Absolutely no chance. But I'm not *angry* about it, that would be silly.
I was pointed in the right direction by a previous post! cheers, hope you get yours soon
was a bit slow today!
Enjoy the card though.
