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percept said:
I use it for professional work as well as gaming. So up to 16hrs a day! The strix and suprim have better components from what I've read. I just feel more comfortable with the top cards and being a designer, I do have a thing for aesthetics. (not rgb).
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Fair enough, was just curious. I've watched/read reviews that weren't impressed with it over the Trio for the increase in premium over it. Think it's like an extra £200 for the same temps and same FPS in games as the Trio. Just seems the £900+ cards don't offer very much for being that much more. The Suprim is a behemoth. I have a mid tower size case and it wouldn't fit in mine. The MSI cards seem to be a good 20-30mm longer than most of the cards. The Trio on the way will only just fit in my case with my radiator on the front.

I ordered it on the back of the 2080 Ti gaming X trio tbh and how good reviewers said that was. Wasn't waiting on the reviews day of release to decide.
 
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percept said:
I use it for professional work as well as gaming. So up to 16hrs a day! The strix and suprim have better components from what I've read. In the last 10 years I've had three FTW cards, and a Strix, and they are still running. I've had an evga 780 superclock that overheats, and a asus dual that artifacts, and a reference zotac that died completely. I just feel more comfortable with the top cards and being a designer, I do have a thing for aesthetics. (not rgb).

If I could get an FE I'd be most happy. Aesthetics and a bargain. Also, I'm 44 years old, way past flashing my epeen on the interweb.

Edit: I'd also say, you preach the word about how much of a waste it is, because I need a lot of trio people to turn them down to have a chance at getting one xD

At the end of the day, if I get my trio I'll not be upset about it.
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I was surprised to find that Inno3D have chosen to use Nichicon low ESR capacitors on their cards, just about the best in the business and unusual to find this quality on a GPU too.
 
Gibbo said:
Due to the fact order volumes are so high at present it is unlikely now we will open any ordering up now before Christmas as we'd risk being hit with fall out about people complaining they ordered before Christmas but it never got delivered so we shall continue building stock up, but were talking mainly 3060Ti, 3070, 6900 XT and some 6800's. There is not enough stock built up to even consider putting 6800 XT or 3080 live any time soon.
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Many thanks for your response! It looks like I'll be checking back after Christmas. Thank you again for your tireless efforts and endless updates. You guys rock!
 
Flake87 said:
I was surprised to find that Inno3D have chosen to use Nichicon low ESR capacitors on their cards, just about the best in the business and unusual to find this quality on a GPU too.
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I would trust Inno3D. They certainly aren't noobs when it comes to gpu's. My 1st ever gpu was an Inno3D 12mb Voodoo 2 (other than the matrox it was linked to)... that was about 22 years ago. I still have both cards and they still work to this day, or at least they did the last time I checked.
 
Agreed it would be nice for OCUK to start offering "part swaps" (e.g. "okay, we've fulfilled all XYZCard backorder, who here wants to trade their spot in ABCcard for this") but I suspect it will be very hard to implement - for example if my card was 650, how can they know that I'm ok with a 750quid card? And if I'm not, do I get next dibs on a free 660 too? And how do you actually get the money? Reach out manually?

Tons of logic that they'd either have to do by hand, or build in a website which means a lot of engineering for a unique situation.
 
puntloos said:
Agreed it would be nice for OCUK to start offering "part swaps" (e.g. "okay, we've fulfilled all XYZCard backorder, who here wants to trade their spot in ABCcard for this") but I suspect it will be very hard to implement - for example if my card was 650, how can they know that I'm ok with a 750quid card? And if I'm not, do I get next dibs on a free 660 too? And how do you actually get the money? Reach out manually?

Tons of logic that they'd either have to do by hand, or build in a website which means a lot of engineering for a unique situation.
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The fairest way to do it imo would be like below example for MSI.

Trio MSRP £749 - Suprim MSRP £810

As far as I know the trio has been four different prices depending on when you bought it.

So if you bought the Trio at £749 then you pay £60 to move to a suprim, so MSRP @ £810.
£779 + £60 = £839.
£799 + £60 = £859.
£839 + £60 = £899.

How to reach out? Well they could utilise the queue email. Just add an extra line with a link to the top 100 trio people's email, to invite them to express interest. If there are any left after that, then email the next 100.

I don't know if they'd have to refund first, or could just bill you the difference - I guess that depends on the systems.

As for changing brands, they would offer whatever is available to people in the same tier. how much you pay depends on the price difference of the offer card at the time you purchased.

If they didn't ask people to pay the difference I think they'd lose too much money. The numbers are too large to offer free upgrades imo.
 
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ScottiB said:
Don't hold me to this because I don't know for sure but we charge Irish VAT to Irish customer and then pay that VAT to the Irish revenue service, so I don't foresee any additional charges.
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I mean I bought it (paid for it, pre-ordered) in September, so in theory the deal was made, the order was placed before Brexit. Preordering it is a "contract", that happened before Brexit.
I am not a lawyer but I guess then "before brexit rules" should apply to that order that was made before Brexit.

I just wonder if the parcel itself will show the order date, because if not the Irish customs probably will hold it back, and may charge some duty or something, or ask the proof that it was bought before brexit or someething.
 
Teal said:
Re Brexit, as Gibbo says, little is known for sure, but some things can be said...

Any EU-UK supplies made on or before 31 December will be treated as intra-EU supplies until 31 March 2021 so effectively no change if the goods are in transit before 31 December.

For anything not yet in transit, if they ship after 31 December then there should be no UK VAT charged, but VAT will be payable on the receiving end, and possibly duty.

So you shouldn't end up paying VAT twice.

Still a lot of detail to work out though...
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I think the contract was made the minute I ordered the product, the date of the parcel sending. or transit date or whatever has nothing to do with it. The contract was made under UK still in EU, so those vats/taxes/duty or whatever should apply. I think it would be unfair if they did charge duty on things that was ordered even on 31st of December.
 
cruz0e said:
I mean I bought it (paid for it, pre-ordered) in September, so in theory the deal was made, the order was placed before Brexit. Preordering it is a "contract", that happened before Brexit.
I am not a lawyer but I guess then "before brexit rules" should apply to that order that was made before Brexit.

I just wonder if the parcel itself will show the order date, because if not the Irish customs probably will hold it back, and may charge some duty or something, or ask the proof that it was bought before brexit or someething.
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im sure if they do that, you can just show them the email that has the date you pre orderd it no?
 
percept said:
If it's the one I saw then it was £969 and coming from America.
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If that's the case, that's one very expensive 3080, import duty + 20% VAT will take that to the price of a 3090................

Edited to add:- there will also be a handling fee from the postal service/courier to add to the cost. The HR code for importation of graphics cards is 8471.80.00.00
 
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matelot said:
what happened to the 50 units of the MSI Trio 3080 that were due in this week??!?
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Well apparently only 20 out of 50 turned up, how that happens who knows. Dunno what the reasoning behind that would be from a supplier..... That's a lot of cards missing. You'd think people in queue position below say 40, or atleast 30 might be pretty confident in getting one:rolleyes:

Just shows you don't get your hopes up even if your queue position is well within the shipment amount specified haha... Expect disappointment. Should be the Moto for 2020.
 
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Coowhan said:
Well apparently only 20 out of 50 turned up, how that happens who knows. Dunno what the reasoning behind that would be from a supplier..... That's a lot of cards missing. You'd think people in queue position below say 40, or atleast 30 might be pretty confident in getting one:rolleyes:

Just shows you don't get your hopes up even if your queue position is well within the shipment amount specified haha... Expect disappointment. Should be the Moto for 2020.
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lol true
 
Hi, Gibbo mentioned there were some Palit 3070's being shipped when he posted today. Is there an expected date for when OCUK will receive the shipment? And how long does it take to then arrive to the customer? Thanks
 
Gibbo said:
Due to the fact order volumes are so high at present it is unlikely now we will open any ordering up now before Christmas as we'd risk being hit with fall out about people complaining they ordered before Christmas but it never got delivered so we shall continue building stock up, but were talking mainly 3060Ti, 3070, 6900 XT and some 6800's. There is not enough stock built up to even consider putting 6800 XT or 3080 live any time soon.

We are also building large stock piles on some AMD CPU's which will also go live, again when is an unknown at the moment, but right now the plan is to get Christmas out the way.





Yes it looks like 20 units were booked in today from a delivery placed 7th December, we are now not expecting any more of these until after Christmas.
We also received 6pc on 3080 TUF NONE OC today as well, out of 19 expected, the warehouse will let me know in coming days the reason for short shipment unless the stock is found or arrives.
The 8pc Strix 3080 NONE OC are still not booked in, but unsure if arrived yet as the supplier has warned their couriers are delayed.




They were not in the update as no 3080's have shipped, last delivery on Gaming Pro 3080 NONE OC and OC was 11th December and those goods have shipped out.
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First you mentioned 50 pcs, now only 20!?!?!?!?!?!?! nothing until after Christmas?? WTH
 
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