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

keyser said:
Everyone is free to cancel their preorder and try elsewhere. Good luck with that.
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I haven't made a preorder. Also, I'm not even blaming OC - it's the entire country. I have been through mining crazes before, and GPU delays. But this one? It's totally unacceptable. We have several situations now which are causing a huge mess -

GPU manafacture much lower/slower than it should have been.
Mining Boom
Bots (although to be honest, this has always happened. Before, there was enough stock to manage it)
People at home and not working due to Covid restrictions (Quite why people are mass buying GPU's in such economic and job insecurity I find odd, but hey ho)
Covid causing delays (Personally I always find this a crutch. Manafacturers/shippers are either working or not. If they are, I fail to see how a virus can slow things down - but they're)
Brexit

All of these situations have come together and caused a massive mess. Everything has happened at the same moment. Do I expect things to get back to RRP? No, it's unlikely. Although to be honest, they should. Once the market has calmed, GPU's should always be at, or near, RRP. All I ask for is a little fairness. If I can get a 6800XT for £700? Sure, I'd be happy. That's 'only' £80 over RRP. But £1300 when RRP is £620? You must be joking. There's just no excuse.

As said, I reckon June-July is when we'll see things more like normal. Possibly even May, if we're lucky. Once stock has risen, there's no real reason why prices shouldn't be near RRP. But as I stated, that is a ridiclious time to wait for a GPU after it's launch, and if AMD/Nvidia have any fairness, they will delay the next gen a little to reflect these delays. I don't want to be paying £700-£750 for a GPU that will be surpassed in a year through no fault of mine due to delays.

I largely blame the lack of production of GPU's for this mess. That's where most of the issue stems from. They should have really delayed launch by a month or two to stockpile more cards. The very least they can do is delay the next gen slightly.
 
69Dude said:
It must be nice to be in the EU where they're swimming in cards, oh wait that's not right.
Blaming those who voted in a way that they dislike, shame on them for even entertaining that thought, so bitter.
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I couldn’t care less about the politics either way, but I did get a good laugh out of the finger wagging tone from a guy called “69Dude”. :D
 
Welp, Ive been contacted today to look at switching my power supply for my build, as the one I chose wasn't availble BUT my card **WAS** in stock.
So I just had a lovely phone call with OCUK and sorted a swap for my Power and should be expecting my build next week ^^ That's at least 4 people out of the pre build queue (Im 99% sure I was 4th)
My card was the Asus TUF 3080 soooo, in theory, things are starting to look up and will just continue to get better ^^

Just in time too, My PC blue screened for the first time ever today D:
 
matty007 said:
I haven't made a preorder. Also, I'm not even blaming OC - it's the entire country. I have been through mining crazes before, and GPU delays. But this one? It's totally unacceptable. We have several situations now which are causing a huge mess -

GPU manafacture much lower/slower than it should have been.
Mining Boom
Bots (although to be honest, this has always happened. Before, there was enough stock to manage it)
People at home and not working due to Covid restrictions (Quite why people are mass buying GPU's in such economic and job insecurity I find odd, but hey ho)
Covid causing delays (Personally I always find this a crutch. Manafacturers/shippers are either working or not. If they are, I fail to see how a virus can slow things down - but they're)
Brexit

All of these situations have come together and caused a massive mess. Everything has happened at the same moment. Do I expect things to get back to RRP? No, it's unlikely. Although to be honest, they should. Once the market has calmed, GPU's should always be at, or near, RRP. All I ask for is a little fairness. If I can get a 6800XT for £700? Sure, I'd be happy. That's 'only' £80 over RRP. But £1300 when RRP is £620? You must be joking. There's just no excuse.

As said, I reckon June-July is when we'll see things more like normal. Possibly even May, if we're lucky. Once stock has risen, there's no real reason why prices shouldn't be near RRP. But as I stated, that is a ridiclious time to wait for a GPU after it's launch, and if AMD/Nvidia have any fairness, they will delay the next gen a little to reflect these delays. I don't want to be paying £700-£750 for a GPU that will be surpassed in a year through no fault of mine due to delays.

I largely blame the lack of production of GPU's for this mess. That's where most of the issue stems from. They should have really delayed launch by a month or two to stockpile more cards. The very least they can do is delay the next gen slightly.
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I think you have misread what is happening in this situation.
Firstly nVidia doesn't do marketing, it is production led and as a consequence it doesn't read markets at all well. It disastrously over priced the RTX20XX series without the necessary performance gains over the previous gen and sales were poor.
Then the RTX30XX comes in with the performance increase the previous gen should have had, and decrease the price, not anticipating the pent up demand.
There's an issue with AMD CPUs performing better than Intel, so that demand is placed in Taiwan and Intel Manilla fab slows, but Intel don't produce for anyone else. Silicon production is at capacity, with Iphone PS5, Xbox X and all of them are strugging to meet demand.

So, you have an underestimation of demand, lower pricing than the market expected, a lack of production capacity, other manufacturers demands, it's a long list, and nVidia are not the only company affected by it.
 
Flake87 said:
So, you have an underestimation of demand, lower pricing than the market expected, a lack of production capacity, other manufacturers demands, it's a long list, and nVidia are not the only company affected by it.
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I don't think lower pricing is an issue now with 70 class cards for instance starting at £700 wiping out any real value the product offered.

Ampere is now turning into Turing where attaining the previous generations flagship cards performance comes in at £700
 
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RetroReaper said:
With regard to no cards being discontinued while I would love to believe that's the case, there has been resolute radio silence re the 3080 amp extreme, Zotac have pulled all mention of it from their website and has an eta of somepoint before or at the heat death of the universe with no indication of anything being done to even aliviate peoples concerns, having badgered their(Zotacs) Cs departments at this point across the globe for months and nothing. With all due respect unless you are privy to information as when they might actually do something about it like I dunno acknowledging the issue and concerns of customers that have paid I shall remain of this mindset, this whole mess is a bad ******* joke I don't blame ocuk completely as I'm sure they've been melting the phones of suppliers trying to source everyone else's cards which is commendable especially when others have had their orders fixed to get them their/a card however doesn't do me one iota of good it's not even a case of very low supply there is none, none have been made the only clues are the frankly wrong image on the ocuk website that's the amp holo, and stuff dated prior to the launch then from their reps the date slid from mid Oct through Nov past December till they stopped even moving it back it the alleged 3090 amp extreme has a date of January as of this morning per zotacs US reddit. Not bad going considering its February now

In the 20+ years I've been building my own systems I've never witnessed anything like it,

But due to the current situation I feel like I'm trapped in some sort of Mexican stand off me screaming at zotac just make the ******* card them saying no and oc reminding quietly in the background that I can cancel at any time what can be done.

Tldr, P**Ed with zotac, frustrated with ocuk and their suppliers. What a jolly merry-go-round.
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Meanwhile in the trinity non-oc queue, there's only been 15 cards since launch day. What a joke of a company (Zotac to be clear).
 
Victoria Wolf said:
Welp, Ive been contacted today to look at switching my power supply for my build, as the one I chose wasn't availble BUT my card **WAS** in stock.
So I just had a lovely phone call with OCUK and sorted a swap for my Power and should be expecting my build next week ^^ That's at least 4 people out of the pre build queue (Im 99% sure I was 4th)
My card was the Asus TUF 3080 soooo, in theory, things are starting to look up and will just continue to get better ^^

Just in time too, My PC blue screened for the first time ever today D:
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If u dont mind me asking when did u ordered ur pre build?. so if u order a pre build system u get front of the que for ur graphic card?.
i was 61 in the cue and 70 asus tuf suppose to come but i didnt get any notifications. so my guess is at least 20 card gone for pre build system.i ordered my 3080 none oc tuf on the 17 September at 17:00 and still waiting.
 
abraxax said:
If u dont mind me asking when did u ordered ur pre build?. so if u order a pre build system u get front of the que for ur graphic card?.
i was 61 in the cue and 70 asus tuf suppose to come but i didnt get any notifications. so my guess is at least 20 card gone for pre build system.i ordered my 3080 none oc tuf on the 17 September at 17:00 and still waiting.
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Prebuilt systems are on a separate queue, afaik the cards in the update thread don't go to prebuilds.
 
interpol24 said:
It was the email informing me I was on hold that prompted me to finally take interest in this thread. Like others, I wanted to clarify some of the ambiguous language used in the mail and instead of answers found only more questions here, about price increases, import fees, potential discontinuations of products, etc. The whole thing is a fiasco.



Probably the most relevant thing I've read in this thread.
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BONDPlayz said:
Add another packet of haribos in, should cover it.
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The real reason we are customers right here.
With the price of haribo in Dublin, its basically a free graphics card with my haribo order [expat]
 
Joxeon said:
Think of the pre build queue as the VIPs who walk straight in at the club while the regular queue is stood outside shivering.
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Here's the hard question, would you rather pay a stupid price to a scalper and get your card sooner.

Or pay an established vendor extra to jump ahead in the queue?

Next day delivery premium exists for a reason.

Cast your votes
 
RachelsCorporateLife said:
Here's the hard question, would you rather pay a stupid price to a scalper and get your card sooner.

Or pay an established vendor extra to jump ahead in the queue?

Next day delivery premium exists for a reason.

Cast your votes
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It is a tough question. To be honest, if I had stack of money, yes, I would likely pay a premium to get the card sooner. A month or two wait? I could deal with. But this has been 4 months now and my heart goes out to anyone who ordered on release day and is still waiting - it's a joke.

But no, I don't have a stack of money. Not helped at all by this Covid situation. It's probably a good thing that the release coincided with my loss of income, leaving me with no option to wait anyway. And I would argue that even for people with good salaries, that paying almost double for a GPU is simply not acceptable. You're vastly overpaying for a product that shouldn't be so expensive.
 
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