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

[spazzo]

And that's definitely preferable to constantly having to be on my phone/discord waiting for drops, it's stressful and frustrating. I'd much rather know I'm number 990 and will get it eventually.

Thats what you think, but what if you wait 10-12 months, for a card that gets discontinued for whatever reason. I feel a lot of these back orders won’t be met and will be refunded anyways.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Thats what you think, but what if you wait 10-12 months, for a card that gets discontinued for whatever reason. I feel a lot of these back orders won’t be met and will be refunded anyways.

Its been 5 months since the launch of these cards and here we are. Struggling to buy a 600 ish pound item....

 

[Grissol21]

Thats what you think, but what if you wait 10-12 months, for a card that gets discontinued for whatever reason. I feel a lot of these back orders won’t be met and will be refunded anyways.

why do you think they would be discontinued? they were only released 5 months ago.
Nvidia have a roughly 2 year release cycle, they're not going anywhere any time soon.

 

[ikarai]

I'm gonna need a bigger graph...

This physically hurts.

 

[Joxeon]

why do you think they would be discontinued? they were only released 5 months ago.
Nvidia have a roughly 2 year release cycle, they're not going anywhere any time soon.

They had a 2 year cycle while AMD were asleep at the wheel but with RDNA3 due at the end of this year/early next then nvidia might be forced to step up a gear.

 

[Sarge2255]

I love seeing people complaining when they're at like No. 2 for only like 5 weeks, when there's people at five hundred who haven't changed in 3 months

Absolute Madness!

 

[spazzo]

why do you think they would be discontinued? they were only released 5 months ago.
Nvidia have a roughly 2 year release cycle, they're not going anywhere any time soon.

With all the rumours about the 3080ti coming out, and all the resources to build graphics cards being very rare atm, they could just scrap the 3080 all together and put focus on the ti. They’d be too many models in the 30 series, they’d cut losses on people that paid 600-700 on a product when people will pay 900+ for the same chip. They’ve shown zero respect to the customers that have paid for a card and have clearly been mercenary’s to suppliers. Nothing would surprise me now anyways.

 

[Grissol21]

With all the rumours about the 3080ti coming out, and all the resources to build graphics cards being very rare atm, they could just scrap the 3080 all together and put focus on the ti. They’d be too many models in the 30 series, they’d cut losses on people that paid 600-700 on a product when people will pay 900+ for the same chip. They’ve shown zero respect to the customers that have paid for a card and have clearly been mercenary’s to suppliers. Nothing would surprise me now anyways.

I highly doubt that. The amount of work that goes into the design and testing of the chips, and "reference design" boards is massive, along with the driver code that needs to be updated to reflect the new HW. Companies even the size of Nvidia just wouldn't be turning out the products that fast. Can't see RDNA3 coming out this year either, even for the over achievers at AMD (a much smaller company) . With supply as bad as it is now, they don't have to rush to drop new cards. Demand for the current ones is high, so they'll be making a crap ton of money for a good long while to come, and can comfortably milk it too. That's the time they need for R&D for the next batches of cards. it got to go for prototyping eng samples and QE testing/validation and so forth, all those steps take months upon months. They probably had to start on the next gen while Ampere was in the final phases. Design was done, so that team worked on that side of things giving them the time they need to do their research and design (which again is months upon months/several quarters).

Also, why would Nvidia drop products in their stack, if anything, they always add more. They could drop the 3080ti for 1000-1200 and they know someone will buy it for that. They already know people will pay the for the 2080ti. they will keep something in the 3080 price band anyway. They might have to raise MRSP though, it seems the AIBs cant make boards at the prices both AMD and Nvidia recommended.

 

[Kevskii]

Morning @ScottiB and @Gibbo,

Did we ever hear back from Gigabyte regarding the rumours about discontinuing of the Eagle series? I have searched through the posts and I can’t anything came back about it?

I’ll go back to patently lurking in the forums waiting for my special day when I get the delivery email

I’m at 450 ish now in the Eagle OC queue, at my half year in the queue I may get myself a little cup cake to celebrate blow out a candle or something.

 

[Coreylus]

I highly doubt that. The amount of work that goes into the design and testing of the chips, and "reference design" boards is massive, along with the driver code that needs to be updated to reflect the new HW. Companies even the size of Nvidia just wouldn't be turning out the products that fast. Can't see RDNA3 coming out this year either, even for the over achievers at AMD (a much smaller company) . With supply as bad as it is now, they don't have to rush to drop new cards. Demand for the current ones is high, so they'll be making a crap ton of money for a good long while to come, and can comfortably milk it too. That's the time they need for R&D for the next batches of cards. it got to go for prototyping eng samples and QE testing/validation and so forth, all those steps take months upon months. They probably had to start on the next gen while Ampere was in the final phases. Design was done, so that team worked on that side of things giving them the time they need to do their research and design (which again is months upon months/several quarters).

You say that but look at the 3060ti which was released just after the 3060

 

[DirtyT]

You say that but look at the 3060ti which was released just after the 3060

The 3060 hasn't been released yet......

 

[graphicsPAD]

Morning @ScottiB and @Gibbo,

Did we ever hear back from Gigabyte regarding the rumours about discontinuing of the Eagle series? I have searched through the posts and I can’t anything came back about it?

I’ll go back to patently lurking in the forums waiting for my special day when I get the delivery email

I’m at 450 ish now in the Eagle OC queue, at my half year in the queue I may get myself a little cup cake to celebrate blow out a candle or something.

Thats all they are, just rumours. Think you are looking for this post https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/34516411

 

[graphicsPAD]

You say that but look at the 3060ti which was released just after the 3060

There is no 3060. Do you mean 3070?

 

[Sarge2255]

So , what monitor do you recommend with this card? And do you think this situation will improve before the very expensive 4Series cards come out?

 

[Kevskii]

Thats all they are, just rumours. Think you are looking for this post https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/34516411

Thanks I had seen that, I hope they are I would hate to wait 5 months to be told I am not getting anything :/

So , what monitor do you recommend with this card? And do you think this situation will improve before the very expensive 4Series cards come out?

From what I have seen online, most 1440 resolution monitors with high refresh rates work really well. I have two 1080 144hz monitors at the moment which are good even now on my RX 480, so the 3080 will knock games out with those out no problem.

I’ll upgrade to 1440 or 2k next year maybe depends if they come down in price. I can’t go back down to a lower refresh rate though my eyes, they burn whenever I play on my gfs 60hz monitor. After spending £700 on a new card I’m not looking to shell out anything more than that for a better screen, not anytime soon anyways.

 

[Coreylus]

There is no 3060. Do you mean 3070?

No I have made a mistake, the 3060ti are going to be released in 10 days apparently, i was thinking it was out already

 

[turbot1984]

No I have made a mistake, the 3060ti are going to be released in 10 days apparently, i was thinking it was out already

3060 Ti came out early December. 3060 is 25 Feb

 

[graphicsPAD]

So , what monitor do you recommend with this card? And do you think this situation will improve before the very expensive 4Series cards come out?

I currently have a BenQ XL2720Z which is 1080p and 144hz. But once I receive my card will look at getting a 1440p ultra wide, possibly a G34WQC-EK. But that depends on what else is on the market by the time I get my card.

 

[Lohse]

Obviously for ROI We also need to sort out the VAT situation and that seems to suggest that we are going to have to unpack, refund VAT, reprint the documents and repack hundreds of parcels. I'm not sure exactly how many orders are affected but I have seen at at least seven full pallet loads that are quarantined in the warehouse waiting on the solution.

I appreciate that I'm a few days late to this, but can I ask you to clarify what you mean by this, particularly 'refund VAT' and implications of that?

I thought that you'd been VAT registered in Ireland so no changes, or do you mean VAT refunded by the state and then done over just to have the paperwork in order - or do you mean VAT refunded to customers individually and now we're liable for individual customs fees?

This isn't meant to sound accusatory if I am, I'm asking from ignorance because I can't wrap my head around it and I'd like to understand as an Irish customer.

 

[interpol24]

I appreciate that I'm a few days late to this, but can I ask you to clarify what you mean by this, particularly 'refund VAT' and implications of that?

I thought that you'd been VAT registered in Ireland so no changes, or do you mean VAT refunded by the state and then done over just to have the paperwork in order - or do you mean VAT refunded to customers individually and now we're liable for individual customs fees?

This isn't meant to sound accusatory if I am, I'm asking from ignorance because I can't wrap my head around it and I'd like to understand as an Irish customer.

It's not entirely clear yet, but it seems Irish customs aren't happy with the paperwork provided by DPD, who are looking for new paperwork from OC. OC were lead to believe there would not be any problems because they're registered for Irish VAT, but that apparently is not the case. It also seems like different courier companies have different requirements, so the issue might be partially exacerbated by DPD. To my knowledge it also has not yet been confirmed whether or not VAT is the only charge at Irish customs or if there are additional import fees. OC are still working on a solution but it's been mentioned that the most likely outcome is that Irish customers will have their VAT refunded by OC and then will have to cover the import charges themselves. This poses a particular problem for some customers (like myself) who didn't pay directly to OC (Amazon Pay for me), since partial refunds are not allowed. Either the full amount can be refunded or nothing. All we can do is wait and see what solution is offered.