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Joining the back of the Queue..

Sipha

Sipha

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So as a late comer to the party, being unable to make a decision on what card to actually buy..

Is there any way of telling or enquiring which 3080's have the lowest queue numbers so I could join that queue and have half a chance of getting said card in the shortest time possible ?

I'd hate to Pre-Order card X and find out the queue is 5000 long for instance...

Thanks !
 
no real easy way of telling. but the msi and asus and gigabyte cards are the most popular ones.

they seem to be getting more of the Overclocked cards vs the standard ones.

asus tuf msi vent and gigabyte eagle seem to have the longest que's and they have had very little in from msi and gigabyte on the lower end cards.
 
Sipha said:
So as a late comer to the party, being unable to make a decision on what card to actually buy..

Is there any way of telling or enquiring which 3080's have the lowest queue numbers so I could join that queue and have half a chance of getting said card in the shortest time possible ?

I'd hate to Pre-Order card X and find out the queue is 5000 long for instance...

Thanks !
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Your 1080 will suffice for a long while yet, to save the inevitable frustration, id wait until they're readily available.

The amount of posts/threads where people are complaining about being told early next year seems to be tarnishing the excitement of getting a new card
 
Unfortunately, knowing the shortest queue has no real world meaning

(Brand names used are hypothetical and have no accuracy and are for example only)

Lets Say you pick Gigabyte base card, and lets say there is for talk sake 5manufactures asking for boards. The allocation might not be even split of 20% per Manufacture

then lets say gigabyte have 4 models, again who's to say they are production them in even number?

and also each manufacture will have their own production timescales and depending if shipping via sea or air freight to distributors makes a massive difference.

So yes you might pick a card and be 100 in queue but someone in say in position 3000 in an asus que could still get theirs first

Pick the card you want and wait, or wait and see what AMD have to offer.
 
Imagine joining the Asus strix rog 3080 non OC queue. Asus are not even making the card yet.

Customer support should be able to give you good advice.
 
Palit or Inno3d would be a reasonable option. Avoid Asus, MSI, Gigabyte (queues seem huge). EVGA is prioritising customers in the USA and I think Zotac had to delay shipping.
 
From personal experience the US tends to get prioritised over the rest of the world, overclocked cards (Strix OC etc) tend to be in high demand and so long queues remembering Pascal's launch, cheaper brands (Palit) and/or regular cards tend to be in stock sooner as theres less demand. Thats it really.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
From personal experience the US tends to get prioritised over the rest of the world, overclocked cards (Strix OC etc) tend to be in high demand and so long queues remembering Pascal's launch, cheaper brands (Palit) and/or regular cards tend to be in stock sooner as theres less demand. Thats it really.
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cheaper brands like palit you do know there the largest gpu maker out there? :(
 
varkanoid said:
If its anything like my luck whatever queue it is you join the shortest one and the longer one(s) move faster. :)
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There is a way of working it out, but it'll take some effort.

There's some info on queues collected here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nqzTL2tEIl5FLQqZLdTeJ2iLAOBR-yVURCgbsTn5LSU

You'd need a way of estimating the current queue lengths for them all, you could do that by looking at the distribution of queue length, it wont tell you exactly how long the queue length is because the highest queue number reported there wont be the total length, but it'll give you a good idea of the proportion of lengths of one queue to another.

Then you have to factor in what the queue movement delta is (change in length) for each queue, because cards are produced at different speeds by different brands. You can do this because each queue has members submitting multiple queue positions over a number of weeks.

Then you can weight those 2 things the relative queue length and relative movement speed and infer which queues will come to an end fastest and that'll be your queue which has the best shot at a card first. Assuming rate of delivery stays proportional.
 
Would you ever have thought way back in April/May you would be looking into the science behind queues just to get a RTX 3080 ?

Crazy Crazy Mad year.

:D
 
The only thing that concerns me is Big Navi and the actual buyable stock date as it could be weeks away from the ‘launch’ next week. Possibly even into December so they can make and ship as many of them as possible.
 
Stephen Garner said:
Gigabyte Vision OC also. I got mine within 2~ weeks from buying on 17th, and a friend of mine who didn't buy on the 17th, had his delivered yesterday.
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I ordered the Gigabyte Vision on the 26th of Sept and so far the queue has moved 15 places since then, and it's coming up on a month now and I'm 23rd in place.
I don't think it's one of the quickest moving queues, but certainly better than some considering there are models that haven't been sent/received at all.
 
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