Hugs from me too @Grayfox_83 Will be waiting a while now.
But in all seriousness, cannot go far wrong with the TUF 3080.
But in all seriousness, cannot go far wrong with the TUF 3080.
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No, it's a mixture of both. Nvidia are underproducing chips, yes, but OCUK also massively oversold both literally and in their marketing. They claimed to be in the "best possible position" to acquire stock, but have been barely getting scraps next to the competition, and later even admitted in an email that they are smaller than at least two other UK-based PC sales competitors.
You can try to use the spreadsheet to get a rough view of how long all the queues are, but as a summary, long, and neither the long or short ones are moving. If you are happy to sit in a queue I'd suggest calling OC and asking the sales team which queue is shorter/if they know of any decent deliveries coming in rather than guessing, since the answer right now is "who knows".
If you want one sooner elsewhere is probably a better bet. Some people seem to have good luck with various discord groups/stock notification services. Since this is OC's site we aren't allowed to be any more specific than that so you'll have to look elsewhere to find them though.
Honestly if I was you I'd wait a month since hopefully we'll at least start to know if any of the queues are moving regularly by then/places with less preorders might actually have some stock.
My speculation for most of this week is that this wasn't ever the case and Gibbo just said it to try and avoid questions.
Only speculation of course but I just cannot see literally any situation where he will know he's getting most stock but simultaneously not be able to say which cards are coming. It makes no sense. If he knows he's getting most cards then by default, he knows which he is or isn't getting - otherwise how would he know it's most?
Oh deary. .
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Well this doesn't look good lol. Hugs back to all here I guess! What's the chances of getting one before Christmas at this point? I'm eyeing up the 3070 to as I'm upgrading from a gtx 1080.
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CAN SOMEONE WHO IS CLOSE ENOUGH TO GIBBO ASK HIM IF HE PERSONALLY EVEN WANTS TO SELL THESE CARDS ANYMORE
3070 is in better shape than the 3080,
A 3080 pre Christmas I cant see happening unfortunately
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Welp, I'm back. Had a trinity 3080 in my hands and then in my rig, then had a mate bribe the crap out of me for it.
Into the strix oc Queue I go! What's the highest number anyone's got on it?
Into the strix oc Queue I go! What's the highest number anyone's got on it?
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If only playing @1440p is it worth holding out for a 3080? Or what about AMD's latest offerings?
@Grayfox_83 I'm in queue position 1052 last I checked for TUF 3080, and I ordered 21st September.
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Damn. That's crazy. That sounds awful. That's a long time to only be 1052 in a queue.
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Speaking as someone who has used a 3080 I'd say yes, some games maxed (red dead and far cry new dawn) are above the 10gb vram that has, let alone the 8 from the 3070
I play at 1440p, im getting into vr so went with the 3080, if not it would have been the 3070,
Amd 6900x releases on the 18th, but I expect day one sell outs and more queues if your not quick enough
yes mate, Get it somewhere else
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Yeah good point. Probably best just to hold out. Thanks for the advice.
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I wouldn't call £140 more than it should cost a bargain.
Although infinitely a better deal than the money we've payed for imaginary cards.