We have had forum members report that friends have ordered systems from you in October arrive very fast with retail (with the box) 3080s in them from you. Cards that had huge queues. !
Thanks for the history lesson, very interesting and no I wasn't aware.
I still think you misunderstood my first post today.
Let me be hypothetical for a second.
Card A has 1000 back orders from retail customers and twenty back orders from system customers. (A pretty representative split for 3080)
Nvidia give said vendor 90 for retail and 10 for SI every week.
Said vendor therefore offers Gibbo 90 and me 10.
Can you see how an SI customer who ordered later could get their system before a retail customer?
I know it might not feel fair but as I mentioned earlier, system integrator have to take what they are given to keep their build staff employed.
The fact of the matter, with 3080 and 3090 at least, my SI allocation does occasionally exceed my orders so I give it to Gibbo. Again we're not talking big numbers. I wish we were getting 100 of any card per week.
Because supply is healthier on 3060 & 3070 and we've had to change every system which was 2060/2070 based, i hold on to excess allocation on these because that's where the majority of our system demand lies.