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*** NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 SERIES STOCK SITUATION - NO COMPETITOR DISCUSSION ***
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Are cards being made available to pre order every so often? (interested in the 3080 but I think I might settle with a 3070, I can always sell it if 3080 becomes steady in future) I always come and check if theyre available but assumed they will be made available to pre order when there is stock, but i see people here are saying a batch of 3070's were made available. If they are being made available to pre order what do you think is the best way to go about getting one?
Well interestingly, i got the queue update email and i had moved forward 1 space (5 > 4) then a little while later, confirmation my order was shipped.
Read the thread by Gibbo. You should still be able to get a 3070 ordered as some are still showing as available. Please follow the guidelines Gibbo states in the OP though.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...ilable-for-ordering-very-soon.18917389/page-2
I think payment has to be taken by the retailer manually (or maybe via automated script retailer side) for it to show as cleared.
Associate
Finally my 3080 TUF Gaming OC has arrived! I ended up ordering from a competitor with a low queue.
Wish everyone best of luck and hope you all get your cards soon!
Wish everyone best of luck and hope you all get your cards soon!
why not just give codes to everyone who ordered before then?
Appreciate it mate, may get it by 2022 now thanks to you!
Nov 27th - Dec 24th. Moved over 125 places in queue.
Dec 24th - Jan 22nd. Moved less than 15.
Ordered almost 4 months ago & still at 96. Will most probably still be waiting in another month or two at least.
Ridiculous situation.
To add salt to the wound;
Dec 24th - Jan 22nd. Moved less than 15.
Ordered almost 4 months ago & still at 96. Will most probably still be waiting in another month or two at least.
Ridiculous situation.
To add salt to the wound;
- Nvidia & the AIB's are working on a million & one different announced (after the 3080) & yet unannounced cards, putting a strain & delay on the already minimal parts.
- Every YouTuber, reviewer & celebrity under the sun got multiple units for free at launch.
- Nvidia (un)knowingly hashed the launch allowing bots to the majority of the small amount available.
- Whether it's dirty deals or bots (unlikely in this case) there's pictures of hundreds of the specific aib card I ordered being used on one bit-mining rig. Can't imagine how many thousands of 3080's have been acquired in whatever way by these groups for these purposes.
Because the codes cannot be used without a 3080/90 installed and Nvidia have never given them enough codes to match the total outstanding orders.
So giving the codes to people who can use them before they expire still makes the most sense.
Associate
Regarding Ray Tracing: don't worry about that, as you'll have it disabled in most games anyway. I have the 3090 Suprim and Ray tracing adds eye-candy (it is interesting but doesn't actuslly make a game more fun) but slows the frame rate too much. Constsnt 144FPS is FAR more valuable to a gaming experience than lighting effects. In my opinion.
Ray tracing is still 2 generations of developnent away, at least, from being really good.
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Yep, wasn't a consideration at purchase, and wasn't a consideration when going to the red side. Not sure how much I'll miss from not having DLSS, but as I am expecting the upgrade from a 1080 to be pretty huge, I'm not going to worry about that too much either. I won't ever be trying to buy a launch day card from Nvidia again though, that's one thing I'm very certain of!
Soldato
Reviewer samples has been covered in depth by most of them - pretty much, they dont get to keep them; they review and either return or send to the next on the list, usually within 24/36 hours.
So when 3080 was released, MSRP was £650 and we had multiple cards at that price or slightly above. At the time £1 = £1.32
Then GBP dropped to about $1.26, we saw prices go up to about £725 and over. Exchange rates were cited as the reason.
Now that £1 = $1.37, prices are still £725 and over.
Then GBP dropped to about $1.26, we saw prices go up to about £725 and over. Exchange rates were cited as the reason.
Now that £1 = $1.37, prices are still £725 and over.
I remember them citing exchange rates as a reason. Abit later it was said that the reason prices were £650 at launch was because manufacterers subsidized a limited amount of the cards on launch day.
That's right, there was a $50 subsidy from Nvidia to the manufacturers on the first units to allow them to hit the MSRP, that probably covered the first few seconds of the orders...
Since then it has been made very clear that the manufacturers can't make money at the original MSRP and they have all put their prices up considerably.
The improvements in the exchange rate will have helped keep the impact of the price rises down, but it is nowhere near enough to eliminate the increases completely.
My card was shipped to Ireland on the 7th with dpd lads any info on dpd shipping to ireland yet? getting really fed up kinda salting the wound after 5 months waiting, I know neither issue is really your guys fault I just would like some info when I might expect my gpu now @Gibbo @ScottiB
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Thanks for the reply!! What rule did i break sorry, I am quite new to this forum, still finding my way around