NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti to be "available" on June 3rd, RTX 3070Ti on June 10th

[xPETEZx]

No you are wrong.

23rd December was the drop I got mine. Cards went out of stock just after 60 seconds on Nvidia website. 3080 FE has never been in stock for longer than mere minutes.
3060ti FE I bought before the 3080FE was in stock for like 20 seconds then gone.

3090FE on other hand has been available over an hour sometimes. Maybe you only mean the 3090FE has been available for the time period you state. The others certainly have not from my experience and others reporting the same in this very forum.

I agree FE card is not hard if you have an account, have payment ready, are refreshing the website continually all day, see the Captcha Traffic Light test to give you the 1 minute warning.
For some people this is classed as difficult and is not a modicum of effort. For some reason you seem to be acting a bit egotistical just because you have a card and others are not able to get one.
Try and be a bit more sympathetic ? Just a suggestion.

When you got yours...was it still nvidia handling it?

All I know is that since the competitor has taken over handling, its been relatively easy to get an FE card. And as I say, they are NOT sold out in seconds.
The last 4-5 drops I have managed to help friends get close. And been able to add cards to basket again myself. (Didnt checkout....as I already bought one so would get declined.)

Im trying to dispel the myth of the nano-seconds of FE stock. So much misinformation posted by people that are just parroting the meme "cards gone in 1ns" without having put any real effort in to getting one.

 

[Purgatory]

Be cheaper direct from EVGA if anyone wants to know.

LOL yes if you live in USA, I have had my notify for the 3090s and 3080s with EVGA since day one of them allowing us to register in a queue and not once for any of the cards did I get a notify that I could buy one to this day, while USA were getting to buy them in the queue, seriously so happy they failed as their cards are one of the worst this generation for quality and all the failures they had. EVGA have zero interest in the UK market and the EU one now it seems too with all the complaints from EU countries too.

I use to buy their GPUS all the time the Classifieds and KingPins , never again, their last good quality cards were the 980ti cards everything after that has been junk, I purchased their 2080ti KingPin and same day I sent it back for a refund as it was a cheap built card and had horrible coil whine and didn't make sense to keep such an expensive card when 2080tis were a lot cheaper than a kingpin and after that, I thought I would give them one more chance for a 3090 FTW 3 Ultra and got on the waiting list but in that time all the problems came out with the cards and the board tear downs showed how cheap they were made from cheap components to sticking thermal putty everywhere instead of the right sized thermal pads, this is done because they wanted to cheap out or because they didn't work out the right sized thermal pads needed or the right size was not made due to them not planning the cooler correctly for right sized thermal pads that were sold. They made a real mess, then the issues with the red lights of death sealed the deal for me and wouldn't touch one if they gave me it at half price, to this day their cards fail in wonderful ways the 3000 series.. EVGA are not the same company anymore of top end gear, they make junk now.

 

[Purgatory]

I've been on EVGA's list since November and still waiting lol.

You will be waiting till they come out with the 5000 series and then they will say hey we have a 3000 series for you that didn't sell, day one I joined their queue, not once they replied to me they had a card I asked to be notified on to this day. They don't care about the UK or EU anymore, they have gone back to being a USA company only and care about USA customers only. Good riddance, their stuff has become cheap rubbish with many problems from their GPUs to PSUs, never used their motherboards so can't comment there, but they only ever sold Intel boards and this time didn't want an Intel board as AMD rule the roost as we know.

 

[Baldbloke]

Can you buy FE direct from Nvidia store and would they add delivery costs on top?
Where would they be getting delivered from If the were to be delivered in UK?

This isn't competitor talk, I think, as OC won't be getting FE cards, I'm led to believe. And I sure as hell will never pay the AIB prices. Anyone who does should need brain surgery along with the wallet surgery they are going to suffer.

 

[stooeh]

At 3080 launch you could get from NV direct (I believe they used digital river for distribution) but they quickly switched to using local partners - in the UK it's an OCUK competitor that serves all FE cards

 

[Grim5]

At 3080 launch you could get from NV direct (I believe they used digital river for distribution) but they quickly switched to using local partners - in the UK it's an OCUK competitor that serves all FE cards

same **** happened in Australia, only 1 store is allowed to sell FE cards, no one else gets stock or is allowed to sell them and they get such little stock they sell the cards via a lottery it's such BS - as far as I'm concerned FE cards don't exist, I haven't seen an Nvidia FE card in person in years

 

[JohnG7]

Lol.



P.S would it be cruel to show him the photo of my 1080Ti FE / Titan Xp FE / 3090 FE all sitting next to each other when I got the 3090 back in Jan (they sure do exist).

 

[stooeh]

I still have my 1080Ti FE card in the old PC - back then was still a blower card though so runs hot and pretty loud. I did have it a loop when it was in main PC though

 

[JohnG7]

My 1080 FE ran pretty cool, think it was golden chip.

Benches and games ran 2100mhz Core (few dips now and then).

 

[Greebo]

LOL yes if you live in USA, I have had my notify for the 3090s and 3080s with EVGA since day one of them allowing us to register in a queue and not once for any of the cards did I get a notify that I could buy one to this day, while USA were getting to buy them in the queue, seriously so happy they failed as their cards are one of the worst this generation for quality and all the failures they had. EVGA have zero interest in the UK market and the EU one now it seems too with all the complaints from EU countries too.

I use to buy their GPUS all the time the Classifieds and KingPins , never again, their last good quality cards were the 980ti cards everything after that has been junk, I purchased their 2080ti KingPin and same day I sent it back for a refund as it was a cheap built card and had horrible coil whine and didn't make sense to keep such an expensive card when 2080tis were a lot cheaper than a kingpin and after that, I thought I would give them one more chance for a 3090 FTW 3 Ultra and got on the waiting list but in that time all the problems came out with the cards and the board tear downs showed how cheap they were made from cheap components to sticking thermal putty everywhere instead of the right sized thermal pads, this is done because they wanted to cheap out or because they didn't work out the right sized thermal pads needed or the right size was not made due to them not planning the cooler correctly for right sized thermal pads that were sold. They made a real mess, then the issues with the red lights of death sealed the deal for me and wouldn't touch one if they gave me it at half price, to this day their cards fail in wonderful ways the 3000 series.. EVGA are not the same company anymore of top end gear, they make junk now.

Agreed. About a month ago I finally got an email with my personal link to buy an EVGA card. Way too late.

 

[Greebo]

3080Ti FE £1049 and 3070Ti FE £529

Good price esp since AIB cards seem to be £1500+

 

[random_matt]

LOL yes if you live in USA, I have had my notify for the 3090s and 3080s with EVGA since day one of them allowing us to register in a queue and not once for any of the cards did I get a notify that I could buy one to this day, while USA were getting to buy them in the queue, seriously so happy they failed as their cards are one of the worst this generation for quality and all the failures they had. EVGA have zero interest in the UK market and the EU one now it seems too with all the complaints from EU countries too.

I use to buy their GPUS all the time the Classifieds and KingPins , never again, their last good quality cards were the 980ti cards everything after that has been junk, I purchased their 2080ti KingPin and same day I sent it back for a refund as it was a cheap built card and had horrible coil whine and didn't make sense to keep such an expensive card when 2080tis were a lot cheaper than a kingpin and after that, I thought I would give them one more chance for a 3090 FTW 3 Ultra and got on the waiting list but in that time all the problems came out with the cards and the board tear downs showed how cheap they were made from cheap components to sticking thermal putty everywhere instead of the right sized thermal pads, this is done because they wanted to cheap out or because they didn't work out the right sized thermal pads needed or the right size was not made due to them not planning the cooler correctly for right sized thermal pads that were sold. They made a real mess, then the issues with the red lights of death sealed the deal for me and wouldn't touch one if they gave me it at half price, to this day their cards fail in wonderful ways the 3000 series.. EVGA are not the same company anymore of top end gear, they make junk now.

I'll auto notify anyway, from 14:00. But yeah, probably zero chance anyway. Left my phone number etc for a Zotac at another retailer, don't believe they will sell them on the store.

 

[mikehhhhhhh]

No you are wrong.

23rd December was the drop I got mine. Cards went out of stock just after 60 seconds on Nvidia website. 3080 FE has never been in stock for longer than mere minutes.
3060ti FE I bought before the 3080FE was in stock for like 20 seconds then gone.

3090FE on other hand has been available over an hour sometimes. Maybe you only mean the 3090FE has been available for the time period you state. The others certainly have not from my experience and others reporting the same in this very forum.

I agree FE card is not hard if you have an account, have payment ready, are refreshing the website continually all day, see the Captcha Traffic Light test to give you the 1 minute warning.
For some people this is classed as difficult and is not a modicum of effort. For some reason you seem to be acting a bit egotistical just because you have a card and others are not able to get one.
Try and be a bit more sympathetic ? Just a suggestion.

I think things have changed a fair bit since you bought one.

Ignoring Nvidia's website, when cards go live on the actual retailer's website they seem to just remove the buy button periodically. Whether that's because cards are in baskets or it's a phased released I'm not sure but in most instances, it's been 10 minutes or more before the buy button is replaced with an out of stock message.

I've got to the checkout with various cards on 6 different occasions between late Jan and early April and every time it's been a result of getting a twitter alert, jumping on the page for one and refreshing until an "add to basket" button appears.

Annoyingly, I failed on four occasions because of either the one per customer limit or card auth issues but when I finally got my 3080 in April, I was 3 or 4 minutes late clicking the notification and still got one.

I did none of the things you suggest are needed, either. Although I have an account, I ended up checking out as a guest on both occasions.

 

[hudson86]

When you got yours...was it still nvidia handling it?

All I know is that since the competitor has taken over handling, its been relatively easy to get an FE card. And as I say, they are NOT sold out in seconds.
The last 4-5 drops I have managed to help friends get close. And been able to add cards to basket again myself. (Didnt checkout....as I already bought one so would get declined.)

Im trying to dispel the myth of the nano-seconds of FE stock. So much misinformation posted by people that are just parroting the meme "cards gone in 1ns" without having put any real effort in to getting one.

Disagree, was trying for months to get a 3080 , sat at the desktop for multiple drops , all ready to go. 3090s got to the payment screen multiple times, but 3080s, no chance.

 

[stooeh]

My 1080 FE ran pretty cool, think it was golden chip.

Benches and games ran 2100mhz Core (few dips now and then).

Lol nice - mine (1080ti) was only stable to about 2050 even under water so I just ran it at 2000 24/7

Edit: it runs at 1886 on stock cooler and settings!

 

[JohnG7]

Above was Air and fan 100% for benches, not as high for games, issue was hitting the Power Limit even more so on the Titan Xp which I also managed to get 2100mhz Core on after Liquid metal on Core (was not much hotter) so temps came down (more efficient) so Power Limit harder to hit.

 

[MooMoo444]

PC gaming is dying with these prices. It's crazy.

 

[Trig]

3080Ti FE at £1049, think that's a bit rich, I can see where they are positioning it vs the 3090 cost-wise, but does its performance vs the 3080 and 3090 make that cost reasonable..
I'm not sure I'd be happy dropping that much on a GPU :/

 

[mikehhhhhhh]

3080Ti FE at £1049, think that's a bit rich, I can see where they are positioning it vs the 3090 cost-wise, but does its performance vs the 3080 and 3090 make that cost reasonable..
I'm not sure I'd be happy dropping that much on a GPU :/

If, as the specs suggest, it performs pretty much as a 3090 just with less vram for £350 less, then surely it must be a decent buy given that the 3090 has had no issues selling.

My main concern would be cooling, hopefully, less vram means less cooling required.

 

[robaylesbury]

At this point, Nvidia have simply become the anal glands of the tech industry.