Justt be on at launch at 2pm and if you dont get one then hopefully you will be near the top of the queue... just be aware that the website will crash, it may take several attempts to actually get the purchase through... i wish you luck!Yes 5080 is what I’m hoping for. I’m not really sure which model. I do like the look of the FE, but realistically I’ll be happy to get anything at this point. I was lucky enough to score a 9800X3D from OC in the second batch, hoping that luck holds. And I admit that I do feel a little self entitled about it all. I’m lucky to be sitting with a new PC at all, I know plenty of people who wouldn’t be able to prioritise something like that just now. But I’m 53 now, been gaming since 1982. Who knows how many builds I have left in me?!
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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER THREAD!
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I'm hoping, as was the case with the 4090 FE, that if you are willing to refresh the site lots across the first 3 months after launch, then you will be able to get one. But who knows what will happen this time. Wow, gaming since 1982! That's incredible. I feel like i've seen a lot and i've 'only' been gaming since the PS2 era, lol. You have plenty of builds left in you, don't worry!Yes 5080 is what I’m hoping for. I’m not really sure which model. I do like the look of the FE, but realistically I’ll be happy to get anything at this point. I was lucky enough to score a 9800X3D from OC in the second batch, hoping that luck holds. And I admit that I do feel a little self entitled about it all. I’m lucky to be sitting with a new PC at all, I know plenty of people who wouldn’t be able to prioritise something like that just now. But I’m 53 now, been gaming since 1982. Who knows how many builds I have left in me?!
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But it often just goes straight to out of stock, in which can you can't get in the queue. Unless i'm missing something. I did try the 4090 FE at launch but i never even stock the 'buy now' button.
I can't say about the FE, but a lot said there was a leaked link a few minutes before the FE launch so thats why it was out of stock pretty much at 2pm..
All i can say from my experience when purchasing a 3090 AIB and a 4090 AIB is that just get your order in as quickly as you can at 2pm and you should hopefully be okay... i managed to get both on release day and had it delivered by DPD the following day.. i guess i have been fortunate.
All i can say from my experience when purchasing a 3090 AIB and a 4090 AIB is that just get your order in as quickly as you can at 2pm and you should hopefully be okay... i managed to get both on release day and had it delivered by DPD the following day.. i guess i have been fortunate.
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Ah yes, sorry. AIB is fine if you don't mind paying slightly over odds (often the case at launch) and get in asap.
Just wish OCUK let me enter my card details in on my profile. I can understand why they don't, security reasons and all. But I would be trying to do this at work on my slow clunky mobile and probably won't be able to input the details on time before they go out of stock at 14:00:35.
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Put the details in the notes app so you can copy and paste them? May help save you 5 seconds and jump you up 1 space in the inevitable queue.
Post them on here and we can do it for you!
Hint: definitely don’t do this. DM them to me instead.
Edit: hint hint - don’t do that either
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I see you are a Man of Honour, so extremely trustworthy imo. I say we all trust you with our details.Post them on here and we can do it for you!
Hint: definitely don’t do this. DM them to me instead.
Edit: hint hint - don’t do that either
Yeah when you put it like that, do it! Everyone DM me their banks details and I can guarantee that you may or may not get fake frames (maybe).
Fully prepared for a bit of stress
I think the 2pm launch time is just for OC? I dont think that applies to other NVidia resellers, I know a site who had a que system, so you enter the site on a que, then you put your chosen card in basket, this is reserved and you have 10 minutes to make payment or your basket or reservation is put back in the system for someone else to buy, actually this was for the 30 series for when you had mining craze and GPU's were gold dust, that didnt happen with the 40 series, I can remember stockists had 40 series cards all day and at around 4pm all the 40s were sold out but it took a few days to re-appear
Obviously you had scalpers but I dont think scalpers made money from scalping 4090s because they did re-appear within a week and by then there was plenty in stock and from a wide variety of brands, I think everyone early adopter for the 40 series card will have an opportunity to spend their £2300 on a 5090
I think the FE edition will be a sell out unless Nvidia has prepared tens of thousands in stock, why wouldn't they? its money they want
Also the PS5 was so hard to get, took 1 year for some people to get a chance to buy, but the PS5 Pro, everyone had these in stock from day 1, so hopefully 50 series is the same....
Obviously you had scalpers but I dont think scalpers made money from scalping 4090s because they did re-appear within a week and by then there was plenty in stock and from a wide variety of brands, I think everyone early adopter for the 40 series card will have an opportunity to spend their £2300 on a 5090
I think the FE edition will be a sell out unless Nvidia has prepared tens of thousands in stock, why wouldn't they? its money they want
Also the PS5 was so hard to get, took 1 year for some people to get a chance to buy, but the PS5 Pro, everyone had these in stock from day 1, so hopefully 50 series is the same....
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There were rumours of nvidia shipping gpu's out a while ago due to the possible tarrifs being implemented. Not 100% sure how true this is, but if this did happen then hopefully there are a fair few 5090's stockpiled. Not sure if this just applied to the FE aswell, but im assuming AIB's would have been scared by it too and sent some more out just incase? i mean moneys money lol.
Crazy about the ps5, i know some people who just got their hands on one in the last few months, im hoping we dont see this with the 50 series, never gotten a brand new card and will hopefully get the chance to nab one on the 30th!
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NVIDIA mandates release times for all board partners and retailers. Depending on region and time zones. If they didn’t stock would sell out even faster and unfairly to the botters (scalpers) and crypto users although nvidia pulled a shady and sold direct to the crypto miners in bulk directly. Creating a 3xxx series worldwide shortage. There is also the minerals needed to make the gpu tripled in price at that time.
My best advice would be to have several sites open and the card you want. The OcUK site is well known for slowing to a crawl for a major release of cpu and gpubreleased due to the extremely high traffic volume. As much as I want to keep my loyalty to OCUK after the 4 series launch. Where the site lagged so much until it went kaput . I didn’t know if I ordered one or 3 cards due to how badly it lagged. Unfortunately on release day my order didn’t even go through due Amazon pay login and payment being on the fritz. Decide what card you want and what your budget limit is before hand. Have a back up card choice just in case the one you want is in low supply and in high demand.
Avoid finance and PayPal if you want it be at the top of the queue and in the first batch. If you are not bothered then go right ahead. But this could drop you to the second batch. This mean you could be waiting 1 day, 1 week, 1 month who knows until the day.
Turn off your phone. Chuck the wife and kids out. Put barbed wire and watchtowers outside your house prefably with trained armed personnel and wait for the 2 pm kick off. I am taking the day off work to get my order in. But that still doesn’t mean I will get one guaranteed.
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Yup - already authorised debit/credit card and having everything pre-logged in is the best chances of getting an order through on launch. Unfortunately any kind of financial plan will almost certainly cause a delay and likely lose you the slot.