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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**

just reading the Discord news and saying the UK FE was in stock for a total of 1 minute , will be interesting to see how many were dispatched when it arrives tomorrow
 
I can see a lot of people not checking as much since it's been a few weeks and fomo probably died a bit. All of the drama over drivers, connectors, and so on might have helped it stay longer too.
 
Rawr said:
I can see a lot of people not checking as much since it's been a few weeks and fomo probably died a bit. All of the drama over drivers, connectors, and so on might have helped it stay longer too.
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It sold out 10x faster than launch day :) as they trickled them out that day

but hopefully more drops for people that need one.
 
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some movement on the Astral Pre order que and now sitting at 116 which I assume is people getting hold of the FE and cancelling their orders , I will wait till tomorrow when the FE arrives before cancelling my Astral pre order which I'm pretty certain I'm going to do now as otherwise just chucking £760 away ( difference between FE & Astral ) i am water cooling the card anyway and the only thing i would like from the Astral is that power monitoring feature but will do without and save the cash tbh.
 
Nitefly said:
Still 41 in the Suprim queue here… no ETA.

Will bail if other models start coming in stock sooner / prices go down etc.
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Would expect the queues to start moving in the next couple of weeks… at least that’s what I’m hoping for anyway. You’d hope that they get more more than 41 units in the first proper shipment after Chinese new year ends… but we’ll have to wait and see. I’m at position 16 for mine but Aorus Master.

I’d be really surprised if any 5090 model is available for general sale anytime soon…
 
I clicked on the Add to Basket button as soon as I got the alert.. still couldn't buy one even though a couple people got it by randomly checking the website. How is that possible?

I guess back to wait until the 20th or even March..
 
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nVidiaxAMD said:
I clicked on the Add to Basket button as soon as I got the alert.. still couldn't buy one even though a couple people got it by randomly checking the website. How is that possible?

I guess back to wait until the 20th or even March..
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Depends how you're getting the link. Some people are getting it direct from the API which is quicker than waiting for the website to update. Waiting for the website(or any alert using the website) means you're relying on luck, since you can get cached in a way you won't see it quick enough.
 
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Rawr said:
Depends how you're getting the link. Some people are getting it direct from the API which is quicker than waiting for the website to update. Waiting for the website means you're relying on luck, since you can get cached in a way you won't see it quick enough.
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Ah, makes sense. So we should click right from the API link to improve the odds.

Still, how did those two guys just manage to get it by randomly checking the website?
 
nVidiaxAMD said:
Ah, makes sense. So we should click right from the API link to improve the odds.

Still, how did those two guys just manage to get it by randomly checking the website?
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As I said, it's luck. If they managed to refresh right at the time the API updated, and they weren't getting cached or sent to a different website server that hadn't been updated then it's still possible to get it manually. It's just more of a dice roll.
 
nVidiaxAMD said:
Ah, makes sense. So we should click right from the API link to improve the odds.

Still, how did those two guys just manage to get it by randomly checking the website?
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The API is only checking every 30 seconds. Maybe they got lucky with the timing and managed to get in before it?
 
p3eps said:
The API is only checking every 30 seconds. Maybe they got lucky with the timing and managed to get in before it?
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Yeah that's gotta be it.

I'm tempted to build my own bot that adds the card to basket and calls my phone number at this point, will do this over the weekend...
 
nVidiaxAMD said:
Yeah that's gotta be it.

I'm tempted to build my own bot that adds the card to basket and calls my phone number at this point, will do this over the weekend...
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Apparently nVidia give you 15 mins to checkout once it's in your basket - so plenty of time to get through the checkout etc
 
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