OcUK GUIDE TO ORDERING YOUR AMD 9070 GRAPHICS CARD TODAY AT 14:00

[SteveBA]

Also, I know at the start of this the advice for launch day was not to use Amazon pay. But it trying to pay on the site was impossible as the payment page wouldn't load, whereas I could get onto Amazon pay - even if it did take 3 attempts.

 

[chrcoluk]

Amazon pay should be better yeah, I have never had a security hold up with amazon pay and the third party server will also be offloading some requests.

 

[t2na]

Yeah, had the same situation with PayPal. At the initial release I went the suggested route of using a bank card, got the notification on my banking app to approve - and then the entire site froze up.

When the re-stock happened later, I thought sod it I'll use PayPal (but still paying with the same bank card/account) and it actually went through a lot quicker without any issues.

 

[Taff072]

My Red Devil order is still on Confirmed from 1638hrs on Thursday. Sent a ticket in 2 days ago, no reply, may take up to 10 days. I thought I would call this morning but no, the phones are turned off!

How are we supposed to find out what's going on with our orders? At this point I don't know if I have a card coming at some undefined point in the future or if Overclockers are just looking after my £720 for me.

 

[Murphy]

It's a total mess. Such a total mess. Wake me up when I can just visit a website and buy a product at a reasonable price without a bunfight.

Honestly i suspect this is the new normal. The fact is the cost of wafers started to see exponential growth as node sizes shrunk...

(Source)

It's simply not cost effective to produce 300-400 mm² dies only to sell them for six or seven hundred quid, not when you can sell a similar overall area of silicon for more than twice that amount.

 

[mnc fear]

My Red Devil order is still on Confirmed from 1638hrs on Thursday. Sent a ticket in 2 days ago, no reply, may take up to 10 days. I thought I would call this morning but no, the phones are turned off!

How are we supposed to find out what's going on with our orders? At this point I don't know if I have a card coming at some undefined point in the future or if Overclockers are just looking after my £720 for me.

I am in the same boat as you - looks like there was no logic to their ordering system at all & people who ordered the following day have them in hand

Be nice if they would actually let people know when they are being sent out

 

[Taff072]

I am in the same boat as you - looks like there was no logic to their ordering system at all & people who ordered the following day have them in hand

Be nice if they would actually let people know when they are being sent out

Yeah, very frustrating

 

[fastboy]

hopefully you guys get your cards soon and even more hopefully we get some more MSRP cards

 

[ChosenName]

It's simply not cost effective to produce 300-400 mm² dies only to sell them for six or seven hundred quid, not when you can sell a similar overall area of silicon for more than twice that amount.

Indeed. the Zen 5 CCD is 70.6mm² - so four or more could be produced from the same wafer space as one GPU die. Plus the fact that smaller dies tend to have higher zero defect yields (likely why AMD has adopted the CCD / IOD approach).

 

[Squakingcow]

My Red Devil order is still on Confirmed from 1638hrs on Thursday. Sent a ticket in 2 days ago, no reply, may take up to 10 days. I thought I would call this morning but no, the phones are turned off!

How are we supposed to find out what's going on with our orders? At this point I don't know if I have a card coming at some undefined point in the future or if Overclockers are just looking after my £720 for me.

Just had notificantion my Reaper XT order from 2215 on Thursday has shipped, hopefully you'll hear something soon.

 

[ChosenName]

In related news, my DPD delivery has apparently been in transit from Hub 4 Hinckley to my local depot for over 60 hours - beginning to wonder if it has "gone missing" in DPD's care.

 

[MagicBoy]

Apparently Luke from DPD will be delivering my card around lunchtime. In an EV Van.

 

[Murphy]

Indeed. the Zen 5 CCD is 70.6mm² - so four or more could be produced from the same wafer space as one GPU die. Plus the fact that smaller dies tend to have higher zero defect yields (likely why AMD has adopted the CCD / IOD approach).

It's also why they attempted to go down the chiplet route for GPUs, my hope is they've not totally abandoned that idea and instead learnt valuable lessons for UDNA.

Because if not we'll just have to get used to paying silly money for graphics cards.

 

[Venali]

Not forgetting that AMD has more profitable uses for the limited number of wafers available, especially as GPU die sizes are large so fewer per wafer.

Not my problem. As a consumer, they need to appeal to other consumers, if they can't do that, that's on them, and they can enjoy their shrinking market share.

 

[ChosenName]

Not my problem. As a consumer, they need to appeal to other consumers, if they can't do that, that's on them, and they can enjoy their shrinking market share.

Indeed it's not - however their main competitor also has profitable products other than its dGPUs vying for wafer allocation.

 

[SteveBA]

I'm just frustrated as they have my money, sent me a "thank you for your recent order" newsletter, but haven't even sent me a confirmation email, let alone shipping. And I paid for next day delivery, so I was expecting it to arrive today.

 

[ICDP]

AMD has gained a lot of mind share but the reality is they need to be very ******* careful with this fake MSRP crap. The reality is this is more because Nvidia have pushed people to far and it has finally FINALLY started to resonate with consumers.

So this is more of a win by default for AMD because Nvidia are just beyond giving a crap now. AMD need to realise that even just a tiny whiff of the same anti consumer nonsense will undo almost all the good press they have been having.

Get cards out there at as close to MSRP as possible and they will keep winning mind share. If we are seeing real prices at £700 or so for an XT, then AMD will be deservedly ridiculed.

 

[SteveBA]

@ChosenName @MagicBoy when did you guys get your orders in? Mine was around 4pm.

 

[morguk]

Hey @Gibbo should I expect my card to be dispatched today? I ordered 10:45am on Friday.

Just confused a some have had theirs delivered already even though they ordered after me.

 

[ChosenName]

@ChosenName @MagicBoy when did you guys get your orders in? Mine was around 4pm.

My order went in at c.10:45 on Friday.

Due to the unexpectedly lengthy transit time from Hub4 to local depot I initiated a chat in the DPD app - and they advised me that as the parcel had not been scanned in the last 24 hours that a formal investigation should be raised. I now haz a sad.