Ben will give an update shortly and all being well it is very good news, just came off the phone to him. But let him tell you guys and his love for the OcUK customers.
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** OcUK HAS 21 CUSTOM GTX 1080 MODELS READY FOR PRE-ORDER !! **
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Ben will give an update shortly and all being well it is very good news, just came off the phone to him. But let him tell you guys and his love for the OcUK customers.
Hi there
Just come off the phone to Asus and I shall make a new thread because they want to see certain things before they commit stock to just one customer in Europe.
Asus 1080 Strix: 98pc arriving today, people can switch to this for same price as they paid for Strix OC.
Asus 1080 Strix Gamer: This one is overclocked, but not quite as much as original Strix OC, Asus can give OcUK Europes entire allocation next week on this (would no doubt arrive a week later), but they will only do this if 200 customers are going to switch from OC to Gamer, again at same price they paid for Strix OC.
Asus 1080 Strix OC: The 33 units are being located and will hopefully be found and with us next week, so for those who are early in the queue, should not change over as you will get an OC by the end of this month all being well. To note so far on Strix OC OcUK has received and shipped out 28 units which was middle of June.
Vote in the thread:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18740608
I shall prioritise forum members switching, we are giving the community first dibs before we mass email.
So yes you'd get one, vote in the thread and post your name and details (details you are happy to post).
EVGA will produce more SC in coming weeks, they switched production too FTW because globally far more FTW has sold, with such large sales and lack of GPU supply they focused on the bigger issue, especially because they shipped more SC initially.
Ben can comment though I feel SC shipments will resume towards end of this month in better volumes.
Ben, did the decommit stock come from the rainforest and their supplier not agreeing pricing?
Unfortunately, maybe, can see the people who pre-ordered with them not getting cards for a long time as now they don't want to take stock and ship orders at a loss.
The feeling I get right now is Asus have stopped testing and are just throwing the GPUs into the regular and the Gamer, as those speeds can be hit, so yes there could be some overclocking gems.
The issue for Asus is the way they pre-test is to strict and their clock speeds for the OC were simply to high, they made a clear error and as such were getting very poor yields and wasting a lot of time.
So for now I feel they have stopped testing because the result right now is Asus are not selling any 1080's, because they have no 1080's pretty much in stock in any good volume of Strix anywhere. So they need to get stock into channels, then they get sales and market share back and at the same time a lot of OC customers will happily switch.
Once they get production and the channel stocked on regular cards I can forsee they will start testing GPU again to try and get some OC's out the door.
For now we have increased the pricing on Gamer and OC to a crazy level to stop any new orders, we want our own customers who already paid to have first dibs and we'd rather limit any new orders on the OC part by pricing it so high no one buys it.
They are on the delivery, just waiting for delivery and tracking says it is due today.
Indeed it's looking that way
I think as well many who placed orders will also know they were onto too good a thing when the price was clearly near £100 below anyone else. Crazy how it took them so long to adjust pricing to be honest, not like Brexit was a low key thing.
Hopefully the forest will do as OcUK and simply honour the orders and ship at a loss. Lets see!
Yeah but in fairness the pre-orders are sub 50, so they can meet those kind of demand levels. It is when sales get too crazy at which point if supply is not so great, we shall just make the price crazy to stop people buying them.
But the difference is EVGA are way way better at communication, Ben keeps me informed and he post on here. That goes a long way even when the news delivered is not so great.
Communication is everything, even when news is bad.
Asus have being shockingly poor with communications and if it was not for one guy in Asus UK HQ we'd be more in the dark than we already are.
Nope, I won't allow that.
All I can offer you is the X4 at £659.99, which is same price as X3 is currently selling for. If you want this, call sales but send them a livechat / webnote before you call with this link. But do be quick only 3 cards left!
Check the Asus POLL thread.
Yes but only to those who are waiting for a Strix OC 1080, the offer is not for people waiting for other brands, just Asus customers.
Well best I can offer is £639.99 inc on the Strix, you'd need to use livechat, link to my response here and they will change your order for you.
Yes is fine, best to send webnote to CS or post in CS linking to my reply here saying its OK.