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** OcUK HAS 21 CUSTOM GTX 1080 MODELS READY FOR PRE-ORDER !! **

PESolution said:
Ben, did the decommit stock come from the rainforest and their supplier not agreeing pricing? :(
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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.
 
Gibbo said:
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.
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Am I right in thinking the Gaming Strix will have been tested and found not to reach the speed of the OC version, whereas the non OC version has not been tested at all? So in theory would the non OC, non Gaming Strix with stock speed have better chance at reaching the speed of OC variant, whereas the Gaming Strix would likely not reach stable higher speeds?
 
sewerprat said:
Am I right in thinking the Gaming Strix will have been tested and found not to reach the speed of the OC version, whereas the non OC version has not been tested at all? So in theory would the non OC, non Gaming Strix with stock speed have better chance at reaching the speed of OC variant, whereas the Gaming Strix would likely not reach stable higher speeds?
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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. :)
 
PESolution said:
Indeed it's looking that way :(
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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!
 
Gibbo said:
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.
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That doesn't bode well for the gigabyte xtreme cards then as they have the same boost clocks as the oc strix and are binned gpu's, already seen one person on here with one that was unstable with the oc mode enabled =/
 
Gerard said:
That doesn't bode well for the gigabyte xtreme cards then as they have the same boost clocks as the oc strix and are binned gpu's, already seen one person on here with one that was unstable with the oc mode enabled =/
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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.
 
Gibbo, do you know if Inno3D X3 production is affected in any way, like other companies are being?..and if so do those who are awaiting pre orders have any option open to them to a fair switch to another card?. I have been told some are coming in but i never hear of them getting a mention on the forum. Thanks
 
gabsmabs said:
Gibbo, do you know if Inno3D X3 production is affected in any way, like other companies are being?..and if so do those who are awaiting pre orders have any option open to them to a fair switch to another card?. I have been told some are coming in but i never hear of them getting a mention on the forum. Thanks
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10 units 1080 X3 just left HK, due next week. :)
 
I'll never make the mistake of ordering an Asus card again, this is obscene.

Are there any other options for Strix OC customers to switch to?
 
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Gibbo said:
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.
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I think the updates you providing are good for those waiting, seems a big difference between evga been able to provide stock and asus.
 
Gibbo said:
10 units 1080 X3 just left HK, due next week. :)
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Thanks for the quick reply mate, you do a great job I know it's not your fault but that's a rubbish amount coming in. I'm not in the top 10 so that means another wait. I can't justify switching to an X4 for what would cost me £90 though..couldn't you split the difference?
 
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