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

Gibbo said:
Those requiring updates should be posting in CS section, calling sales, live chat etc. and they can give you updates.

The whole 1080 series has just being a mess, still two months on and demand is above supply.
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Whats the point, you are only given a date picked at random that comes and goes with no delivery, until the next time you phone up or web note the same query and the run around continues on its cycle.
 
fireman999 said:
Whats the point, you are only given a date picked at random that comes and goes with no delivery, until the next time you phone up or web note the same query and the run around continues on its cycle.
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I am one man unfortunately I cannot do everything.

The guys use the dates that the purchase orders have on them which were dates that manufacturers originally adviced.

I think the issue is an ETA is that, the word of most importance here is "estimated" some are hit and some are grossly missed by weeks at times.
 
maonayze said:
Hmmmmmmm I think all the people on here that keep spouting "And those people saying that Nvidia were 6 months behind AMD were clearly wrong" may want to have a re-think about all this.

To me it is obvious that Nvidia wanted to get one up on AMD and beat them to the release of new cards, so they knowingly had the launch on May 27th to guzump AMD, knowing full well that all their avid followers would either buy the overpriced Founders Edition or jump on the pre-order bandwagon for AIBs and hand over their hard earned cash for cards that were no where close to full production rates.
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Beat AMD to what though, the 480? Nvidia could have released the 1080 2 months from now and still AMD would have nothing to compete. Don't see what you are getting at.

This whole founders edition lark is what's probably mucked up this release.
 
maonayze said:
Hmmmmmmm I think all the people on here that keep spouting "And those people saying that Nvidia were 6 months behind AMD were clearly wrong" may want to have a re-think about all this.
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oizo76 said:
ETD 29-JULY QTY
GTX 1080 GAMING X 8G 50
GTX 1080 AERO 8G OC 60
GTX 1080 ARMOR 8G OC 20
GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X 32
GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G 140
GTX 1070 ARMOR 8G OC 40
GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G 100
GTX 1060 ARMOR 6G OC 10
RX 480 20
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Nope, don't need to have a re-think :p
 
B1gbeard said:
Beat AMD to what though, the 480? Nvidia could have released the 1080 2 months from now and still AMD would have nothing to compete. Don't see what you are getting at.

This whole founders edition lark is what's probably mucked up this release.
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I agree with the founders edition comment wholeheartedly. Nvidia have never done it before and I hope never do it again.

I was getting at the fact that Nvidia wanted to beat AMD at launching cards on a brand new node as a bit of marketing one upmanship. It all sells cards and getting a paper launch in before the opposition, when you are expected to be 6 months behind was a big plus point......the only thing is....they weren't really ready to supply those cards in abundance, but the launch gave the impression that they were. So a race to the new node, not necessarily for direct competition between cards in the same tier.

We have all known for many months which way AMD were going to be producing their cards in this Generation, so no surprise that there is no direct competition for the 1070/1080 yet....So don't see what you are getting at either.

AMD said that their mid/low end would be out in summer and their higher end would be Q1 2017 and so far they have been spot on......other dates have been pure rumour and speculation by people outside of AMD/RTG.
:)
 
maonayze said:
I agree with the founders edition comment wholeheartedly. Nvidia have never done it before and I hope never do it again.

I was getting at the fact that Nvidia wanted to beat AMD at launching cards on a brand new node as a bit of marketing one upmanship. It all sells cards and getting a paper launch in before the opposition, when you are expected to be 6 months behind was a big plus point......the only thing is....they weren't really ready to supply those cards in abundance, but the launch gave the impression that they were. So a race to the new node, not necessarily for direct competition between cards in the same tier.

We have all known for many months which way AMD were going to be producing their cards in this Generation, so no surprise that there is no direct competition for the 1070/1080 yet....So don't see what you are getting at either.

AMD said that their mid/low end would be out in summer and their higher end would be Q1 2017 and so far they have been spot on......other dates have been pure rumour and speculation by people outside of AMD/RTG.
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If only Nvidia knew that all AMD is capable of at the moment is matching the almost two year old GTX 970 in performance per watt.
 
maonayze said:
I was getting at the fact that Nvidia wanted to beat AMD at launching cards on a brand new node as a bit of marketing one upmanship. It all sells cards and getting a paper launch in before the opposition, when you are expected to be 6 months behind was a big plus point......the only thing is....they weren't really ready to supply those cards in abundance, but the launch gave the impression that they were. So a race to the new node, not necessarily for direct competition between cards in the same tier.
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It was pretty easy to get a reference or certain models a week or two after launch of the 1080 and 1070. The RX480 launch has been no different in that respect. Lots of reference models sold at launch with AIB on preorder and slowly trickling in weeks after launch.

Just because every specific custom model wasn't in stock in abundance doesn't mean they weren't ready to launch.

Both AMD and Nvidia seem to have been victims of their own success and seemingly cant supply their AIB's with enough chips in a timely manner, or simply some AIB's are dragging their heels somewhat.
 
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if anyone is looking to switch to the evga ftw heres some info regarding the performance.
i Played witcher 3 at super max settings with max hair works with fan at 60%, I had temps of 53 and at 60 fps with a boost clock of 2050 out of the box (im assuming the fps was limited to 60 as i hit 61 and that was it)

i do feel for you guys still waiting on your cards and i hope whoever is at fault pulls there fingers out of there ass and sorts this bs out.
 
Gibbo said:
OK seen it, I shall ask KFA2 for an update in the morning.

Last update from KFA2 was 20 units, those arrived and shipped out on 27th of May, yes it has being that long. The last email simply states delayed due to lack of GPU supply from NVIDIA.

I shall speak with my contact tomorrow morning, he is asleep now.
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Thanks Gibbo, any news would be good, even if it's another couple of weeks at least we can plan around that. For me it's when to book in some annual leave to finish Doom :D started on a 980ti, sold that assuming a normal pre-order period, now have a 960 to see me through & it's really depressing. Looking forward to over 3 times the fps with my 1080 if KFA2 ever get some shipped!
 
Guys what are you using to overclock your cards? It's my first time with EVGA cards and I find their precision software unpredictable. You cannot specify the required speed instead you are specifying the GPU boost clock but it is not calculated on top of the default settings it is calculated on top of the built in boost clock. However the cart actually boosts higher than the specified boost clock and this value varies so each time I get a different result. So pin pointing a stable resolution becomes impossible task. Or is there something I'm missing here?
 
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