OK guys
One thing you have to understand with the EVGA GTX1080 Hybrid is we have never given set up information for this card to anyone. Look at the photo on the Overclockers site, this was taken at our Computex suite in Taiwan back in June of a prototype of the card.
Once a product is roughly 2 weeks away from market we confirm specs and pricing with customers and authorise set up for pre-order.
Of course at launch of GTX1080 it was obvious EVGA would offer a Hybrid card, and we made it known that this would be on the FTW PCB but look around, this card is not available for pre-order anywhere else in Europe. I am about to release this elsewhere this coming week but never before this. Overclockers decided to set this card up knowing they would receive stock eventually but were never instructed to do so by myself.
As always I will let you know when I have a solid ETA date but as we are just setting this card up elsewhere please now expect 2 weeks. We try to give guidance at earlier times but delays can be hit. We will not release a product until it 100% passes quality control and this at EVGA is very stringent.
Any more questions please let me know.
Ben
I definitely think Overclockers have a lot of the blame to take for this, having put the card up for pre-order so early, however, I doubt even they realised that the card would take this long to come out.
I was a little later with my pre-order and made it on the 10th of June. Even that though is over 2 months which is appalling.
I completely understand that this launch has been horrible for everyone, with Nvidia taking a lot of the blame, but when a lot of people have put in £690 or even the ridiculous £800 that overclockers have it at just now, it's shocking. Thankfully I chose to pay using amazon payments so no money has been taken out of my account, but I'm sure there are loads that are a lot of money down, for nothing to show for it 2 months later whilst Overclockers reap the benefits of having the money sat in their account.
I noticed that the hybrid card has been up on pre-order on EVGA's website twice over the last 2 weeks, but again with no indication of dispatch. It was up for around £705 (At the time I checked with the conversion from Euro to Pound) which is a lot cheaper than what Overclockers are trying to get for them.
This isn't against you at all Ben, I understand that you are unfortunately the front line when it comes to this. I just hope that you also understand the frustrations of the people here that have made these pre-orders, whom some (As with GraycorSatoru above) have sold their previous cards ready for this release and have been stuck without a decent Dedicated GPU for quite some time (Myself included, sold 2x980's and have since had to buy a temporary 780Ti to keep me going).
I just really hope that this "2 weeks" is actually just gonna be 2 weeks, although I am regretfully doubtful.