To be fair to EVGA regarding the transparency of availability, they can't tell you what they don't know. I mean, first, EVGA said stock would stabilize in late June. Then it was early July. Then it was mid July. Then late July. Then they went quiet, and here we are almost mid August and supply is FAR from stabilized. It's more beneficial in their eyes to simply not say anything anymore, except to announce when they have 5 cards in stock, than it is to keep saying stock will be stabilizing soon, and it not happening.

Microcenter near me as 1080 Classified in stock. I'm so tempted to just get one rather than wait for the Hybrid. I really love the insanely low temps of my 980 Ti hybrid, it never exceeds 55 degrees. But then when modded BIOS files come out we can add more voltage, in which case the Hybrid will shine. Decisions decisions...

rholdcroft99
Has anyone actually received a GTX 1080 of any model for their Step up?

I don't think anyone has.  I've been waiting for more than 2 months.  Get a BS email sometime around June 20th that I'm being upgraded to a new model which kinda gave me some hope they understood wth was going on with their supply and a step-up would happen in a week or two.  Since then silence...
 
This is the last EVGA card i will buy.  I got suckered, like others, into the step up program under the assumption we could get another card in a reasonable amount of time.  What EVGA has done with the step up is lock in new card buyers and then since they already profited off of them, they send all their new stock, over and over again, to re-sellers.  Once EVGA got our money they don't care anymore.
 
Step up is a horrible service and if i didn't get suckered into it, I would of already had a GTX 1080 weeks ago buying from some other re-seller as they were available.
 
 

Nereus

asphalt
I am sorry EVGA I waited as long as I could to try and get a pair of 1080 Classified's; refreshing the product page daily to see if it will be in stock (even teased myself by checking the webstore at Micro Center...pointless) but, decided to jump ship for a couple of Titan X(P)'s. Should be here tomorrow and will be the first non-EVGA card to go in any of my systems since 2005. Thank you for your excellent tech and customer support but, unfortunately the product availability just could not match.

You would have been in for a long wait for the 1080 Classified at this website - EVGA aren't selling it over the website or anywhere else but at Micro Center, and only over-the-counter there, no online orders whatsoever. That is the ONLY option for the 1080 Classified, unless you want to try to get a used one for $1,000+ on ebay lol.
 
EVGA has clearly needed a good production planner for years... lack of supply to meet demand has consistently been one of EVGA's few faults, and unfortunately it's a pretty big one. Many years ago I worked as a production planner, and screwing up just once like this would have cost me my job. I hate to think how much business EVGA has lost over the years because of this one issue. Happens every time, yet somehow nobody learns from it. Go figure.
 
edit: perhaps EVGA are being held back by supply from NVidia, in which case NVidia is the culprit, but EVGA isn't saying anything against NVidia because.. well, you don't bite the hand that feeds you. Then again, other brands have stock available.. so is it that EVGA are so good they get sold out first? If that's the case, NVidia should be supplying more to EVGA since this happens with every new release. Either that, or EVGA aren't ordering enough from NVidia. Either way, someone somewhere is screwing up consistently, and it would be nice if somebody in a position to do so actually tried to rectify this issue.
 
Maybe I should be thanking EVGA for not allowing me to throw my money at them, lol.
 

Yep was fully aware of this and can not understand why EVGA is doing an exclusive with Micro Center for the 1080 Classified. Making it worse Micro Center not making the product available to purchase online for those of us who are not fortunate enough to have a store in the state. Oh well, in the end I made a crazy purchase but feel it will be an investment for many years to come (or at least till NVidia releases the next big thing )

As much as I love EVGA, I went with another company for the 1080. I was holding out for a classified, but they aren't binned so it's hard to justify the increased price and the wait was just killing me. Hopefully the kingpin card is binned. 

So I found a local store that is carrying the classified 1080, I'm really tempted but this card is 100 bux more than the FTW.  I can't really find any youtubers reviewing this card, most of them reviewed the FTW edition.  Is there really that much of a difference between the two?
 

Overclockers UK currently has 10+ EVGA GTX 1060 SC's in stock.

Newegg currently has the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR in stock.

ConductorJ
Newegg currently has the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR in stock.

Just ordered!

ncixus.com has the FTW in stock 08G-P4-6286-KR