retep88
My 3090 showed up yesterday!  Is it the card I wanted? no, but it's the card I could buy.  Is it going to get chocked out by my 6700K? Yes, yes it does.  Will it be pushing my 850 watt power supply? probably, but with the 6700K, there isn't much point in over clocking the thing.
 
The image is rotated so the front of the computer is the bottom of the picture, but this why I wanted a hybrid card.  There is barely any space between the GPU and the PSU. Also had to use the noctua slim fans because of the ram, but they have done a decent job of keeping the GPU in the 50C range under full load.  Again, no plans on overclocking since my CPU wouldn't be able to keep up.  What's missing is a additional exhaust fan in the back of the case that I have just barely spinning, and you can just barely see the third 120 intake at the bottom.  The radiator at the front has the pump in the rad, so the tubes up are fine.  

Congrats. I also didn't actually want a 3090, but it was what I found in stock as I didn't want to purchase from a scalper, so that's what I ended up getting as well. Nice job setting it up, and you don't need an exhaust fan. That would be useful if you had any air cooled components, but as you have two AIOs, an exhaust fan would be useless. I get that the 3090 has air cooled VRMs, but as you aren't going to be overclocking, it's barely going to get hot enough to make an exhaust fan do anything. So yeah, your setup is fine as is. Enjoy!

I am waiting on the 3888s too.
10G-P5-3888-KR 12/11/2020 10:31:20 AM PT
Wondering if it'll ever happen...

Smeeg699
Thankfully I'm not nearly as far out as you are at only 9:12:17, but I'm doubtful that I'll manage to get an email before the April price hike...

It is going to be close, but I wouldn't be ready to give up the ghost just yet.  But, darn, the XC3s need to start dropping again.  Best of luck!

when was the last time a 3888 done like this? dose anyone knows?

Smeeg699

CSM1O1
when was the last time a 3888 done like this? dose anyone knows?

Do you mean that last time a 3888 was sent out? I think it was the week before the week or Christmas... They haven't dropped any since then.

Correct...December 22.  It moved a grand total of four seconds that day.  
 
Here is the current state of the Hybrids as of tonight...
 
As of 6:20 pm PT Thursday evening, February 11, this is the status of the North American queues (bolded font represents movement from the morning of Thursday, February 11; italicized parentheticals calculate the length of movement from the prior report):
 
Card                                  SKU                        Auto-Notify Timestamp / (Change from Previous Summary)
 
Hybrid
3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid       3988                       12/10/2020 09:38:28         
3090 XC3 Ultra Hybrid         3978                       12/08/2020 14:19:07     
3080 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid       3898                       12/16/2020 09:04:29      (00:00:02)       
3080 XC3 Ultra Hybrid         3888                       12/10/2020 09:08:56    
 
Hydro Copper (Delayed)
3090 FTW 3 Ultra HC           3989                       11/13/2020 00:00:00
3090 XC3 Ultra HC              3979                       11/13/2020 00:00:00
3080 FTW3 Ultra HC            3899                       11/13/2020 00:00:00
3080 XC3 Ultra HC              3889                       11/13/2020 00:00:00
 
Sorry I don't have better news. Best of luck on your hunt!

Smeeg699

enewt

Smeeg699
Thankfully I'm not nearly as far out as you are at only 9:12:17, but I'm doubtful that I'll manage to get an email before the April price hike...

It is going to be close, but I wouldn't be ready to give up the ghost just yet.  But, darn, the XC3s need to start dropping again.  Best of luck!

Funneling too many GA102 cores to the FTW3s, I guess. Better profit margin, or something maybe...

This is complete speculation... but if I was EVGA, I would be taking my 3080 chips and quality control them.  The ones that do well go to the FTW3's, the ones that don't; well they go to the XC3 cards.  My guess is that they only spin up the XC3 assembly line when they have enough to make it worth doing?  Then you add a niche cooler to a 'leftovers' line and you end up with almost 2 month of no cards.  It doesn't make it any less frustrating and they can't really share any useful information with use either.  Not without also telling Asus/gigabyte/msi all their trade secrets.  I really wanted the 3888, but I have given up on it.  

Hoje0308
Are we anticipating any movement on the Hybrids this week?

We don’t know about Thursday or Friday, but none are dropping today.

enewt

Hoje0308
Are we anticipating any movement on the Hybrids this week?

We don’t know about Thursday or Friday, but none are dropping today.

Okay, appreciate the quick reply. Just need 28 seconds on 3898 and I'm getting antsy. It's almost worse now that I have hope, haha!

The FTW3 3080 is seeing huge movement, just hoping the hybrid can move a couple of minutes 😭

skydread
The FTW3 3080 is seeing huge movement, just hoping the hybrid can move a couple of minutes 😭

The two cards are in very different places...the air-cooled card is several days after its launch day (when there was a lot of registrations or "congestion") and the hybrid is still in the midst of its launch day congestion....

Should I even bother changing my ftw3 ultra to show up as a hybrid now that im using the aio?

Yeah, I'm 9/21 at like 03:20 for the FTW3. If it comes up before the XC3 hybrid (looking like that's possible given over a month with no XC3 cards AT ALL having dropped), I might consider getting the aircooled FTW3, then possibly converting it to hybrid later.

Hoping this bad week for 3898 is followed by a banger, just like the last no-movement week was. 

Anyone know if any of the 3090 FTW3 Gaming ever went out? Model # 24G-P5-3985-KR I’m 10/5/2020 8:39:58 PM PT. 

Hoje0308

SLV335I
Anyone know if any of the 3090 FTW3 Gaming ever went out? Model # 24G-P5-3985-KR I’m 10/5/2020 8:39:58 PM PT. 

Easy to track progress here:

https://docs.google.com/d...AbcxMorvRvEPaPh48/edit

Oh wow they’re still on 9/24. Long way to go for me.  Thanks for the link.