patrick68794
Has anyone had any luck with regular EVGA support getting them a missed queue position? I got a notification for the 3080 FTW3 on Friday but I didn't get the email itself until nearly 12 hours after it was sent.

I emailed ordernotify@evga.com and all they told me was to try emailing them again when the GPU was back in stock in a week or two...

I don't have Twitter to reach out directly to Jacob about this either. Is there a way to tag users on the forums?

That's an unusual response.  Did you email them or reply to the invite to purchase email you received?  They may not have stock on hand, but I would reply to the invite to purchase email you received and in the reply clearly express your intent to purchase the card.  Then, after an hour or two, I would call the customer service number and check in with them (+1.888.881.EVGA (3842); 9 am to 6 pm PT, weekdays).  Best of luck!

coldrain85
After upgrading from a EVGA 980SC and installing the 3080 FTW Hybrid that I finally got last week, I can't lie..... The frame rates are a little underwhelming. I was expecting a little more for ≈ $970. Oh well, maybe I will cave and pay another $60 for the latest Resident Evil game so I can at least check out the RT capabilities of this card while I wait for gaming applications to catch up with latest generation GPU's. I also had to buy a new 850W PSU because the old card has dual 6-pins and the 3080 requires three 8-pins. Any PSU under 850W is probably not going to cut it, even if it's < 2 years old like the 750W that I just pulled out of my rig.
 
Boy, am I glad that I didn't go for the 3060/3070. That would not have felt like much of an upgrade over the 980. 
 

That is the first time I've heard this anywhere...... Your 980 must have been a boss.

coldrain85
After upgrading from a EVGA 980SC and installing the 3080 FTW Hybrid that I finally got last week, I can't lie..... The frame rates are a little underwhelming. I was expecting a little more for ≈ $970. Oh well, maybe I will cave and pay another $60 for the latest Resident Evil game so I can at least check out the RT capabilities of this card while I wait for gaming applications to catch up with latest generation GPU's. I also had to buy a new 850W PSU because the old card has dual 6-pins and the 3080 requires three 8-pins. Any PSU under 850W is probably not going to cut it, even if it's < 2 years old like the 750W that I just pulled out of my rig.
 
Boy, am I glad that I didn't go for the 3060/3070. That would not have felt like much of an upgrade over the 980. 
 

100% the same feeling here. I went from a 1080 SC to a 3080 Founders. I am a big proponent on playing all games on max settings. For an upgrade that was rated at over 100% increase in power/capabilities, I am maybe getting just 25% more frames at best.


 

patrick68794
Has anyone had any luck with regular EVGA support getting them a missed queue position? I got a notification for the 3080 FTW3 on Friday but I didn't get the email itself until nearly 12 hours after it was sent.

I emailed ordernotify@evga.com and all they told me was to try emailing them again when the GPU was back in stock in a week or two...

I don't have Twitter to reach out directly to Jacob about this either. Is there a way to tag users on the forums?

hol' up. so, i guess then we can expect some 3897's in a "week or two"? Would be nice if @Jacob or @Evga themselves were more open about that but okay.....

enewt
That's an unusual response.  Did you email them or reply to the invite to purchase email you received?  They may not have stock on hand, but I would reply to the invite to purchase email you received and in the reply clearly express your intent to purchase the card.  Then, after an hour or two, I would call the customer service number and check in with them (+1.888.881.EVGA (3842); 9 am to 6 pm PT, weekdays).  Best of luck!

I replied to the email address provided in the message on the EVGA site saying my purchase notification had expired after clicking the link on the notification email. I'll try replying directly to the notification email itself.

Thanks!

__Grig__
hol' up. so, i guess then we can expect some 3897's in a "week or two"? Would be nice if @Jacob or @Evga themselves were more open about that but okay.....

yeah I'm not really sure what was up with the response I got. I don't know if I'd read anything into it though, almost seemed like the person didn't actually know or missed that my email was about a 30 series product

10G-P5-3897-KR9/22/2020 10:45:31 PM PTNo 
still no move for my card :( Gosh this waiting gaming is killing me!

mrwhitewalker

coldrain85
After upgrading from a EVGA 980SC and installing the 3080 FTW Hybrid that I finally got last week, I can't lie..... The frame rates are a little underwhelming. I was expecting a little more for ≈ $970. Oh well, maybe I will cave and pay another $60 for the latest Resident Evil game so I can at least check out the RT capabilities of this card while I wait for gaming applications to catch up with latest generation GPU's. I also had to buy a new 850W PSU because the old card has dual 6-pins and the 3080 requires three 8-pins. Any PSU under 850W is probably not going to cut it, even if it's < 2 years old like the 750W that I just pulled out of my rig.
 
Boy, am I glad that I didn't go for the 3060/3070. That would not have felt like much of an upgrade over the 980. 

100% the same feeling here. I went from a 1080 SC to a 3080 Founders. I am a big proponent on playing all games on max settings. For an upgrade that was rated at over 100% increase in power/capabilities, I am maybe getting just 25% more frames at best.

 
I'm curious what CPU and memory you two are using. I know my brother had a 3400G CPU and when he upgraded from a 1660 Super to a 3070 he was only seeing a little bit of FPS improvement. He had a MASSIVE CPU bottleneck. On top of it not allowing x16 lanes of PCI-e, it was also just having a big overhead issue where the CPU was just not able to feed the GPU enough information. Things that improved his performance until he upgraded to a 5800X (which really unlocked his 3070): making sure XMP profile was on for his memory, making sure BIOS had his PCIe slot set up as PCI-e gen 3 (this can be 4 depending on CPU/motherboard), setting the power usage to "maximum performance" in the Nvidia driver utility (check the 30-series troubleshooting page for more info on some of these), but really it boiled down to the 3400G just not having enough power to unleash the RTX 3070. He put in a 5800X and now his frames are dramatically higher than before. If you look at your CPU and GPU utilization while you're gaming and your GPU isn't at 99-100%...you have something else going on.

Nike_7688

mrwhitewalker

coldrain85
After upgrading from a EVGA 980SC and installing the 3080 FTW Hybrid that I finally got last week, I can't lie..... The frame rates are a little underwhelming. I was expecting a little more for ≈ $970. Oh well, maybe I will cave and pay another $60 for the latest Resident Evil game so I can at least check out the RT capabilities of this card while I wait for gaming applications to catch up with latest generation GPU's. I also had to buy a new 850W PSU because the old card has dual 6-pins and the 3080 requires three 8-pins. Any PSU under 850W is probably not going to cut it, even if it's < 2 years old like the 750W that I just pulled out of my rig.
 
Boy, am I glad that I didn't go for the 3060/3070. That would not have felt like much of an upgrade over the 980. 

100% the same feeling here. I went from a 1080 SC to a 3080 Founders. I am a big proponent on playing all games on max settings. For an upgrade that was rated at over 100% increase in power/capabilities, I am maybe getting just 25% more frames at best.

 
I'm curious what CPU and memory you two are using. I know my brother had a 3400G CPU and when he upgraded from a 1660 Super to a 3070 he was only seeing a little bit of FPS improvement. He had a MASSIVE CPU bottleneck. On top of it not allowing x16 lanes of PCI-e, it was also just having a big overhead issue where the CPU was just not able to feed the GPU enough information. Things that improved his performance until he upgraded to a 5800X (which really unlocked his 3070): making sure XMP profile was on for his memory, making sure BIOS had his PCIe slot set up as PCI-e gen 3 (this can be 4 depending on CPU/motherboard), setting the power usage to "maximum performance" in the Nvidia driver utility (check the 30-series troubleshooting page for more info on some of these), but really it boiled down to the 3400G just not having enough power to unleash the RTX 3070. He put in a 5800X and now his frames are dramatically higher than before. If you look at your CPU and GPU utilization while you're gaming and your GPU isn't at 99-100%...you have something else going on.

I am on an 8700K on a z370 EVGA FTW board. Nothing overclocked. 16GB of 3200 Corsair vengeance RAM. 750W PSU. XMP turned on. Two NVMe drives, most games on a Samsung 970 Pro.
 
I play on Max settings all games at 1440p. Not sure about the PCI-e thing since I am not familiar with that stuff.
 
I have used Afterburner with Rivatuner to see the stats while running and nothing is maxed out. 

tshalev

coldrain85
After upgrading from a EVGA 980SC and installing the 3080 FTW Hybrid that I finally got last week, I can't lie..... The frame rates are a little underwhelming. I was expecting a little more for ≈ $970. Oh well, maybe I will cave and pay another $60 for the latest Resident Evil game so I can at least check out the RT capabilities of this card while I wait for gaming applications to catch up with latest generation GPU's. I also had to buy a new 850W PSU because the old card has dual 6-pins and the 3080 requires three 8-pins. Any PSU under 850W is probably not going to cut it, even if it's < 2 years old like the 750W that I just pulled out of my rig.
 
Boy, am I glad that I didn't go for the 3060/3070. That would not have felt like much of an upgrade over the 980. 
 

That's... interesting. What games are you playing, what resolutions? What framerates are you targeting? Even at 1080p you should be seeing at least double the performance; at 4k, I would expect to see you go from "completely unplayable" in modern games to over 60 fps... Perhaps there is another bottleneck in the system?

Nope. No other bottlenecks. Everything in this rig is < 2 years old. Everything that really matters to this discussion is about a year old, or less. I ran the benchmark with Assassins Creed- Odyssey on ultra settings and was seeing about 48 fps on average. Good, not great. I will keep at it and see if I can optimize it better.
 
Part of it could be my own expectations as well. Let's face it, with the 3080's we are paying nearly 1k in some cases for a card that should have been priced closer to $600 imo. It's an overpriced card, just like pretty much everything else right now due to tariffs and horrific inflation, the likes of which we have not seen since the early 1980's. And it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, so I guess I should be thankful that I got the card for under 1k. I won't be surprised at all if prices increase again before year's end.

Anybody's order from Friday, the 11th shipped out yet?

My 3888 ordered early Friday, still hasn't left the warehouse according to UPS.

EVGA: OH! sorry the que hasn't moved up a lot in a while since September 2020
Also EVGA: Welcoming all Elite Member to buy the graphics cards tomorrow.  Yes you heard it right elite members, we are saying screw you all the people in the que since the launch of 30 series. Here is your chance to get the cards.
 
This is just so sad.

coldrain85

tshalev

coldrain85
After upgrading from a EVGA 980SC and installing the 3080 FTW Hybrid that I finally got last week, I can't lie..... The frame rates are a little underwhelming. I was expecting a little more for ≈ $970. Oh well, maybe I will cave and pay another $60 for the latest Resident Evil game so I can at least check out the RT capabilities of this card while I wait for gaming applications to catch up with latest generation GPU's. I also had to buy a new 850W PSU because the old card has dual 6-pins and the 3080 requires three 8-pins. Any PSU under 850W is probably not going to cut it, even if it's < 2 years old like the 750W that I just pulled out of my rig.
 
Boy, am I glad that I didn't go for the 3060/3070. That would not have felt like much of an upgrade over the 980. 
 

That's... interesting. What games are you playing, what resolutions? What framerates are you targeting? Even at 1080p you should be seeing at least double the performance; at 4k, I would expect to see you go from "completely unplayable" in modern games to over 60 fps... Perhaps there is another bottleneck in the system?

Nope. No other bottlenecks. Everything in this rig is < 2 years old. Everything that really matters to this discussion is about a year old, or less. I ran the benchmark with Assassins Creed- Odyssey on ultra settings and was seeing about 48 fps on average. Good, not great. I will keep at it and see if I can optimize it better.
 
Part of it could be my own expectations as well. Let's face it, with the 3080's we are paying nearly 1k in some cases for a card that should have been priced closer to $600 imo. It's an overpriced card, just like pretty much everything else right now due to tariffs and horrific inflation, the likes of which we have not seen since the early 1980's. And it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, so I guess I should be thankful that I got the card for under 1k. I won't be surprised at all if prices increase again before year's end.

Wow, that does sound strange though. Most sources have AC Odyssey running at anywhere from 60-90 fps average at 4K, with lows perhaps just under 60 (depending on the system and tester I suppose). The Anvil engine kind of sucks and doesn't particularly favour Nvidia GPUs, so I wouldn't expect high framerate gameplay at 4K. Still, you should definitely be above 60 fps almost all of the time at max settings.  As for the 980, well, that would have been lucky to get about 25 fps at 4K in this scenario... so there is some improvement.
Yes, I agree with you about the prices. Everything is overpriced, especially right now :/.

EnigmicAzn

muzikvillain
Anybody's order from Friday, the 11th shipped out yet?

My 3888 ordered early Friday, still hasn't left the warehouse according to UPS.

Contact EVGA about it

Already did. They said the order pallet is already processed and either UPS didn't pick it up or has scanned it.

Wanted to see if any other Friday order have experienced the same.

RedRed78
How long do I wait?

depends which card you signed up for