str0ntium
Haha.  I remember doing this on a Radeon 9500 pro like 20 years ago (for the memory).  That card was a piece of crap!  I also put on a Zalman heatsink for the chip.

Unicornkitty
I might do this even though I’m getting a 3070!

Alynoser

Dabadger84
For those getting 3090s, I present to you, adding heatsinks to help keep the back of the card happy, phase 1:

 
This was waaaaaaaay more trouble than it looks like it shoulda been and not as much coverage as I was hoping to get out of the kit I bought, but... for those looking at 3090s specifically, I'd definitely recommend looking in to getting some heatsinks for the back of the card if you can.
I have my card vertically mounted now, with a fan blowing on those lil' heatsinks, just ran a PR run to compare temps stock vs stock to an old run I did when I got the card: Mem1 & Mem2 are 4-6C cooler than the old run, and most of the other temps are 1-2C cooler across the board.
I'm definitely going to be picking up another thing of heatsinks to put some over the VRM areas on the back of the card.
The ones in the picture are applied via thermal tape, by the by.  The whole kit, small as it was, only cost $11, so definitely worth it for that temperature reduction!

Could you post the link of where you got those?

javelina1
Reminds me of a couple of my Raspberry Pi's....

Dabadger84

Oxycontin

Dabadger84

coldrain85

Dabadger84
3090 FTW3 Hybrid resale got pretty crazy at the end, 17 watchers - in the last 90 seconds of the listing it went up, a lot O_o People are crazy fighting that hard & paying this much over invoice.  I'm offering the dude his choice of shipping method at no extra cost cuz I feel bad that he's paying that much for it - despite the fact that I'm not actually "making" that much since EBay/Paypal fees are a b-i-youknowwhat.

Great, so you're here to tell a bunch of people who are waiting for months to get a card about how you scalped one. Know your audience.

Riiiight.  I used the card for a month then upgraded & resold the other card.  You're confusing scalpers that sell dozens or hundreds of units purely for the profit for someone reselling hardware they're not longer going to use.  How much people bid on it isn't exactly up to me dude.

I'm sorry, You upgraded from a 3090 to what, another 3090 ? yeah, probably the wrong place to boast about reselling a card, at-least at this point in time.

*facepalm* I love how everyone just takes things as gloat or boasting all the time, reminds me of an old saying - some people aren't happy unless they have something to complain about.
 

coldrain85
The bidding war was your choice, not theirs. Why not just list it for retail + fees and call it at that?

The bidding war was my choice... O_o so I'm supposed to sell it at cost & let some scalper with a bot that scans for low-price listings to buy & resell them at a profit get my card instead of someone that actually wants to use it for, you know, gaming, like I did?  That logic is flawed. 
Saying I am "possibly taking advantage of the situation" to potentially make profit (which after fees, shipping and my initial investment, it's not) would be accurate.  Saying I'm "scalping and gloating about a profit sale" is not.
I would have resold the card locally, but I live literally in bum**** Egypt when it comes to how barren this part of the U.S. is in terms of gamers - there's literally no more than a dozen posts for computer parts sales on Facebook in this area and most of it is older, used stuff, I seriously doubt anyone out here especially given the current economic climate can afford to drop $1900 on a GPU out of nowhere - and if they can, they probably already did.  I tried to resell my 3080 FTW3 Ultra locally when I got rid of that after getting the Hybrid card, no one bit for a week - not wasting that much time waiting again when prices are only going up.
The guy that ended up winning it was the original (first) bidder, gave him a choice of better shipping options (at no cost addition) when the original shipment payment was FREE on the listing, and he asked questions that make me believe it's going to a good home (examples: asked how the card was used, was it overclocked a lot, what temperatures it ran at, etc).  I'm also going to make sure he has the ability to be taken care of via the full warranty, be it through re-registering it himself, or I will handle it with only him having to pay for return shipping of the card, for the life of the warranty.  I do that with all the hardware I resell, be it locally or via EBay.
 
Thanks to Liftedcross for the backup, but I really think it's more a case of what I said earlier.  I.E. some people aren't happy unless they have something to complain about.

InfusionOfFear
I find it weird that Amazon is selling pretty much on the regular the FTW3 Ultra 3090 cards. Shouldn't EVGA be holding all cards for the queue? I'm in queue for an FTW3 Ultra Hybrid which I have not seen sold in retail. 

Zephmeister

InfusionOfFear
I find it weird that Amazon is selling pretty much on the regular the FTW3 Ultra 3090 cards. Shouldn't EVGA be holding all cards for the queue? I'm in queue for an FTW3 Ultra Hybrid which I have not seen sold in retail. 

This has been discussed in this thread multiple times, but EVGA does have contractual obligations to regular retail outlets and has to send a majority of that stock to those retailers. The queue is essentially the excess that's not already spoken for to those retailers.

Dabadger84

static.quai
This is straight trash.  You do you if you like, but giving up to the minute details on offloading a card you got from the queue (an assumption, but I don't think the hydro cards are available elsewhere) is just bad form.  It's especially bad when in the next breath you're thanking someone for using your stupid evga code because it gets you closer to a new mobo.  You are acting like a leech.  You take charity from others on these boards and then go straight auction on a card you got from the queue here because you figure if you don't make that money, someone else will.
 
You may be a great person.  I don't know you, so I can't speak on that.  But I can speak on how tone deaf you are with what you're saying.

Bolded some talking points, and I'll go ahead & TLDR it for folks: Thank you for proving my points: 

• People are all too happy to assume the worst
• Too many people are only "happy" when they have something to complain about
• Too many people just assume they're entitled to stuff
• Basically you're jealous

First of all "using my stupid code" as you so jealously & eloquently put it, gets them a discount - it also precludes me from being able to get said discount.  The return on investment of helping & being kind on these forums & people thereby using my code is a choice they make of their own free will, and results in some eVGA Bucks, that I have chosen to allocate towards an eventual motherboard upgrade.
To the point of "assuming the worst" as some people have here while complaining - was a number given?  Do you even know if I made profit?  Do you realize how much EBay fees are (10%, by the way, which equates to $200 of a $2000 sale as an example that is relevant in this case with a $1799 retail card), adding on top of that shipping ($20) which I did not charge for, and Paypal fees (3%) - then adding in sales tax & shipping I paid to get the card ($140 combined)?  Meaning just to resell the card and break even, one would have to have a starting price of $2225, roughly,  JUST to get the price they paid back, plus fees.  I listed my card at less than that as a starting bid.  Out of the dozen plus watchers, only 2 people actually bid.  And no, I did not make "tons of profit" as some would love to believe.
 
The sense of entitlement that some keep spewing out whenever anyone mentions anything about having a card, giving a card to someone, reselling a card, or whatever, is pretty ridiculous at this point.  Acting like one person's queue wait is any more or less erk-some than another's, or that I didn't wait almost 2 months to get a card I got in queue for ON launch day, in more than once case, at the very least, is also pretty ridiculous.  No one in this thread, to my knowledge, is responsible for mass-scalping hundreds of cards that is part of the reason why we're in this mess to begin with, taking the anger/irritation everyone feels about this out on other people waiting in queue, is pretty ridiculous - seeing a theme I hope.
 
Your opinion of me acting like a leech is your freedom to express, but in reality, in adult land, I'm good, and anyone that does or doesn't use my code is good too - I thank those that do because I think it's only the right thing to do so, I'm happy to be able to provide help when I can give it regardless of whether or not that person uses my code or anything else.  I'm happy to be able to provide a code that gives people a discount, regardless of what benefit I get from it, or the fact that it bars me from being able to use a code myself to get the same discount on purchases, I'm cool with that at this point.
 
Why you brought this up again when the entire thread had moved on from it to me shows you wanted to stir up drama, something I'm not keen on and want no part in, so this will be my last post on the matter in this thread.

InfusionOfFear
Thank you for the information. I wasn't going to go through 700 pages to find the answer. Also, searching can be difficult if you don't know the exact terminology to use. 

Dabadger84
It's very likely at some point, eventually, Hybrid cards will show up at retailers/e-tailers, currently I hope eVGA is holding them to the queue-only system so that they can also control the production numbers better, which means they can allocate more of the dies that would otherwise have to go to higher demand for Hybrid GPUs for regular retailers, to other SKUs.  There's no real way of knowing that for sure of course.
With the continual delays that happened involving the Hydrocopper blocks/Hydrocopper cards, I think we can expect those to be less-often dropped when they do come around, like the Hybrid cards, so there's less further-dilution of what supply there is, until it actually picks up (if it ever does before we're talking about the RTX 4080 launch in August of 2022).

Zephmeister

InfusionOfFear
Thank you for the information. I wasn't going to go through 700 pages to find the answer. Also, searching can be difficult if you don't know the exact terminology to use. 

Yeah, I started with saying it's been discussed before as to not take away from other people who have already responded to this question. I also understand it's extremely daunting to come to a thread with as many pages as this one has to find the answer to your question. I'm glad I was able to shed some light on the situation!
 

Dabadger84
It's very likely at some point, eventually, Hybrid cards will show up at retailers/e-tailers, currently I hope eVGA is holding them to the queue-only system so that they can also control the production numbers better, which means they can allocate more of the dies that would otherwise have to go to higher demand for Hybrid GPUs for regular retailers, to other SKUs.  There's no real way of knowing that for sure of course.
With the continual delays that happened involving the Hydrocopper blocks/Hydrocopper cards, I think we can expect those to be less-often dropped when they do come around, like the Hybrid cards, so there's less further-dilution of what supply there is, until it actually picks up (if it ever does before we're talking about the RTX 4080 launch in August of 2022).

 
It would be nice to see the hybrids more widely available when the stock is more consistent across the board. As for now, I'm definitely happy with the fact that these are exclusive to the fans who follow with EVGA in general.

NarcoticHobo
Some of you people take not getting a graphics card way too seriously.  I'd hate to see what you'd do with a shortage of something that matters...

jehoffman1
It is irritating when one is waiting for a product in short supply to see someone else buying units at retail price and reselling them at higher prices. But it is not illegal.
 
For those buying a card they don't really want, while they wait for the card they do want, and then reselling the first card at a profit, it is your right to do so. But please understand that talking about it on this forum is very irritating to those waiting for a card who haven't been able to get one. So, how about doing what you want but refrain from posting statements about it that you must know are very irritating to others.
 
It is important to stop the bickering on this forum before EVGA decides it doesn't need the grief and terminates the queue system. The queue system may be far from perfect, but it is much better than is available from other card makers and retailers. We should all be grateful to EVGA for going to the trouble and expense of maintaining the system. While direct sales let EVGA get the retail price rather than the wholesale price, it comes at an expense. It cannot be terribly profitable to maintain the queue and conduct direct sales or the other card makers would be doing the same thing.

NarcoticHobo
Hey guys so I managed to get a couple hundred cards from the queue with my bot server farm and sold them on craigslist for some nice profit.  Now that I've got some money I can get the one I really want, so the question is ... should I get the Bugatti La Voiture Noire or the Rolls Royce Sweptail?
 
 
FN: This post brought to you by sarcasm.
 
FN to the FN:  Please don't kill me.

CptT95
 the world doesn't revolve around you.