enewt
Static.Quai is also part of the 10% that won't need embellishment...he is a principle character in this tale. 

static.quai
I remember back in 2021.. I'd already been waiting on a 3090 for over half a year.  My eyes were set on a KPE, because if you're going to spend a bit of coin on something, might as well buy the best.  It wasn't just GPUs that were scarce though.  I was really torn on do you buy that if the opportunity arises or get this awesome refrigerator.  Space for miles, especially in the freezer.  Now the practical side says you focus on the essential needs, like keeping food in the house.  But that's not where we were then.  I could order most anything to be delivered daily, but I couldn't really do that with a GPU.  Sure, you can go to AWS or Azure and pay for GPU compute time, but it was terribly inefficient and limited to a degree by your bandwidth.  So I said no way, I don't care about food in the home, just give me that KPE.  I haven't second guessed that ever, but I tell you, those were tough times.  The best approximation I can relate it to is why don't you wake up every morning, give yourself a papercut, then pour salt on it.

aliop1
Goddamnit. Why are so many 3060’s dropping but nothing on the higher SKU’s? Can the 3897 queue just PLEASE move to 9/22(next day). I’m getting pissed off seeing 3060’s move while everything else remains stagnant. Like ****?!?!

Yes I know I asked this yesterday, but the answer I got is that they want to increase the prices of high margin products, and that doesn’t make sense.

aliop1
I’m talking about the notify queue. They haven’t done jack**** for the past week for the 3080 or 3090(exception: 8 kingpin cards), but almost daily drops for 3060. There’s not as bad of a silicon shortage if they can move the 3060 queues daily, so why aren’t they paying attention to the higher-margin queues? I’ve been waiting since September 22nd.

Edit: maybe I need a break. Watching the 3897 not move while the 3060 moves is seriously killing me.

EnigmicAzn

aliop1
I’m talking about the notify queue. They haven’t done jack**** for the past week for the 3080 or 3090(exception: 8 kingpin cards), but almost daily drops for 3060. There’s not as bad of a silicon shortage if they can move the 3060 queues daily, so why aren’t they paying attention to the higher-margin queues? I’ve been waiting since September 22nd.

Edit: maybe I need a break. Watching the 3897 not move while the 3060 moves is seriously killing me.

Probably. It's not good to come on here everyday and stress over your potential card dropping. You'll end up like some of the other people in here that have kinda gone off the deep-end.
 
I was literally seconds from 3898 in March and I had to wait 1.5 months to get my card. You think being an hour or day away is hard, imagine those in seconds lol. Hopefully you got something to tide you over until your turn arrives so the wait isn't too horrendous
 

aliop1I’m talking about the notify queue. They haven’t done jack**** for the past week for the 3080 or 3090(exception: 8 kingpin cards), but almost daily drops for 3060. There’s not as bad of a silicon shortage if they can move the 3060 queues daily, so why aren’t they paying attention to the higher-margin queues?

hashmeir70
I was literally seconds from 3898 in March and I had to wait 1.5 months to get my card. You think being an hour or day away is hard, imagine those in seconds lol. Hopefully you got something to tide you over until your turn arrives so the wait isn't too horrendous
I've been less than a minute from the 3898 for about that long. I can confirm the feeling. It has caused me to tidy up my email inbox to the best it's been in years.

Treecat22
Also as a long time lurker thanks enewt for all you do I wish you luck with with HC tomorrow!

Treecat22
So at this point, like many, I'm pretty frustrated by the wait. I know EVGA isn't at fault and they are offering something no other company is with the queue. I have been EVGA loyal for years and plan on keeping it that way. But I've become just frustrated enough with the stock issues to consider spending the money on the 3090 Kingpin HC in the near future if I can get on the list early enough. This may not be the place to ask but if anyone has advice or can guide me to the proper forum, what would be the necessary setup to watercool that card. I have always done aircooling and if possible would probably still keep my noctua cpu cooler and just cool the 3090. Is that a viable set up? Am I going to get over my head setting up water cooling? What parts would I need? I know a pump, a radiator, tubing, the liquid itself, and fans.

Any recommendations or advice would be greatly appreciated. Also as a long time lurker thanks enewt for all you do I wish you luck with with HC tomorrow!

Ericthegreat
Just incase you miss it it seems you can email them and they'll let you order anyway.

kandiflippin

Treecat22
So at this point, like many, I'm pretty frustrated by the wait. I know EVGA isn't at fault and they are offering something no other company is with the queue. I have been EVGA loyal for years and plan on keeping it that way. But I've become just frustrated enough with the stock issues to consider spending the money on the 3090 Kingpin HC in the near future if I can get on the list early enough. This may not be the place to ask but if anyone has advice or can guide me to the proper forum, what would be the necessary setup to watercool that card. I have always done aircooling and if possible would probably still keep my noctua cpu cooler and just cool the 3090. Is that a viable set up? Am I going to get over my head setting up water cooling? What parts would I need? I know a pump, a radiator, tubing, the liquid itself, and fans.

Any recommendations or advice would be greatly appreciated. Also as a long time lurker thanks enewt for all you do I wish you luck with with HC tomorrow!

It’s easy to set up but be prepared to spend way more than you planned for. Whatever fittings you think you need, double it, get 90 degree and 45 degree fittings that rotate (bought a bunch that didn’t rotate and they all ended up pointing the opposite direction I needed after tightening them down), get extra coolant just in case. It’s easy enough to run the tubing, pressure test, and run the pump for a day before powering everything.

Andrew_WOTSuspicions sale of a batch of EVGA cards here. May be something EVGA can look into, someone definitely got his hands on supply chain.

nick_shl

Andrew_WOTSuspicions sale of a batch of EVGA cards here. May be something EVGA can look into, someone definitely got his hands on supply chain.

4 card you can easily obtain via queue using addresses of your relatives/friends/coworkers. And you can obtain multiple EVGA cards on one person/address as soon they have different SKUs.