sidm2K9
I am in a rage rt now, really hoping EVGA comes through...wasted my night/morning on this with BB and NE. 

For a 3070? I think everybody will end up pleasantly surprised 

Any updates on 3080 xc3 gaming cards releasing soon?

Quick reminder, if you are new to this thread with today's 3070 launch, I recommend you "auto-notify" for all the cards that could reasonably fit in your budget.  Some queues are moving faster than others (Gaming Blacks, I am looking at you...[they are still at the starting line for both 3080s and 3090s]) and this approach may give you some flexibility if, as expected, the 3070 queues drag on in-line with what we've seen from the 3080s and 3090s.  Good luck!  
 

I just finally got the read only version of spreadsheet to open.... Is it accurate that we are only around 8:30am-ish time for the 3080FTW Ultra? I haven't been around for the past day and feel like I have been out of the loop for a month. I don't know how up to date the spreadsheet is lately..thnx

uhh, were these stolen?
 

 
How do you get four of them on launch day?
(and no, I'm not buying from scalpers on ebay, I just wanted to see how successful they were. the answer is: very)
 
edit: realized I can't post a link... but found an ebay listing with a picture of 4 cards in hand ready to go, all EVGA

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MrMichaelJames
To which family and friends will mock and ridicule over getting so upset over something so silly...ahhh family and holidays.

I've been a gamer for more than 35 years; ridicule comes with the territory.
 
If we had more time, I would regale you with stories of 5.25" floppy disks at swap meets and BBSs.  If you haven't heard the 1200 baud dial-up modem tones (let alone 600 baud tones) and, in that cacophony, appreciated that your night was just beginning...then you haven't lived.   

Back in college my roommate and I would buy large boxes full of 3.5" HD floppies. Have memories of running a cable from my mac to his dos box because we could play warcraft against each other. The joy of getting a 14.4 modem then the pains of downloading from a BBS only to have someone in the house pick up the phone and drop your connection...ahhhh. Then the joy of having a fast connection in college where we would download everything we could find just because we could do it "fast" (compared to now though it was actually really slow!). Watching the first quicktime videos the size of a postage stamp in awe at this new tech that just blew our minds away at the time.

Sorry if this kind of question has already been asked -- late to the party here. So if we signed up on 10/21, how long are we thinking it's gonna take? A month? Two? Just curious, since some folks who signed up much earlier still haven't received their emails. I'm not on the spreadsheet, by the way.

slow88lx
I wish we knew any numbers on production at all. It feels like these cards are being hand built. With, at most, 10-20 dropping in a single day. How they aren't coming out in batches of 1000-10000 boggles my mind. Even when there is limited availability of Playstation's or Xbox's or iPhones it's only because 10's of million's of people were lined up to buy 10's of millions of them.
 
Are there even 10,000 30-series cards in the whole world? I have no sense of the scale. 

They could be coming out in batches of 1000 for all we know. The issue is that EVGA gets a small piece of a big pie for it's in-house sales. If ALL of the cards were being sold in-house the queue would obviously be moving faster, but there would also be 50x as many people so it wouldn't make a difference. At least this way you won't waste your time throwing darts on Newegg hoping that you will get lucky and beat the bots (you won't). Unless you are using a bot I wouldn't bother with online retailers right now. It's a waste of time.

MrMichaelJames
Back in college my roommate and I would buy large boxes full of 3.5" HD floppies. Have memories of running a cable from my mac to his dos box because we could play warcraft against each other. The joy of getting a 14.4 modem then the pains of downloading from a BBS only to have someone in the house pick up the phone and drop your connection...ahhhh. Then the joy of having a fast connection in college where we would download everything we could find just because we could do it "fast" (compared to now though it was actually really slow!). Watching the first quicktime videos the size of a postage stamp in awe at this new tech that just blew our minds away at the time.

We should do a whole thread just giving oral histories of the early days of gaming.  Or not.  Some of those stories are pretty ridiculous.  Thanks for sharing; I had similar experiences and your post brought a smile to my face.
 

dragomirc
I wonder how long will wait for 08G-P5-3755-KR 10/29/2020 6:00:55 AM
It is freaking 55 seconds after official launch.
 
Could someone explain to me how is possible to have notification before 6:00AM?

The SKU page was up for a few brief moments yesterday as a test.  At least two enterprising folks were spamming F5 and caught the "auto-notify" link.  Then it launched around 5:59 am this morning. 
 

morenonet
Sorry if this kind of question has already been asked -- late to the party here. So if we signed up on 10/21, how long are we thinking it's gonna take? A month? Two? Just curious, since some folks who signed up much earlier still haven't received their emails. I'm not on the spreadsheet, by the way.

 
You've got awhile to wait, I am afraid.  Probably December (at the earliest) unless volumes increase dramatically.  

nickabughannam
anyone know if this puts me close to day one?  08G-P5-3767-KR 10/29/2020 6:01:26 AM PT No

To be honest, we likely won't know until after the first full drop.  And even then, because we don't have a well-populated spreadsheet for the 3070s...it will be a LOT of speculation (more than what we engage in here on the 3080s and 3090s on the regular).  I would think that you are within the first 500 - 1000 people to sign up, for what that's worth. I hope you fall within the first day drop...that would be a good sign for the 3070 launch. 

ahhh....so that's why I couldn't get to evga.com

I wish we knew when they were sending out the e-mails... I'm signed up in the first min but still haven't seen anything. BB and NE were failures for me as I couldn't get through check out

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sidm2K9
I am in a rage rt now, really hoping EVGA comes through...wasted my night/morning on this with BB and NE. 

No, don't do that.  "Rage Mode" is specific to the AMD gpu.    Sorry, I couldn't resist.   
 
If you've been here since the beginning (9/16 and 9/17), then you know what happened this morning is par for the course. I do think the 3070 launch will start to spread out the demand considerably.  AMD coming online in November will also help.  We will all get a card.  As frustrating and maddening as this is, we will get through it.  And have a mostly boring story to tell our friends and family over holiday meals.

According to the spreadsheet, it's estimated I'll get my email sometime around January 8th (9/21, ~10pm).  If that does end up being the case, at least it'll give me a chance to check out the 6900 XT benchmarks and availability.  I know it's not EVGA's fault and I would totally buy from them if I switched to AMD, if they actually made AMD cards.  I'm hoping you're right, though, and demand spreads out, decreasing queue times.  I don't really want to wait nearly four months after launch to get a graphics card.  This is insane.

08G-P5-3751-KL 10/29/2020 6:05:37 AM PT Yes

WilliamTheGamer
08G-P5-3751-KL 10/29/2020 6:05:37 AM PT Yes

Congratulations!  And we are off and running.  Also, a 6:05 am auto-notify time is a REALLY good sign re launch day volume.  

Actually many people were unaware of launch edition me included. We will know more once the main queues start going out