sparetimepc

Hauler24
Really excited for the 3070 XC3 Black to drop soon. I am :44 seconds and it's at :27 seconds. I can't wait. 
 
Hopefully the queue moves fairly quickly for 3090 FTW3 Ultras

That would be driving me nuts to be that close to order time and still not order

I was 30sec away last week and I am no 22 seconds away and still nothing. It's lime they send 1-2 3070s per day since last week XD

Hauler24

sparetimepc

Hauler24
Really excited for the 3070 XC3 Black to drop soon. I am :44 seconds and it's at :27 seconds. I can't wait. 

Hopefully the queue moves fairly quickly for 3090 FTW3 Ultras

That would be driving me nuts to be that close to order time and still not order

I'm just being patient. Really looking forward to the improvement in performance from the 1080 TI to the 3070 and then once I get the 3090 later on it's go time. Hopefully tomorrow will be the day, but if not that's ok. 

I went from a 1080 Ti FTW3 Hybrid (and a small stint with a step-up card I bought, 2070 Super, which is pretty much the same or slightly less performance than a 1080 Ti) to a 3080, so far from what I've seen in games I've played substantially, the difference is huge, especially since I'm at 3440 x 1440 so the 1080 Ti had issues in some games maintaining 60FPS.
 
Just got done replaying the Mafia series, Mafia 3 was definitely a pleasant surprise, I was expecting another 8-10 hour game, not a 40-hour GTA V meets Watch Dogs 1 type open world with actual free roam in it etc.  Had to figure out a crashing issue that was the game itself, but other than that, very fun (for anyone that has similar issues, unfortunately I had to cap my frame rate at 60FPS, apparently FPS/frame time spikes, because I was getting north of 120fps most of the time, were what was causing the game to crash completely).

So I'm actually not sure anymore if I want to go with an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra: with all the reports of people having problems with it with X and Y, and lots of RMA that seem to happen, I'm thinking about going with another brand instead. Which really sucks because I always had good cards with EVGA, but they seemed to have rushed the QA side maybe for the cards this gen?
 
Anyway I'm keeping my place in line for the card here (Sept 22nd 6:00am for the 3080 FTW3 Ultra) but also keeping a close eye on the Asus ROG Strix version of the 3080 on Newegg here. Whichever happens first I guess, but I'm having some serious doubt about EVGA quality for this gen... :(

enewt
 
Summary
 
As Tuesday comes to a close, it was a day noteworthy for a few straggler cards being distributed in the following lines (that had significant drops on Monday): 3090, 3080 and 3070 Ultras, and the 3080 XC3 Black. 
 
Some longtime contributors to this thread secured cards today and are busy lighting candles for their local UPS drivers.  Again, congratulations!!! 
 
Finally, those of us who are approaching the infamous “bubble” between being in the next drop or not…should once again be confirming that EVGA is whitelisted in their preferred email client.
 
With that, the North American queues stand approximately here (bold font denotes movement from Monday):  
 
     Card                                 SKU                      Auto-Notify Date/Time 

     Ultra
     3090 FTW3 Ultra               3987                     10/06/2020 12:36:43
    3090 XC3 Ultra                 3975                     10/05/2020 20:07:44
    3080 FTW3 Ultra               3897                     09/17/2020 17:34:00
     3080 XC3 Ultra                 3885                     09/17/2020 08:06:00*
    3070 FTW3 Ultra               3767                     10/29/2020 06:01:11
    3070 XC3 Ultra                 3755                     09/29/2020 00:00:00

    Gaming
     3090 FTW3 Gaming          3985                      09/24/2020 12:38:00
    3090 XC3 Gaming            3973                      09/24/2020 00:00:00
    3080 FTW3 Gaming          3895                      09/16/2020 00:00:00
    3080 XC3 Gaming            3883                      09/16/2020 11:01:20
    3070 XC3 Gaming            3753                      09/29/2020 00:00:00

    Black
     3090 XC3 Black                3971                      09/24/2020 00:00:00 
    3080 XC3 Black                3881                      09/16/2020 12:40:00
    3070 XC3 Black                3751                      10/29/2020 06:09:27 
 
* Please note that there is an additional report of a 9:43:00 am registrant receiving an invite to purchase email.  This may be an erroneous entry so, until more reports confirm that progress, I have gone with the more conservative time stamp above.
 
May the middle of the week bring early morning drops (so those lucky ducks can complete their orders before the daily shipping cutoff (likely around 2 or 3 pm) to facilitate a pre-weekend delivery). Once you receive your “invite to purchase” email, if you have a moment, please report back to the thread with your card model and original date/time stamp (it is really helpful to those of who remain on our watch). 
 
Have a great night (away from your inboxes).  Happy hunting on Wednesday!

If that report was true, I got leapfrogged! My notifies page remains yes free and my inbox is bare of any emails from EVGA.

mnelson999
Does anyone happen to know? Are the 3090 Hybrids still tracking for being available the first week of December?
24G-P5-3988-KR 11/13/2020 9:41:52 AM PT No 

It's getting close to decision time.  I'm currently sitting here for my 3090 air, but am leaning towards getting the hybrid instead.
24G-P5-3987-KR 10/6/2020 1:42:13 PM PT No

... if you got in notify queue for the Hybrid cards in the tiny window they had it open, your card will ship on release day, pretty sure that's exactly what Jacob said.
 
Grrrrrrr.

Urobulus
So I'm actually not sure anymore if I want to go with an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra: with all the reports of people having problems with it with X and Y, and lots of RMA that seem to happen, I'm thinking about going with another brand instead. Which really sucks because I always had good cards with EVGA, but they seemed to have rushed the QA side maybe for the cards this gen?
 
Anyway I'm keeping my place in line for the card here (Sept 22nd 6:00am for the 3080 FTW3 Ultra) but also keeping a close eye on the Asus ROG Strix version of the 3080 on Newegg here. Whichever happens first I guess, but I'm having some serious doubt about EVGA quality for this gen... :(

I would remind you that what we see on these tech-support-heavy forums are but a small sample of how many cards are actually out there, and the majority of people that post are going to be posting because of issues, most people NOT having issues aren't going to take the time to post "hey my card is working great", because that's what everyone EXPECTS the card to do, to be fair.
 
Personally, I've had my 3080 FTW3 Ultra since the second week of October & have not had a single issue, but I know full well there have been batches with a much-higher-than acceptable failure rate since then, at least it seems that way, however, there is no way to know how many of these are actually bad cards, and how many of them are possibly people's systems being inadequate for how CHONKI these cards are when it comes to power requirements.
 
You also have to remember that eVGA is taking good care of the people that are having issues, the RMA process is pretty fast, and free, unless you want to pay for Advanced RMA (which I do recommend if you're planning on keeping the card for more than 2 years, as it will allow you to get in a replacement before sending your card in if it ever does need RMAing, which streamlines the process, and it's only like $40 for that peace of mind).
 
The majority of people we see getting 2-3 cards in a row that all die, I do suspect it's at least partly their system that is actually the problem, I find it incredibly hard to believe that eVGA has THAT many cards that are dying that fast.
 
For the 3070 specifically, I don't think we've heard anything about failures yet... but, that's also a completely different PCB from what I understand.  The 3080 and 3090 (specifically the FTW3 Ultra) I think share the same PCB?  So that would explain why they're having a similarly oddly-high/abnormal failure rate around the same batch/timing as eachother.

If anyone wants to remove all my listings on the notification spreadsheet they can. I have removed all my notifications. I was keeping the 3080 Ultra just in case the 3090 I received didn't work out (naive I know:-)
 
FYI - I do not like the COD Black Ops game I got free with my card that was ordered on the Oct 27. I like the free Warzone game that I have been playing all along but not Black Ops. The larger map on Warzone is better in my opinion. Who knows maybe eventually it will grow on me but just wish I had received the original game that was advertised with the card. Not too happy with Nvidia for screwing me out of it.

There was an Amazon drop last night as well. Was there long enough for them to actually send out notification emails.

Celeras
There was an Amazon drop last night as well. Was there long enough for them to actually send out notification emails.

yep, and I got the notification at 11:30pm last night...  too bad I was counting sheep...   grrr....

Scottabott
try Nazi zombies - that mode is pretty fun!

Thanks and I will try it. I may not have given the game enough time but Warzone hooked me the first time I played it. 

evgaboyd

mudbone91
If anyone wants to remove all my listings on the notification spreadsheet they can. I have removed all my notifications. I was keeping the 3080 Ultra just in case the 3090 I received didn't work out (naive I know:-) 
FYI - I do not like the COD Black Ops game I got free with my card that was ordered on the Oct 27. I like the free Warzone game that I have been playing all along but not Black Ops. The larger map on Warzone is better in my opinion. Who knows maybe eventually it will grow on me but just wish I had received the original game that was advertised with the card. Not too happy with Nvidia for screwing me out of it.

i mean at least you have a card. I'd be more than happy to dislike a free game and have a card, then to not have one at all.

Well that would be the glass half full kind of attitude The only reason I am here is I wanted to remove all my notifications and ask if anyone else knew how I could verify the 240hz refresh rate. My old card and monitor would not let me exceed 1920 X 1080 60hz I guess due to hardware limitations. So the settings in Warzone might just be tied to the max hardware limits and not actually what the game is getting. Either way though it looks pretty good. My vision is not what it was when I was younger so I need all the help I can get

Scottabott

mudbone91
 How can I tell if I am actually getting a 240hz refresh rate shown in the games setting? 

Download MSI afterburner and have it monitor your FPS on an overlay. My guess would be you are not getting a stable 240, and you probably even have limited FPS based on your CPU. 240 is really hard to push.
You can also enable an FPS counter in the game settings which will tell you instantaneous  FPS. But afterburner can be set up to show averages, 1% lows, etc etc
Good luck! Warzone is a blast.

I will try it. I am not going to buy another motherboard and processor until PCIe 4.0 becomes available. In my opinion it would be a waste of money until the new standard is available. Hopefully they become available next year but I have not read up on the subject. 

mudbone91
 
I will try it. I am not going to buy another motherboard and processor until PCIe 4.0 becomes available. In my opinion it would be a waste of money until the new standard is available. Hopefully they become available next year but I have not read up on the subject. 

Totally agree. If I'm you, I don't really care whether I am averaging 180 fps or 240 fps, I'm just enjoying the games at that point while your 3090 hums away in your system. No need to upgrade parts unless the experience you're getting isn't what you are looking for.
 
Back on topic - I'm rooting for some 3070 FTW Ultra movement today!

johnlilley
spare a thought for your european cousins who see this on their notifies **PLEASE NOTE**
EVGA Staff and Customer Service do not have access to queue positions or estimated times for your notifies and as such, would not be able to give you that information via phone or email.
waiting on this :
10/30/2020 3:52:07 AM PTNo
 
its for my sons first pc build for christmas but cant tell him which xmas it will be!

 
Over the last few weeks, several members of this thread have expressed disappointment and solidarity with our EU peers over the lack of units making their way to your shores.  We celebrated the start of the queue process in the EU.  We, too, don't have official means to identify queue positions...we have crowdsourced it through makeshift spreadsheets, reports back to forum threads, searching reddit posts and discord channels.  
 
Going forward, I hope the volume and cadence of drops for EU increases dramatically and that EVGA cards start flowing to Europeans gamers as they have done so here.  Best of luck!
 

Dabadger84

Urobulus
So I'm actually not sure anymore if I want to go with an EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra: with all the reports of people having problems with it with X and Y, and lots of RMA that seem to happen, I'm thinking about going with another brand instead. Which really sucks because I always had good cards with EVGA, but they seemed to have rushed the QA side maybe for the cards this gen?
 
Anyway I'm keeping my place in line for the card here (Sept 22nd 6:00am for the 3080 FTW3 Ultra) but also keeping a close eye on the Asus ROG Strix version of the 3080 on Newegg here. Whichever happens first I guess, but I'm having some serious doubt about EVGA quality for this gen... :(

I would remind you that what we see on these tech-support-heavy forums are but a small sample of how many cards are actually out there, and the majority of people that post are going to be posting because of issues, most people NOT having issues aren't going to take the time to post "hey my card is working great", because that's what everyone EXPECTS the card to do, to be fair.
 
Personally, I've had my 3080 FTW3 Ultra since the second week of October & have not had a single issue, but I know full well there have been batches with a much-higher-than acceptable failure rate since then, at least it seems that way, however, there is no way to know how many of these are actually bad cards, and how many of them are possibly people's systems being inadequate for how CHONKI these cards are when it comes to power requirements.
 
You also have to remember that eVGA is taking good care of the people that are having issues, the RMA process is pretty fast, and free, unless you want to pay for Advanced RMA (which I do recommend if you're planning on keeping the card for more than 2 years, as it will allow you to get in a replacement before sending your card in if it ever does need RMAing, which streamlines the process, and it's only like $40 for that peace of mind).
 
The majority of people we see getting 2-3 cards in a row that all die, I do suspect it's at least partly their system that is actually the problem, I find it incredibly hard to believe that eVGA has THAT many cards that are dying that fast.
 
For the 3070 specifically, I don't think we've heard anything about failures yet... but, that's also a completely different PCB from what I understand.  The 3080 and 3090 (specifically the FTW3 Ultra) I think share the same PCB?  So that would explain why they're having a similarly oddly-high/abnormal failure rate around the same batch/timing as eachother.

 
In general, I agree with Dabadger84.  EVGA seems to have done a better job getting their cards into the hands of consumers this cycle.  If that is true -- which I believe it to be -- then they can still have the same error rates as their peer AIBs and yet have more reports overall.  Additionally, the tech-support-heavy forums tend to over-index on RMA issues and complaints...which is one of their main uses between launch events, etc. etc.  
 
Finally, I am a big believer in EVGA's superlative RMA procedures and overall customer service team.  
 
I remain a fan.
 

mudbone91
FYI - I do not like the COD Black Ops game I got free with my card that was ordered on the Oct 27. I like the free Warzone game that I have been playing all along but not Black Ops. The larger map on Warzone is better in my opinion. Who knows maybe eventually it will grow on me but just wish I had received the original game that was advertised with the card. Not too happy with Nvidia for screwing me out of it.

I can appreciate what you are saying. I am a big fan of battle royales and they have taken some of my shooter genre attention away from more traditional games.  Have you tried PUBG?  With respect to COD Cold War, I would not be surprised if by the Spring of 2021, they haven't taken some maps or other aspects of Cold War and incorporated them into Warzone.  After all, Warzone launched in the Spring as a free mode and it will be (is) due for an update.  [Also, I was never a fan of Watch Dogs.]  I hope your card continues to bring you gaming joy!

jblumenfeld
Oy.  I was willing to buy a 6800XT today if it was available, best I could do was get a 6800 in cart and then a non-functioning cart.  Glad in a way since I did not want a 6800, performance is too low for me although I am fine doing without RT.
 
This is ridiculous.  At this rate I'm not getting a card until 2021, I have never had such a hard time spending $700 in my life.  I didn't bother doing immediate notifications on the cards since I know typically that's useless so my dates suck - 9/20 for the XC3U which is moving the fastest of the queues I am in (I need the shorter XC3 card) and 9/18 on the Black.
 
Sorry just need to vent a bit!

Oh I feel ya.  I'm going to remain at about 99% NaCl content until I get in queue for a Hybrid card with the crap they pulled on those.
 
Scalpers makin' regular people's lives more difficult, welcome to Murica. lol