Dabadger84
Edit: Anyone else notice the site got updated to saying orders won't ship until the 5th? I swear it said the 4th 2 weeks ago... guess tomorrow we either aren't getting drops or if we do they won't ship til the 5th?

Pretty sure it was always the 5th.

Soon we will see the biggest massive drop ever! Lol.

Friendly Reminders to everyone today: Make sure you use an Associate's Code during checkout, free 5% off just for entering the code, and whoever's code you decide to use gets a 3% credit in eVGA Bucks from your purchase, spread the love this holiday season!
Also keep in mind you can reply to the purchase email & request additional time if you need it to purchase your card (this is per CS & Jacob directly, they will make sure you get a card if you email them letting them know you are committed to purchasing it).  
 
Good luck today everyone!

Dabadger84
Like I said in a previous post, sometime in the last week, they changed the warehouse/fully reopening date from the 4th to the 5th.  We can hope that's in response to a large number of cards they will ship out in groups over the next few days, but who knows.

The notification I saw on their website, before Christmas, said they were closed until 1/5.  I've never seen anything that said they were closed until the 4th.

FreazyPop
Anybody know if they're sending out emails for the 3060 Ti today? I'm currently at 12/2/2020 7:13 AM for the XC3 and FTW3 Ultra.

Nobody knows anything for sure.  Or, if they do, they don't say :) It seems to be a crapshoot as to which SKUs drop, and how many.  Good luck!

So during my vacations I saw that there was multiple leaks regarding the 3080ti and possible release date of February 2021...
 
Think it will happen?

On the PSU question front, I just bought an EVGA G5 850 for this build. Does anyone anticipate any problems with that running a 3080? I'm shooting for the hybrid if that matters. My back of the envelope math says it should be good, but if anyone has any experience with it specifically, I'd appreciate your input. If it's no good for the 3080, I can just put it in my son's upcoming PC build (probably based on a 3060) and get something more suitable for myself.
 

deadmonkies

Hamburger the kid
I mean, besides the money reasons I called out, there is also the cost of systems implementation.  What system would they implement with their certified distributors?  Who would police it, and by what standard?  Implementing all of that takes labor hours and manpower, versus just sitting back and collecting a bigger margin with less warranties to honor like they are now.  Again, they are top-level as far as customer service goes, so I'm not saying they wouldn't do something like that; I'm just saying it might not make sense, fiscally.  

 

Hamburger the kid
Examples:
1.  If you buy a scalped card off amazon, you pay tax on that purchase.  So the government collects tax when the scalper buys it, then they collect tax a second time when you buy it.
2.  EVGA (and pretty much every company as far as I know) only honor their warranty to the initial buyer.  So if you buy the card from a scalper, and then in fries a week later, you're out of luck because EVGA will ask you for the invoice from the registered distributor.  So, while EVGA's warranty is best in class, they won't have to honor it in this case.
3.  Nvidia/EVGA are still getting paid, regardless of who buys the card.

 
1) EVGA doesn't get the tax money no matter what they do, so it doesn't matter to them.
2) At least one person in this discussion seems to think that EVGA will honor at least some warranties for second hand buyers. I have no idea if that's true, but if they aren't already budgeting for some amount of RMA cases based on internal MTBF testing, they're not doing The Business™ right.
3) You already said that they are already getting paid.
 
I'm not trying to start an argument, but your examples seem like non-issues to me, fiscally. At the end of the day, none of us know what EVGA's internal business logic looks like, but I think we can all agree that they want to get paid. Unless you have some convincing reasons to think they are actively working against their end users, I don't see why we should think they are, since we are their source of income.

Lol...thank you for telling me that EVGA doesn't get tax money.  Let me clarify for you:
The states get tax money. If the scalper in one state buys the card, he pays tax money to that state.  Then the end-user buys from the scalper, then his state gets that tax money as well, so two local government entities benefit from taxes rather than one.  This benefits the local governments.
 
As to business logic, successful business dictates that you sell as much as you can, for as large a margin as you can.  I'm not going to paste the link, but it's in the news how NVIDIA sold the cards directly to bitcoin mining operations, completely circumventing distribution and the end user.  NVIDIA does not care about you, the consumer; they just want to sell product. 
 
EVGA, on the other hand, is well known for supporting the customer, but they can only sell as many chips as they receive.  At the end of the day, they too, are a business.  
 

Here's the full build
 
AMD Zen 3 5800x
Noctua NH-U14S
MSI Mag B550 Tomahawk
G.skill Ripjaws 2x8GB DDR 4-3200
1x 2.5" SSD
1x NVME
EVGA G5 850w
 
The only "overclocking" I'm doing currently is running the ram at 3200MHz, and that's likely all I will do, at least for the foreseeable future.

Urobulus
So during my vacations I saw that there was multiple leaks regarding the 3080ti and possible release date of February 2021...
 
Think it will happen?

There are even rumors of SUPER versions of 3070 and 3080 already surfacing from a very reputable leaker.


The only tasty news for me in leak wise, is the news that AMD might have their 7000 series with chiplets.
 

Urobulus
So during my vacations I saw that there was multiple leaks regarding the 3080ti and possible release date of February 2021...
 
Think it will happen?

I can promise you that the 3080 Ti will become available the day after my 3080's Step Up term expires.  Joy of early adoption.
 
(Not to begrudge the fact that I've had a 3080 to use these months.  Double-edged sword, I suppose :D )

SyntaxTurtle

Urobulus
So during my vacations I saw that there was multiple leaks regarding the 3080ti and possible release date of February 2021...
 
Think it will happen?

I can promise you that the 3080 Ti will become available the day after my 3080's Step Up term expires.  Joy of early adoption.
 
(Not to begrudge the fact that I've had a 3080 to use these months.  Double-edged sword, I suppose :D )

I'm really irritated about the 3080ti. They should push it back, IMO. 

I think we will have big drops this week.

55 minutes to go.

howe10888
55 minutes to go.

40 min to go... 

evgaboyd
I think the trickle train is at the station.

A day later and that expression still makes me laugh.  #ThankYou
 
As a reminder, here is where we are to start the year.  
 
There were no drops yesterday. I am hopeful that today is the day EVGA and UPS find each other again, like some long lost couple at the end of a romantic movie and that as the credits roll, we see a fleet...strike that...fleets of fleets...of UPS trucks lined up at warehouses the size of...well, each building the size of the warehouse at the end of the Indiana Jones -- each truck being loaded up with box after box of EVGA gaming goodness.  Fade to black.  Oh, but we aren't done yet...the mid-credit scene pops up...and it is now a fleet of drones hovering above an EVGA warehouse...so many that they blot out the sun...and they are each picking up a box from the rooftop loading zone and flying off to deliver gaming goodness to deserving gamers everywhere....
 
As of 8:00 am PT Tuesday morning, this is the status of the North American queues (bolded font represents movement from the morning of Monday, January 4; italicized parentheticals calculate the length of movement (there was no movement)).  
 
     Card                                     SKU                       Auto-Notify Date/Time 


     Ultra
     3090 FTW3 Ultra                   3987                     10/07/2020 21:37:26     
     3090 XC3 Ultra                     3975                     10/05/2020 20:52:00     
     3080 FTW3 Ultra                   3897                     09/18/2020 10:48:01     
     3080 XC3 Ultra                     3885                     09/18/2020 07:22:02     
     3070 FTW3 Ultra                   3767                     10/29/2020 06:23:25    
     3070 XC3 Ultra                     3755                     10/29/2020 08:16:00    
     3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra               3667                     12/01/2020 06:51:30       

     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
     3060 Ti FTW3 Gaming           3665                      12/08/2020 13:38:30    
     3060 Ti XC3 Gaming             3663                      12/01/2020 07:04:17   

     Black
     3090 XC3 Black                    3971                      09/24/2020 00:00:00 
     3080 XC3 Black                    3881                      09/16/2020 15:14:00
     3070 XC3 Black                    3751                      10/29/2020 06:09:41 
 
     Hybrid
     3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid         3988                     12/10/2020 09:20:45
     3090 XC3 Ultra Hybrid           3978                     12/08/2020 10:54:44
     3080 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid         3898                     12/16/2020 09:03:07
     3080 XC3 Ultra Hybrid           3888                     12/10/2020 09:08:56   
 
     Hydro Copper  (Delayed)
     3090 FTW 3 Ultra HC              3989                     11/13/2020 00:00:00
     3090 XC3 Ultra HC                 3979                     11/13/2020 00:00:00
     3080 FTW3 Ultra HC               3889                     11/13/2020 00:00:00
     3080 XC3 Ultra HC                 3889                     11/13/2020 00:00:00
 
     K|NGP|N                               3998                     12/16/2020 09:13:07
 
Happy new year!  
 
Best of luck today!  Go get your card!