pclausen
Man, that 3897 is moving along:
 
At this rate, it will catch up with my 3898 sometime next week which seems to have been stuck for several weeks now:
 

 
"Acceleration is the key, keep the rhythm...keep the rhythm till the end...."  Anybody else remember that rhyming game from their kindergarten days?

Trying to see when the "notify me" will go live for 3060. Did I miss the memo or have they not announced it yet?
 

Anyone know what the pre tariff price of the 3897?

Im about 1 hr away! (1051PM)

gvarv

sturm375
XC3 3080 Complete and utter disappointment. That will teach me to think about my budget when dreaming about a card. FTWs were just out of my price range, but they are the only ones moving. Congrats to those that got them. Sucks to be me.

What's wrong with it? (I'm in line for that one too)

Its not moving much if any from what I can tell :(

Hey y’all, do emails typically go out weekly? I’m a little later in the 3060 queue (12/1 9:35am) and I think I missed the cutoff for those emails as folks with earlier times (2hours earlier) have already received their purchase emails. Hopeful for next round 😁

Repost sorry

I have not been tracking the step-up program. I think there is a separate thread for that...but I don’t actually know. Best of luck.

pclausen
Man, that 3897 is moving along:
 
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At this rate, it will catch up with my 3898 sometime next week which seems to have been stuck for several weeks now:
 

 
 

Hey guys so what exactly am i looking at in the table above.....sorry have been on here in awhile to follow along....am i seeing that notifications for FTW Ultra that were made 18 Sept are slowly moving? What is the column to the left showing Jan 5 to Jan 19 ?
I placed my order / notification on 6 Oct 3080 FTW Ultra.....looks like i have long wait still?

I knew I shoulda signed up for the Kingpin at 9:15.  Ah well... now I'm only 5 minutes away :-P How big was the drop today, 10 cards? LOL j/k
 
Edit: I suppose it's too much to hope for that more than 10 people will let the Kingpin roll over to the next person for tomorrow :-P At least I SHOULD definitely get hit by the next ACTUAL drop now that I'm ~10 spots away on the list we have going.

Dabadger84
I knew I shoulda signed up for the Kingpin at 9:15.  Ah well... now I'm only 5 minutes away :-P How big was the drop today, 10 cards? LOL j/k
 
Edit: I suppose it's too much to hope for that more than 10 people will let the Kingpin roll over to the next person for tomorrow :-P At least I SHOULD definitely get hit by the next ACTUAL drop now that I'm ~10 spots away on the list we have going.

I seem to remember telling you not to wait too long...or I am thinking of the Hybrid queue?
 
37 KPEs dropped to the self-reported queue folks, so it was likely at least 50 KPEs today.  And while you likely won't get the benefit of the inevitable straggler drop tomorrow or Wednesday, you should be in the next "new" KPE drop.  Best of luck!

bucyrus5000

enewt

alsmith21214
Will this new process stop bots?

It's not so new; It was announced back in October. We'd be a lot better off if other AIBs and tech companies adopted a similar process to fight the bots.  

The queue process does prevent bot buy-ups of stock from here, but it doesn't prevent scalping. You are free to flip your purchase. Though EVGA put limits on how many of each card you can buy.

That said, I have seen a lot of people here with almost every skew in queue...that may be so they can get their hands on any GPU ASAP...or it can be so they can flip their buys as they become available. It is not a perfect system.

On the topic of the ethics of scalping. Yes, there are POS who do this to get rich. There are also people who've lost their jobs and are flipping what they can hoping to make rent and provide for their families until better times come.
 
The people who pay 3 times MSRP for a GPU are people who used to go to their offices, but now find they are asked/allowed to work from home and find they like video games, and can afford $3k-$5k to get what they want.

Then there are some of us who have been quietly and patiently waiting for a single card to drop.  Technically I could have selected up to 6 cards that would all fit my waterblock from EK.  I was smart enough to contact them as soon as the mention of the new cards drop date.  As soon as they had specs, I ordered the waterblock to fit the card I wanted and actually received it a lot quicker than I thought.  Thought for sure it would have come long after the GPU's were released.  Here I was thinking ahead and trying to plan for the eventual water block shortage that has always plagued us in the past, only to be scr*wed by the bots/scalpers and horrible planning by the corporations behind this little nightmare we are all waiting through.  I'm still running a 1070 and had recently built an entirely new system to compliment the 3080 that would fit right in it.  So it is what it is.  My date is 9/18 for the 3881 and I didn't sign up for any others because I figured it was only fair to give everybody a shot.  Although now I'm thinking it would have been smarter, since I'm 2 days out and my card hasn't moved a second in weeks.  Doing the math, at this rate I'd likely receive my email sometime around halloween in 2021.  The irony is I decided to pickup a new monitor in the meantime.  The 4 models I was looking at all suddenly jumped 2-500 dollars overnight while I researched all of them.  Don't know if it was coincidence or somebody figured out that the new cards usually meant new monitors.  The irony is that I ended up picking up something else and went back to show a buddy the next day.  This monitor was just released and is already sold out at the only place that had it.  Other companies haven't even gotten their stock yet.  The previous (companies; vioetec, sceptre, MSI, etc) monitors were all on amazon (and SOLD by amazon).  When the prices jumped, amazon no longer sold them and they were under independent vendors.  For the record, I picked up the new MSI Optix MAG342CQR 34" from newegg.  Ordered it in the morning, they were sold out by that evening.  So not sure if the bots/scalpers are moving into that realm, but by the looks of amazon it doesn't surprise me.  Buying a $500 monitor and jacking the price up to 7-800 is a pretty good bet it's scalpers. 

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If you trust the guy, no problem.  But, think about what information you have in your account settings info, including your history of cards, warranty stuff, etc.  If it was a friend...I would consider it.  Somebody I "met" in an online forum...less sure I'd go down that path.  But folks have different comfort levels around privacy, info sharing, etc.  YMMV.  

rjbarker

pclausen
Man, that 3897 is moving along:
 
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At this rate, it will catch up with my 3898 sometime next week which seems to have been stuck for several weeks now:
 

 
 

Hey guys so what exactly am i looking at in the table above.....sorry have been on here in awhile to follow along....am i seeing that notifications for FTW Ultra that were made 18 Sept are slowly moving? What is the column to the left showing Jan 5 to Jan 19 ?
I placed my order / notification on 6 Oct 3080 FTW Ultra.....looks like i have long wait still?

 
I just took enewt's daily updates and tracked the daily progress for a particular SKU.
 
1st column is the date enewt reported, 3rd column is the notification signup timestamp for users getting notifications that day, and the 4th column shows the queue movement since the previously date movement was reported.
 
I then compared the most recent entry with my position in the queue for that SKU to determine how far away I am.  Currently I'm just over 7 hours away.  Based on an average daily movement of 74 minutes, if the pace continues, I should get my notification to purchase in about 6 days.

That's as expected.  We knew once launch day was gotten past the card queue in question would pick up steam, regardless of which queue it is.  It will slow down again when it hits the day the Queue System was implemented, then pick up speed again after that.
You have to keep in mind, for each card, the highest amount of sign ups are going to be on release day, and then of course for the 3080s/3090s, the day they implemented the queue system.
 
 
Good luck on the drops today guys, just some reminders:
 

• Don't forget to use an Associate's Code during checkout, it will save you 3% off your GPU purchase, and up to 10% on other purchases.  All you have to do is use the code at checkout (a few useful ones: Mine: 47AQQ6KPU2IZNXY - Enewt's: VDN2319M4O569J4 ) or click the links there & it will make a cookie to insert the code automatically during checkout, then when you receive your card, be sure to register it & upload your invoice from the EVGA order page.  My eVGA bucks from this in particular will be going to a Z590 Dark board, so I appreciate anyone that uses my code greatly ;)
• Keep in mind if you're ordering a Hybrid card: the tubing is 400mm in length, and the radiator + fan combo is about 56mm thick;  Hybrid card radiator exhaust can be in excess of 34-41C air, having it setup as intake is not recommended even in a CPU AIO/GPU AIO setup, as unless you have a very high core count CPU that puts out more than 400W of heat, the GPU radiator will always be the hotter of the two.
• If you purchase a card elsewhere, it's best not to remove your notify queues until you receive the card, just to be on the safe side, as if you do remove it then have to requeue, you would be at the back of the line.  Once you receive your card & remove yourself from other queues, kindly let us know which cards you removed yourself from queue for, so that others in those queues know they've effectively moved up a spot.
• It is recommended that you have, at the bare minimum, a quality 750W (or in my opinion, 850W) PSU for a 3080, and at least a 850W (or in my opinion, 1000W) PSU for a 3090, especially if you plan to overclock your CPU and/or other components at all.  Keep in mind that OCed CPUs quickly go up in power draw in most cases, i.e. a 95W TDP CPU like a 9900K can get up to 170-190W of draw from a simple 5GHz OC like mine.  Even if you're running a 3080 on a stock system, I would definitely recommend against going with less than 750W at a bare minimum, just to avoid any future issues.