rlovell11b
On another note, I finally scored a Ryzen 5900x on the newegg shuffle deal. 

Congrats! Now we just need to get you a super sick GPU to make the most out of it ;)

Only thing that would make celebrating my Bucs winning the super bowl even better would be getting that email from EVGA today

Spring Festival begins on Friday, but I would fully expect companies observing the holiday to start to close down by Wednesday...the knock-on effect of the closure to hit the queue a few weeks down the road.  In the meantime, the frequency and volume of drops already feels less than what they were just a few weeks ago.  It is with that backdrop that we again turn our eyes to the inter-tubes, to our in-boxes and to the sky (in silent prayer for gaming goodness to descend upon us in the form of heavy, heavy drops). 
 
Good luck to you this week; may your hunt prove fruitful.  
 
As of 8:15 am PT Monday morning, February 8, this is the status of the North American queues (bolded font represents movement from the morning of Friday, February 5; italicized parentheticals calculate the length of movement from the prior report):
 
Card                                  SKU                        Auto-Notify Timestamp / (Change from Previous Summary)
 
Ultra
3090 FTW3 Ultra                 3987                       10/12/2020 16:23:29       
3090 XC3 Ultra                   3975                       10/05/2020 20:52:00
3080 FTW3 Ultra                 3897                       09/19/2020 06:00:03      (01:06:15)  
3080 XC3 Ultra                   3885                       09/18/2020 08:26:34 
3070 FTW3 Ultra                 3767                       10/29/2020 23:19:33      (02:02:50) 
3070 XC3 Ultra                   3755                       11/02/2020 18:52:21      (02:40:38) 
3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra             3667                       12/01/2020 07:08:53 
 
Gaming
3090 FTW3 Gaming             3985                       09/24/2020 16:12:06      
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                       10/29/2020 00:00:00
3060 Ti FTW3 Gaming         3665                       12/08/2020 13:57:16      (00:13:16) 
3060 Ti XC3 Gaming           3663                       12/01/2020 07:16:00  
 
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 06:14:00  
 
Hybrid
3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid       3988                       12/10/2020 09:29:30       
3090 XC3 Ultra Hybrid         3978                       12/08/2020 14:19:07     
3080 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid       3898                       12/16/2020 09:03:37        
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            3899                       11/13/2020 00:00:00
3080 XC3 Ultra HC              3889                       11/13/2020 00:00:00
K|NGP|N (Queue sheet)       3998                       12/16/2020 09:51:04  
 
May your remaining wait be shorter than you anticipate; it is already longer than you deserve.
 
Good luck today! Stay safe!

philipma1957

rlovell11b
On another note, I finally scored a Ryzen 5900x on the newegg shuffle deal. 

 
Nice. that should be quite a bit better than the Ryzen 3900x

Looking forward to it. Just gotta decide what mobo to go with. It will be a good step-up from the 6700k I'm rocking now. 

avacdavison
Given the reports on scarcity of GPUs through Q1, is EVGA going to extend the grandfathered prices, or are we still stuck with hoping for a card by 4/15?

I feel that the current extension of grandfathered pricing is already more than other manufacturers are doing. So most likely not and I wouldn't fault them for it.

mech9t5
Man, you must live out of the major cities.  For me, I have a lot of options for Canada Computers that are close by, one being less 5 min away, while others are between 15-30 min away and the same for BB.  For Memory Express, well that's another story since I'm not in the west coast (most of them are in the west).  The closest is about 2 hours away.  But yes, every since NCIX closed (they used to have a storefront), Canada Computers has been my go to for storefront and Newegg for online.  I found that Amazon prizes are always higher than Canada Computers and Newegg.

Yep, I do. I live in a 12K city in middle of Quebec. All the electronic stores, outside of Best Buy, are located in the Monteral region which is, like I said, a 6h drive minimum. Not even Quebec City has a Canada Computer. And, even if it did, it's still a 3h drive for me. Like, there's *nothing* here. Then, they want us to buy local.........
 
As for online, I found that the prices are all over the place. Newegg has probably the best selection. Unless you can see they are shipping from Canada, shipping's gonna get ya.
Oh, and talking about Canada Computers, I had my first order ever with them shipped today. An AIO.

Lebon14

mech9t5
Man, you must live out of the major cities.  For me, I have a lot of options for Canada Computers that are close by, one being less 5 min away, while others are between 15-30 min away and the same for BB.  For Memory Express, well that's another story since I'm not in the west coast (most of them are in the west).  The closest is about 2 hours away.  But yes, every since NCIX closed (they used to have a storefront), Canada Computers has been my go to for storefront and Newegg for online.  I found that Amazon prizes are always higher than Canada Computers and Newegg.

Yep, I do. I live in a 12K city in middle of Quebec. All the electronic stores, outside of Best Buy, are located in the Monteral region which is, like I said, a 6h drive minimum. Not even Quebec City has a Canada Computer. And, even if it did, it's still a 3h drive for me. Like, there's *nothing* here. Then, they want us to buy local.........
 
As for online, I found that the prices are all over the place. Newegg has probably the best selection. Unless you can see they are shipping from Canada, shipping's gonna get ya.
Oh, and talking about Canada Computers, I had my first order ever with them shipped today. An AIO.

Yeah, that's not good.  I feel for you. For me, I'm in the Toronto area and there are 5 Canada Computers here and 4 in the Greater Toronto Area that are relatively close.  Congrats on the AIO.
 
 

Morning and goodluck to everyone !

avacdavison
Given the reports on scarcity of GPUs through Q1, is EVGA going to extend the grandfathered prices, or are we still stuck with hoping for a card by 4/15?

I doubt they will extend it.  They've given us fair warning as to the price increase for the queue, which is a lot more than any other AIB provided their consumers.  I would not expect a reprieve from the price increase.

avacdavisonGiven the reports on scarcity of GPUs through Q1, is EVGA going to extend the grandfathered prices, or are we still stuck with hoping for a card by 4/15?

Doubtful.  It's more of a low-cost way to get brownie points from the community for "trying" while not taking much of a financial ding given the scant amount of cards being released.

mizzer
Funny, I just purchased the Steelseries Apex Pro.  I originally had the Logitech G513 Carbon.  Decent until I realized that the symbols were not backlit and the ink they used to print the symbols on the keys disappeared in low light. Not quite sure what engineer authorized that move...
 
The Apex Pro is amazing, however. The trigger point for every typical keyboard key can be adjusted.  I've already used it to prevent my fat fingers from mistyping a letter here and there.

The Apex Pro looks awesome.  I use Steel Series for my mice (650 Wireless currently) but I did not consider them for my keyboard.  I just bought a Ducky One or I would be seriously considering the Apex Pro.  Putting it on my list for next time.  Thanks for the recommendation.

enewt

mizzer
Funny, I just purchased the Steelseries Apex Pro.  I originally had the Logitech G513 Carbon.  Decent until I realized that the symbols were not backlit and the ink they used to print the symbols on the keys disappeared in low light. Not quite sure what engineer authorized that move...
 
The Apex Pro is amazing, however. The trigger point for every typical keyboard key can be adjusted.  I've already used it to prevent my fat fingers from mistyping a letter here and there.

The Apex Pro looks awesome.  I use Steel Series for my mice (650 Wireless currently) but I did not consider them for my keyboard.  I just bought a Ducky One or I would be seriously considering the Apex Pro.  Putting it on my list for next time.  Thanks for the recommendation.

Sure thing.  I don't typically get excited about keyboards, but the Apex Pro is a work of art.  Simply amazing and a joy to use.

enewt

mizzer
Funny, I just purchased the Steelseries Apex Pro.  I originally had the Logitech G513 Carbon.  Decent until I realized that the symbols were not backlit and the ink they used to print the symbols on the keys disappeared in low light. Not quite sure what engineer authorized that move...
 
The Apex Pro is amazing, however. The trigger point for every typical keyboard key can be adjusted.  I've already used it to prevent my fat fingers from mistyping a letter here and there.

The Apex Pro looks awesome.  I use Steel Series for my mice (650 Wireless currently) but I did not consider them for my keyboard.  I just bought a Ducky One or I would be seriously considering the Apex Pro.  Putting it on my list for next time.  Thanks for the recommendation.

Funny thing, I just literally came back from BB, curbside pickup, for the Corsair K100 RGB Optical-Mechanical Gaming Keyboard — CORSAIR OPX Switch.  They keys are reportedly rated for 150 million key strokes. The key switches are similar to the Razer keyboard optical switches.
 

mech9t5
 
Glad you indicated that there are several people who have an Associates Code....hint, hint...

After the whambulancemobile bit about how I "flaunt my code" and "don't really do anything to "deserve" people using it", I figured being more blatant with the fact that I'm saying USE A CODE, ANY CODE instead of highlighting just mine & ENewt's, to prove my point that it's about getting people a free fruggin' discount and not necessarily using mine, was a good approach. 
 

SyntaxTurtle

SlimmerBought a $uper duper mech keyboard to hold me over......"I'm on the list!"

I bought the EVGA Z10 brown switch keyboard from Amazon for $43 the other day.  The blue switch one is $115 and more for both types if you want adjustable RBG but the red-backlit brown-switch one must be getting cleared out or something.  Really nice solid keyboard with great build quality and the LCD screen works wonders with AIDA64 for displaying my system info.  Finally replaced my ancient G15 from 14+ years ago 

I bought one of those back in November... one of the single worst purchases I've ever made of computer hardware.  I'm used to premium keyboards, the Z10 is anything but imo.  I paid $71 for it, and I'd say at most it's worth about the same as a run of the mill walmart keyboard - Pretty sure I said in my review I'd give it 0 stars if I could.  I've never been more disappointed in an eVGA product, and it was one of my most disappointing purchases ever.  The only reason I didn't return it was, despite the extended holiday return window, the whole "returning an item I used for a month for a refund" thing when it's something like a keyboard that gets a lot of daily literally hands-on use, did not sit right with me.
I'm getting a Corsair K100 in sometime this week - that thing BETTER be LAWD HELP IT impressive for that price... snagged it for $207 instead of the MSRP of $229+, but that's still the most I've ever spent on a keyboard.  If it doesn't hit every point I expect out of a high end keyboard, it's definitely going back.
My current, decrep'ed because it is old, keyboard is an Alienware AW768 with Cheery MX Brown switches - which for the price, was one of my favorite keyboards ever.  Unfortunately, I broke one of it's legs on top of it being old & impossible to actually get clean because of it's design.  I temporarily replaced both legs with old SteelSeries mouse pad & duct tape, but yeah... it's going out to pasture, I hope.  
 

mech9t5

enewt

mizzer
Funny, I just purchased the Steelseries Apex Pro.  I originally had the Logitech G513 Carbon.  Decent until I realized that the symbols were not backlit and the ink they used to print the symbols on the keys disappeared in low light. Not quite sure what engineer authorized that move...
 
The Apex Pro is amazing, however. The trigger point for every typical keyboard key can be adjusted.  I've already used it to prevent my fat fingers from mistyping a letter here and there.

The Apex Pro looks awesome.  I use Steel Series for my mice (650 Wireless currently) but I did not consider them for my keyboard.  I just bought a Ducky One or I would be seriously considering the Apex Pro.  Putting it on my list for next time.  Thanks for the recommendation.

Funny thing, I just literally came back from BB, curbside pickup, for the Corsair K100 RGB Optical-Mechanical Gaming Keyboard — CORSAIR OPX Switch.  They keys are reportedly rated for 150 million key strokes. The key switches are similar to the Razer keyboard optical switches.

'eeeeeeeey twinsies lol

Makes it hard to curse effectively. 😁🤬😂