Hi JacobF, (or anyone else at EVGA with insight)
 
I am curious about the outlook of my specific situation. I am waiting to build my gaming PC for the first time by myself. I had zero idea I would be in the situation I'm in now, and ordered all my parts about a week before the 3080 launch. I'm sure none of you folks saw this coming either. I have all my PC components sitting here just waiting for a GPU. I was beyond excited, but that excitement is quickly dying. I'm sure I am not alone in this situation. My main concern however is this: I can't sit here all day everyday hours on end refreshing pages just to be heartbroken time after time after time and see these things go on Ebay. I know it's not your fault. I KNOW you guys are doing this best you can, and I can't fault you when your all trying so hard. I actually applaud you for your commitment to keeping your fans and customers informed. My dad adored EVGA, and up until he passed away in 2017, he always built our gaming PCs with EVGA parts (software too like precision!). He was an absolute die hard fan, which sort of rubbed off lol. I actually remember my very first gpu was a TNT2 (I think thats what it was called). We've come a long long way since...and I've never seen the PC market like this before. It's mind blowing. 
 
Anyways, back to my point. I had a stroke a couple years ago. I get exhausted very easily (I actually sold my 2017 Harley Low Rider-S to build this gaming PC in fact, because I can no longer ride). I have kinda gotten discouraged however, to the point where I want to send these parts back. It's turned from excitement and happiness, to stress and sadness. I've never seen this much madness and selfishness (bots/scalpers/etc..) over a graphics card. I got blindsided for sure. I'm sure none of you folks at EVGA saw this coming either.
 
Bottom line... will I realistically be able to acquire one of these EVGA 3080s before Christmas?
 
I feel like this is a race, in favor of those who can type their payment info in the fastest. I will undoubtedly lose, even if the site was 100% stable. What worries me now, is that with Christmas coming soon it feels like this is going to get even harder than it is now. I just cannot stay up and sit here all hours of the day waiting. My body doesn't have the strength. I envy those that do! If I could sit here all day I would! My gaming sessions are even limited to about 45 mins before I have to get up and move, at least for a little bit.
 
I've heard alot of people say "just wait until AMD releases big navi and get their GPU.", but I have never owned an AMD card and that would definitely be settling. I can only afford one card, and very much hope to purchase an EVGA model 3080...so I ask; is any hope in sight?
I don't want this to be all for nothing. I see how fast they sell out (within seconds, literally) and I KNOW I will never be able to go as fast as the vast majority of people. Even with my best "fast checkout" bet like Amazon and their one click buy button I seem to lose. Alot of times I even have to retype my password in during checkout even if it shows me as logged in. I can't catch a break lol. I am slow  Gimme some hope if you can! Thanks!
 
If you take the time to read this, I really appreciate you and what you do for the community.

One thing you could do, if your computer has no GPU, is buy something like an RTX 2070 super, then use EVGA's step up system found here: https://www.evga.com/support/stepup/ to upgrade it to a RTX 3080.
 
While the queue may take a good while to get through, and have a 3080 sent to you, you'd at least have a GPU in your system that could be used for a few months, and wouldn't have to worry about constant refreshing of a bunch of different websites either.

The queue for the step up program has to be so long by now. I hesitate because I'm worried 3080s will become widely available but I'll still be waiting in the queue.

Just now I actually tried to find a 2080. Then I tried a 2070. Then I tried a 2060. It seems even those older cards are sold out on EVGA and alot of other places too  so the step up program may not even be viable. What sites I did see that had a few 2080s, they are just as expensive or in some cases MORE expensive than the new ones which is very strange to me. And these are very limited too it seems, which tells me there is a LOT of people that went with the step up program.
 
Ah well..I guess i'll continue to hold out hope for better news. Cheers everyone.

The 2060's have been trickling in to EVGA's site, they will last about a day or 2 before they are bought up. I would keep trying.

EVGA_JacobF
Hi there, thanks for reaching out. We have a lot more stock incoming and I am pretty confident you will be able to find one before Christmas and likely much sooner than that.

 
Wow thank you SO much for responding! You've given me a little hope now and that was enough to brighten my day in more ways than you can imagine! Gaming is all I've got, so thank you!

Sounds like massive shipment(s) will be here several times before the end of the year.  

That sounds like it will be a great rig! I think assembling it is a great idea. As kougar said, the onboard video out will be functional while you test the system.
 
... I just reread the specs. You have 3 TB worth of SSD storage? Friggin' sweet.

Zeddikus_Rahl

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That sounds like it will be a great rig! I think assembling it is a great idea. As kougar said, the onboard video out will be functional while you test the system.
 
... I just reread the specs. You have 3 TB worth of SSD storage? Friggin' sweet.

Well I did go all out with permission from my wife of course. But I sold my Harley...so I went big. And also I hate uninstalling games to make space so I had to go big on storage too of course.

Gaming is my only escape now. Gotta love life while ya can. My board came yesterday. My antistatic pad came today. I think I'm ready.

Also thanks for the advice. I completely forgot intel CPUs have integrated graphics. Might as well make sure I don't have any dead parts!

When I was younger (probably in the era of 800mhz cpus) my father finished both our PCs. I was ready to jump on Everquest and game all night when there was some sort of malfunction (i cant recall now which part) and a wire caught fire. Smoke everywhere. Needless to say we had to RMA whatever part that was and it sucked having to wait while he gamed that night lol. I'd hate to wait and build my pc after I get the GPU and have problems and then have to wait. I'd be that little boy all over again. Once was enough lmao.

 
If that's your hobby, then so much the better to get a move on it! I had a new PSU dump the magic smoke years ago. It's such a downer when that happens, so I feel ya.
 
EverQuest... that's a game I haven't seriously thought about in ages. Those were the days--my original MMO.