kindji3

gravedigger78
I wish they would have spent a month or 2 building inventory before launching the card. It seems like it is harder to snag one by trickling the inventory instead of just releasing giant batches.

There’s nothing stopping you from waiting two months until stock has built up. 🙂

Of course I can wait also but I’m ready to buy and build now. Would be nice to know when to start looking again instead of wasting my time looking or searching for info everyday. It’s not an efficient way of doing this. If I could simply place an order even knowing they aren’t in stock yet at least they could give me an estimated arrival time and I would just wait for it to arrive. But now I have to be on the hunt everyday not knowing if I’m wasting my time because it’ll be months or it could be days. We have no way of knowing. They know the info, the control the supply chain and know when their factories have produced the cards and when they will get them.

Looking at these 3090 gaming benchmarks is annoying, ~10% performance over the 3080. Was EVGA right to make a kingpin out of the 3090 and not the 3080? In that case why did they make a 2080ti KP and not a Titan KP last generation?

That was awesome. Got to add another card to my cart only to have bots kick me out and out of stock again when i finally load back in.. thanks EVGA!!!
 
I can't do this anymore. If EVGA doesn't care enough about us to do some actual bot protection i'm not gonna waste my time trying so hard to get an EVGA card every time I upgrade or my family upgrades. This is twice now I've spent hours waiting for one to show up, add it to my card, and the bots kick me. I'm out.

Same i tried to refresh hourly as i do now and the site didnt come up, it jist gave 'error connecting to evga mainsite' then later a server is down error. Musta had a card or two for a split second and got sacked

If ya manage to get one stuck in cart.. dont remove till the next time ya see them back in stock..then just check out.

Crismac1
I got in saw 2 green buttons clicked on one got kicked out. I could swear I heard someone laughing at me in the speakers. It was just the wife.

Your wife's been replaced with a sentient bot!

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-rog-strix-oc-and-evga-ftw3-ultra-geforce-rtx-3090-to-cost-1799-usd
 
If these prices are legitimate then 300 dollar premium is a bit more steep than I expected, ouch.

So, 3090 is only a slight bump in performance from the 3080, and it's gonna be priced $300 more than the FE?
 
That's absolutely absurd. The whole 8K60fps thing had me thinking that the card was gonna be massively more capable than the other two offerings. But $1500 minimum for a 10% jump? No. Hard pass. I'll wait for the notification for the 3080. Hopefully, they'll pop up before the StepUp window ends.

jWILL253
So, 3090 is only a slight bump in performance from the 3080, and it's gonna be priced $300 more than the FE?
 
That's absolutely absurd. The whole 8K60fps thing had me thinking that the card was gonna be massively more capable than the other two offerings. But $1500 minimum for a 10% jump? No. Hard pass. I'll wait for the notification for the 3080. Hopefully, they'll pop up before the StepUp window ends.

15%-20%. There's one leaked bench showing 10% (from a chinese lab that's reportedly faked numbers before) while nearly a dozen leaked and one confirmed show 15%-20% (basically a "one of these things is not like the others") situation. The FTW3 Ultra should shake out to a few percentage points above that.

You're also comparing the highest end 3090 to the FE, instead of the XC3 black which is priced $20 above FE.

Methinks your confirmation bias might be running unchecked.

mistermister

AHowes
If ya manage to get one stuck in cart.. dont remove till the next time ya see them back in stock..then just check out.

AHowes
If ya manage to get one stuck in cart.. dont remove till the next time ya see them back in stock..then just check out.

Assuming this would work,  its a 300 level IQ move. 

It does. You keep it in cart it shows up as 99999$ of price up to the point where it gets back in stock. then check out and youre done. But i already got mine on backorder at a etailer over here in germany. Bad thing for people now is that the prices on etailers start to rise. i paid 870€ last week for the FTW3 Ultra Gaming including shipment. The prices are now up to 949€ without shipment

cstarkey42

MrMichaelJames

kindji3

gravedigger78
I wish they would have spent a month or 2 building inventory before launching the card. It seems like it is harder to snag one by trickling the inventory instead of just releasing giant batches.

There’s nothing stopping you from waiting two months until stock has built up. 🙂

Of course I can wait also but I’m ready to buy and build now. Would be nice to know when to start looking again instead of wasting my time looking or searching for info everyday. It’s not an efficient way of doing this. If I could simply place an order even knowing they aren’t in stock yet at least they could give me an estimated arrival time and I would just wait for it to arrive. But now I have to be on the hunt everyday not knowing if I’m wasting my time because it’ll be months or it could be days. We have no way of knowing. They know the info, the control the supply chain and know when their factories have produced the cards and when they will get them.

Exactly.  I'd rather pre-order and know I have to wait a month or two to get it then to deal with this nonsense.  Not only would it save their customers time and provide us with answers but it would be an easy way to deal with the bot problem.  Nvidia thinks their way is building excitement and anticipation but all it's doing is rubbing everyone the wrong way.  As soon as another company comes up with an alternative, and another company will, eventually, come up with something that competes, Nvidia is not going to have any customer loyalty left and it's going to be their own fault.  Until then we're stuck with AMD being a distant second option...

knowing i'll be doing this everyday trying for a 3090 (my expectations are zero by the way) sucks!!!

Guydodge1021
have always bought evga cards but the red and RGB involved in this one is almost to much
anyone know can you turn it off change colors or is it strictly unicorn barf 
please tell me you can at least set to a solid color.

I just built a new computer a couple days ago for the 3080. I have never done the rgb business before and I am not a fan. I might see if I can just do a static color or maybe the evga card can sync with the gigabyte fusion stuff. 
I definitely agree it is unicorn barf

Can someone explain the difference between the XC3 Gaming and XC3 Ultra? Just slightly higher clocks out of the box? Is the silicon quality better on the Ultra then? Also is the only difference between the XC3 Black and XC3 Gaming the backplate?
 
Edit: Also can you step up from an XC3 Gaming/Ultra/Black to a FTW3 Hybrid or XC3 Hybrid?

Flonkam

Windorf702
I feel like they didn't for the titan because it wasn't economical. They knew that the titan was truly a niche card.

The 3090 is truly a niche card. And I don't see any reason to believe that it won't sell even more poorly than the 2080 Ti. The 2080 Ti had a significantly higher performance increase over the next-lowest card (and that's saying something) at a significantly lower relative and absolute price.

There aren't a lot of them that will be produced and they're going to sell out. The demand for them will, at this point, with near 100% certainty based on what we now know, be more than NVidia had projected them to be. Which is a good place for NVidia to be (better to have a bit less supply than demand rather than the other way around).