ApexAZ
 I can't be loyal to a brand whose products I have been unsuccessful obtaining over almost 2 years.  I would *love* to be brand loyal, but I can't find a card to enable that.
 
I get the concept and don't even necessarily disagree with it.  It just doesn't work when you can't reach the majority of your customers with the products.  As someone who has been unsuccessful, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.  That's valid feedback for EVGA.

if you make 93 more posts, you will then be "Elite"

gsrcrxsi
 
if you make 93 more posts, you will then be "Elite"

 
Workin' on it.  I don't know what else I'm supposed to post about, so here we have it.
 
Then, if I don't have a card before the next product launch, maybe I'll be able to get closer to the front of the line.

ApexAZ
 I can't be loyal to a brand whose products I have been unsuccessful obtaining over almost 2 years.  I would *love* to be brand loyal, but I can't find a card to enable that.
 
I get the concept and don't even necessarily disagree with it.  It just doesn't work when you can't reach the majority of your customers with the products.  As someone who has been unsuccessful, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.  That's valid feedback for EVGA.

I got three 30 series cards this year already, and a fourth possibly in the next month. I think you need to read the forums more and stay up to date regarding launch days and how to snipe cards on them. It's extremely competitive, so people getting cards have to try harder.

DerpMagoo
 
 
I got three 30 series cards this year already, and a fourth possibly in the next month. I think you need to read the forums more and stay up to date regarding launch days and how to snipe cards on them. It's extremely competitive, so people getting cards have to try harder.

 
Why do you need 4 cards?
 
I've been in the queue for the 3080 since like late September/early oct (I don't remember the exact date).  They have sent a few emails saying they've rolled me into new queues for updated sku's.  That's all I've gotten from them.
 
I spent way more time on best buy and newegg than I care to admit.  It's the most aggravating process I've ever dealt with and I gave up.

ObscureEmpyre
 
I'm still not sure where you're pulling this 2 years number from. It's been a bit over a year. And, "unfair to give someone an advantage over someone else simply because they were lucky?" Some of us have been Elite members since the beginning of the Elite program, which predates the pandemic and the supply shortage, and we spent good money on the qualifying products to become Elite members. That had nothing to do with luck. Also, some of us old-school Elites are salty with how easy it's become to become a member and even saltier about the wheel spin that netted only new Elite members up to a 40% discount. EVGA has since discontinued the use of the wheel spin discount for GPUs, but that didn't stop people from buying RTX 3090 K|ngp|n Editions using it.

 
I've been in the EVGA queue for close to a year now, but I had been looking for graphics cards for almost 2 years.  I apologize for conflating those things.  As someone pointed out earlier, this has been ongoing for a while now, it's just now reaching critical mass.  Part of it was just the timing of the launch of the 3080 and the pandemic, but it seems like most are in agreement that capacity issues have been apparent for several years now.  While no one could have predicted the pandemic, someone (anyone) could have predicted that the supply chain was getting to be too fragile and any sort of catastrophe could have a major impact.
 
Anyway, to put it simply, I've been in the market for a new card for ~2 years.  I'm still using a GTX1080.  The timing of everything just made it not work out.
 

ObscureEmpyre

I understand your frustration. Most of us here do, but you need to be on the ball with GPU-hunting if you really want a new one, and you can’t just rely on EVGA’s queue. Most of us here prefer EVGA, but it’s not as though it’s the only GPU company in existence or the only company selling them. There’s Best Buy, Micro Center, Newegg, and other retailers/resellers that operate both online and at physical locations.



 
Dealing with Bestbuy has been absolutely miserable.  I've heard people successfully find them at Microcenter, but we don't have those here, unfortunately.
 
Newegg seems to have very few 3080ti that aren't bundled with some other piece of hardware I don't really want or need.

ApexAZ

ObscureEmpyre

I understand your frustration. Most of us here do, but you need to be on the ball with GPU-hunting if you really want a new one, and you can’t just rely on EVGA’s queue. Most of us here prefer EVGA, but it’s not as though it’s the only GPU company in existence or the only company selling them. There’s Best Buy, Micro Center, Newegg, and other retailers/resellers that operate both online and at physical locations.

 
Dealing with Bestbuy has been absolutely miserable.  I've heard people successfully find them at Microcenter, but we don't have those here, unfortunately.
 
Newegg seems to have very few 3080ti that aren't bundled with some other piece of hardware I don't really want or need.


Yeah, that's Newegg's shuffle for ya. I had to buy a PSU with each of the two GPUs I got through the shuffle. One's actually decent, the 850 G3 80+ Gold from EVGA that I'll likely use in the future, and the other one's pretty much a $60 paperweight. It's also an EVGA PSU, the 700 BQ 80+ Bronze. It's not horrible, just that it wouldn't be enough for any of my systems. At least the GPUs were the same price as what EVGA sells them for.

ApexAZ
Sorry, I've been on the wait list about a year, but the shortage is about 2 years. 
 
Nonetheless, they need to sort it out.

No worries.  I know exactly what you meant.  You've been waiting for a GPU since. 
 
For those that didn't know, 20 series was pretty bad but not THIS bad.  Even 10 series had issues as well.

ApexAZ

ObscureEmpyre
 
Yeah, that's Newegg's shuffle for ya. I had to buy a PSU with each of the two GPUs I got through the shuffle. One's actually decent, the 850 G3 80+ Gold from EVGA that I'll likely use in the future, and the other one's pretty much a $60 paperweight. 

 
I will freely admit I am also a contributor to my lack of success by being unwilling to compromise in this regard.  I don't really want to support newegg for forcing me to buy things I don't want.  It's unfortunate, because I nearly exclusively shopped through them up to this point for probably close to two decades.

It’s not the same Newegg it was years ago. That’s for sure. Word on the street is they sold to some Chinese company, and that’s why it’s been lacking in recent years. As far as unwilling to compromise goes, that’s why I only signed up for cards that came with at least somewhat usable items. Sure beats paying 2-3x the price of a card. And, see? We’re having a conversation. Have a few more of these over the next few days, and you’ll be an Elite member in no time.

Really though ApexAZ, at the moment, the best way (annoying as it may be) is the shuffle, and like Obscure said, if you don't see a combo you can deal with, don't enter. I've snaged a 3070ti, 3080, and 3090 through the Shuffle. The 3070ti was for my brother, the 3080 was for a friend, and the 3090 resides in my system :)

For those that keep posting the false information that 100 posts were recently added to the site program, please stop saying that. The 100 post requirement has been around for years, and was around when the 1080ti shroud came in different colors and people were rushing to 100 posts to choose the color they wanted. That was back with the 1080ti, and the elite status was unlocked by already registered products or 100 posts back then. The 100 post count requirement has been around for near 5 years now.

The only * RECENT* change was the addition of twitch points and the ability to get 24 hour access to the queue before others.

Here is a 2017 article about those elite shrouds: https://fudzilla.com/news...c2-ftw3-elite-versions

As a moderator I can see posts that go as far back a 2018 that were labeled “get your elite status posts to 100 here: post 1-100 and gain your status.

Posting is not new, and people need to stop saying it was recently added. It wasn’t, it was introduced back before the elite shrouds even existed.

Lordred

rjbarker
Most of us enthusiasts stayed away from Titan variants due to the unnecessary amount of VRAM, lack of performance gains or minimal performance gains vs Ti Cards and once again stupidly high pricing.
 

I agree with the Turing based Titans, but lots of enthusiasts mobbed to the Titan(s) during the Fermi/Maxwell/Pascel days I myself own a Fermi and Maxwell Titan.

Remember the 7xxx Series.....a bunch of folks dove all over the 780 Titan at a crazy high price when released as they were in a class of there own vs the 780.....then the 780Ti came out after at a wayyyy lower price with very close to equal performance.....I recall all the wining on here back then (there was a fair bit....how could nv do that to us..yep!
 
I ran SLi 780Ti's under water right thru to 1080Ti.s (980's were not worth the upgrade from 780Ti)
 
That 7xxx series Titan followed by launching 780Ti is very similar to now with the 3090's launching followed by 3080Ti's ....3080Ti's cheaper and close to the same performance.
There was definitely a niche I suppose for the Titans but the price was far too crazy for even myself back then....
 
Got to hand it to nv and their brilliant Marketers focused on bottom line$

rjbarker

Lordred

rjbarker
Most of us enthusiasts stayed away from Titan variants due to the unnecessary amount of VRAM, lack of performance gains or minimal performance gains vs Ti Cards and once again stupidly high pricing.
 

I agree with the Turing based Titans, but lots of enthusiasts mobbed to the Titan(s) during the Fermi/Maxwell/Pascel days I myself own a Fermi and Maxwell Titan.

Remember the 7xxx Series.....a bunch of folks dove all over the 780 Titan at a crazy high price when released as they were in a class of there own vs the 780.....then the 780Ti came out after at a wayyyy lower price with very close to equal performance.....I recall all the wining on here back then (there was a fair bit....how could nv do that to us..yep!
 
I ran SLi 780Ti's under water right thru to 1080Ti.s (980's were not worth the upgrade from 780Ti)
 
That 7xxx series Titan followed by launching 780Ti is very similar to now with the 3090's launching followed by 3080Ti's ....3080Ti's cheaper and close to the same performance.
There was definitely a niche I suppose for the Titans but the price was far too crazy for even myself back then....
 
Got to hand it to nv and their brilliant Marketers focused on bottom line$

I remember the 700 series quite well.  I purchased the 780 Hydro Copper Classified during it's August launch iirc, can't remember what year and literally less than 4 months later or so, the 780 Ti pops up.  People went bananas...I mean I did but EVGA was really nice enough to setup a promotion for those to step up to a base 780 Ti on air but I found it hard to go from a 780 HC Classy to a base aircooled 780 Ti.  All it was iirc was double the ram.  3 GB to 6 GB  It wasn't worth the trouble as I would have had to spend more to get a WB on top of paying a small difference since the HC Classys weren't cheap.
 
Good ol times 

While it’s not that hard to make 100 posts since it only takes like a little over three a day for a month to hit it. Or you can do a few every now and then for a couple months. It shouldn’t stress anyone out or be something that people feel they need to spam to hit.

As for new product launches it’s best to fallow EVGA on social media. They normally post when a product will launch and of course after it gets announced on Twitter and Facebook it will be posted by members on these forums.

Finally if a product launches that a large number of people are interested in the site might crash. Just keep in mind that it’s down for everyone. People will give up and the site will regain stability and be back up. Even if it’s been ten or fifteen minutes you still might be one of the first people on the lists to get the site to load.

Finally if you haven’t ever signed up for a queue it’s just the “auto notify” button. It’s not going to be a the “add to cart” button. You will get an email when it’s your turn with a window of time when it’s reserved for you to make the purchase. You don’t need to be in a rush as long as you check your email occasionally during the day. During checkout you can use associate codes or Elite wheel code if you have a valid one.

rjbarker

GTXJackBauer

rjbarker

Lordred

rjbarker
Most of us enthusiasts stayed away from Titan variants due to the unnecessary amount of VRAM, lack of performance gains or minimal performance gains vs Ti Cards and once again stupidly high pricing.
 

I agree with the Turing based Titans, but lots of enthusiasts mobbed to the Titan(s) during the Fermi/Maxwell/Pascel days I myself own a Fermi and Maxwell Titan.

Remember the 7xxx Series.....a bunch of folks dove all over the 780 Titan at a crazy high price when released as they were in a class of there own vs the 780.....then the 780Ti came out after at a wayyyy lower price with very close to equal performance.....I recall all the wining on here back then (there was a fair bit....how could nv do that to us..yep!
 
I ran SLi 780Ti's under water right thru to 1080Ti.s (980's were not worth the upgrade from 780Ti)
 
That 7xxx series Titan followed by launching 780Ti is very similar to now with the 3090's launching followed by 3080Ti's ....3080Ti's cheaper and close to the same performance.
There was definitely a niche I suppose for the Titans but the price was far too crazy for even myself back then....
 
Got to hand it to nv and their brilliant Marketers focused on bottom line$

I remember the 700 series quite well.  I purchased the 780 Hydro Copper Classified during it's August launch iirc, can't remember what year and literally less than 4 months later or so, the 780 Ti pops up.  People went bananas...I mean I did but EVGA was really nice enough to setup a promotion for those to step up to a base 780 Ti on air but I found it hard to go from a 780 HC Classy to a base aircooled 780 Ti.  All it was iirc was double the ram.  3 GB to 6 GB  It wasn't worth the trouble as I would have had to spend more to get a WB on top of paying a small difference since the HC Classys weren't cheap.
 
Good ol times 

Really good times....think I had 680 Classys Sli when the 780 launched...n was on the fence just about dropping the ball on a very expensive 780 Titan Black....then Ti came out so grabbed 2 and 2 EK Blocks.....I just recall how upset everyone that had purchased Titan Blacks were whe Ti's were so much cheaper.....
I wish things were as simple now as they were then....Vanilla - SC - SSC - FTW ;)

Yup lol  We surely have come along way.