Dabadger84
There's a zero percent chance eVGA is wasting revenue on these cards doing air-freight - they come via ship, I'd be willing to bet on that.  The volume of sales isn't high enough to justify air freight, regardless of how much profit they make per card, especially right now with how the market is where they barely have enough supply anyway.
 
That's one thing I think people keep forgetting during this shortage/price gouging/scalping era - the GPU AIB makers themselves, like eVGA, are not getting the supply they normally would - this means their profit margin, even if it's the same per card, is going to be probably significantly less than what they would normally get for a new generation of cards.  Between the vRAM Chiplet shortage increasing prices on those, the GPU die shortage causing them to probably have PCBs that are literally waiting on a GPU die, and the tariff exemption ending, all of these GPU AIBs are getting hit with negatives from all directions.
 
It is not a good time for the industry as a whole, would be my guess.  The only companies making out decently well would be NVidia themselves & AMD themselves, if you think about it, because both of them have direct-sales to places like Best Buy (and miners and corps) in the case of NVidia, and places like Sony & Microsoft (for Playstation & Xbox), among others, for AMD - so chances are out of everyone, AMD & NVidia themselves are hurting the least, with smaller companies like eVGA or XFX, that only make ONE brand of cards (NVidia or AMD, but not both) hurting the most.

mech9t5
@ lifeisshort117, A little bit off topic, but out of curiosity, do you own the Liquid Haus youtube?

lifeisshort117

mech9t5
@ lifeisshort117, A little bit off topic, but out of curiosity, do you own the Liquid Haus youtube?

Yes, this is just my old EVGA account since it’s an Elite membership lol

Zeddivile
@OP who listens to their bones? hehe I try to ignore even the voice in my head.
 
Anyhoo
 
seems like Mid February to mid march is a good Time to SLI 
 
24G-P5-3998-KR2/1/2021 5:56:16 PM PTNo
 

enewt

mech9t5
 
Good luck with getting another Kingpin.  As far as I know, purchasing any card is limited to one per sku per household.  Maybe it will work out for you.

I think he is betting that by the time the queue reaches him again on Feb 1, the KPE Hybrid queue will be essentially exhausted and that EVGA will open it up to a second card.  I am not sure he is right, but it takes just a few seconds to register and it is not a bad bet.

sparetimepc

mech9t5

Zeddivile
@OP who listens to their bones? hehe I try to ignore even the voice in my head.
 
Anyhoo
 
seems like Mid February to mid march is a good Time to SLI 
 
24G-P5-3998-KR2/1/2021 5:56:16 PM PTNo
 

Good luck with getting another Kingpin.  As far as I know, purchasing any card is limited to one per sku per household.  Maybe it will work out for you.

Where does it say he already has one? I'm on mobile so maybe it's showing in the signature his specs. But then it's zeddi so chances are he does because he's always got the best to play with.

lifeisshort117
 
That's great to hear! I'm glad I was able to help ya out! Fingers crossed the Kingpin HC block will be readily available for those who've picked up the Hybrid. 
 

mech9t5
 
For me I'm hoping everyday that there will be drops and I think we all are since we logged in everyday lol

RuneZero
24G-P5-3998-KR    2/4/2021 5:42:53 AM PT

lifeisshort117
For those who currently have Kingpin's, could you share your Timespy scores by chance?
 
I scored 19,253 (https://www.3dmark.com/spy/17388593) and I was giving the FTW3 as good of an OC as I could while still trying to manage temps since it was aircooled.