Dabadger84

enewt

bradsour
I actually think it's quite the opposite. The FTW3 was dumbed down from previous gens. It sets the K|ngP|n that much further apart. 

I hope you're right.  I think the jury is still out.

I personally think it's a mix of both.  People are getting impressive numbers out of those cards that are showing to be good performers from the Kingpins, the FTW3s are definitely less "stellar" compared to their previous-gen counterparts - GamersNexus/Buildzoid's PCB review basically said the FTW3 PCB isn't that different from other AIB partner model boards, normally the FTW3 is pretty advanced and the gaps between the Kingpin & FTW3 are typically "more" of the good stuff, and more access to settings... this time around, the Kingpin has "all" the good stuff, FTW3 has very little...
 
Having said that, I'm still very impressed with what my card can do so far, but apparently it's a bit of an outlier, the majority of folks are not seeing the power draw limits or clocks that I've seen - I actually may have gotten a golden chip for once, which is going to make deciding between it & the Kingpin interesting, depending on how easily I can hit that sweet 2200MHz OC on the KP.  Hoping I get lucky one more time & get a decent clocker on that as well, then this 3090 Hybrid can go to (hopefully) a good home :-P lol
 
We'll see, I'm hoping we get a big drop of all Hybrid types tomorrow since none of any kind dropped today - Likely it'll be the case!

enewt
JacobF just corrected himself.  The Kingpin is dropping today!!!
 

EVGA_JacobF
One more: 24G-P5-3998-KR

 
As a reminder, here is today's queue:
 
             Forum Tag                   Time
1            Eisner                          12/16/2020 9:13:07
2            jspoon44                      12/16/2020 9:13:12
3            _Gir_                           12/16/2020 9:13:45
4            rjrusso                         12/16/2020 9:13:59
5            imweasel                      12/16/2020 9:14:00
6            jwenta123                    12/16/2020 9:14:02
7            jhfct                             12/16/2020 9:14:05
8            jennerl                         12/16/2020 9:14:09
9            pangcixxixi                   12/16/2020 9:14:12
10          holyhyperion                 12/16/2020 9:14:37
11          jdcarpe                         12/16/2020 9:14:41
12          pclausen                       12/16/2020 9:14:47
13          SuperGlacticLover          12/16/2020 9:15:00
14          JMan604                       12/16/2020 9:15:10
15          wmuschetto                  12/16/2020 9:15:11
16          ay455                           12/16/2020 9:15:13
17          usafrcd                         12/16/2020 9:15:20
18          rblaes_99                      12/16/2020 9:15:24
19          brohemia                      12/16/2020 9:15:27
20          ccb2986                       12/16/2020 9:15:35
21          Merzeh                         12/16/2020 9:15:59

Good luck today!
 

bradsour
 
What have you been able to push your 3080 to? I've been able to push to a +180 clock hitting a max 2165 in PR, averaging 2144. I can definitely see why people do custom loops, frees up that much more power for the GPU to use. I've got a push pull on my hybrid AIO, with all the fans running off the mobo. My memory is where my card lacks. I've seen others easily push their cards to +1000, but mine maxes out at +650 (both with air and AIO) before my PR scores start to degrade.

jennerl
Guessing that's it for the day...been 30 minutes since today #1 slot got it and I'm "8th" (I realize this list is not by any means accurate) and no email.
 
Perhaps when Jacob said 1 more he literally meant 1 more...but it's more likely that these lists only show a fraction of the actual purchases that took place at that time and we are much "deeper" than it seems.

jennerl
Guessing that's it for the day...been 30 minutes since today #1 slot got it and I'm "8th" (I realize this list is not by any means accurate) and no email.
 
Perhaps when Jacob said 1 more he literally meant 1 more...but it's more likely that these lists only show a fraction of the actual purchases that took place at that time and we are much "deeper" than it seems.

jennerl
What am I misunderstanding about the "drops?"
Does EVGA ship as the supply trickles into them, or are they sitting on XXX amount and only choose to ship out a few cards per day?

jennerl

Dabadger84
 
In the case of the Kingpin card specifically I'm sure the process takes a bit longer than any other card, because they are supposed to be "binned" meaning only the top 1-10% or so of 3090 chiplets get put in to Kingpin boards (this is something Vince has said directly, and I don't think he has any reason to lie that the Kingpin GPU dies are binned) 

LOL! The binning process to make the Kingpin card would take place in the factory in china long before it ever got to CA for retail shipment distribution. Binning has nothing to do with these drops.
 
There is a bit of noise in other threads about several people bricking the LCD display on the Kingpin via firmware update. They got they RMAs sent out rather quickly (like next day). So quick that I am thinking they ate into this batch... 

jennerl

Dabadger84
 
In the case of the Kingpin card specifically I'm sure the process takes a bit longer than any other card, because they are supposed to be "binned" meaning only the top 1-10% or so of 3090 chiplets get put in to Kingpin boards (this is something Vince has said directly, and I don't think he has any reason to lie that the Kingpin GPU dies are binned) 

LOL! The binning process to make the Kingpin card would take place in the factory in china long before it ever got to CA for retail shipment distribution. Binning has nothing to do with these drops.
 
There is a bit of noise in other threads about several people bricking the LCD display on the Kingpin via firmware update. They got they RMAs sent out rather quickly (like next day). So quick that I am thinking they ate into this batch... 

jennerl
I was trying to understand if they trickle them out on purpose or because of some internal capacity ie number of workers or truck/dock space available for X amount of TOTAL shipments of all different products on a single business day or if there are cards literally arriving to them today, and being made ready to ship tomorrow and that's what triggers the bursts of emails one day and none the next. 

Dabadger84
I'd wager the big dropolas will be spread out for sure throughout the week of January 5th. They'd overload their UPS people otherwise, since we're likely talking about (at least) hundreds of units by that point, using just the Kingpin original queue & second queue being over 200 units shipped in less than 2 weeks.

Would not be surprised if that actual number of cards stacked up by the 5th is in the medium 4 digits, keeping in mind they have so so many skus to fill, which are typically spread out throughout the week, but will be all piled up before they reopen fully.

We'll see. I'm still hoping we get some decent drops tomorrow. Not expecting my Wednesday, though I'll be watching it like a hawk just in case to insure mine ships before 2pm if I do get the noti.