which way should i go with to get the quickest, will all preorders go out on there release day and do they usually charge your card now or when they ship?

Chances are the pre-order queue at Amazon is a mile long..  I'd do both..  Pre-order it now where you can and if you can get it someplace else, cancel your pre-order and then order someplace else.

I would only pre-order from a place that doesn't tie up your funds or make it difficult to cancel your order.  Amazon is one such place, unfortunately they have a horrible track record of actually fulfilling high demand pre-orders like this, at least for me.  Other retailers may actually lock you in and make it impossible to cancel quickly, so I'd avoid those places, I believe ZZF is one of those.

I personally don't like being locked in because when these actually come in stock, they're all going to get them simultaneously and when that happens, I want the flexibility to order from the site that has the best prices, best bundle, best shipping speed etc.  With shipping, Newegg and TD are far better in that regard than some of the others like EVGA, Mwave, ZZF, sometimes Amazon are all West Coast so the cheapest shipping method (Ground) takes much longer to get to me on the EC.

I pre-ordered from Fry's
http://www.frys.com/produ...sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
They technically don't charge you but put an authorization on your CC.
Their estimated ship date is the 14th, so that should give you some time to try other places and keep fry's as a back up

haha, hmm.. what kind of pre-authrization, do they hold the money, fry's is where i was goiing to get it from, maybe just do the newegg thing, take my chances, make sure im ready haha

Frys actually put the full amount of authorization. I guess it sucks, I'm just going to avoid using my CC so I have space to order it on newegg if I get lucky

As far as the Amazon delivery estimates, those are usually very inaccurate and I always receive my products way ahead of that window.
Just something I've noticed with them.
Although Chizow, you say a mass-order like this has not been a good experience for you with them?

eikast

Frys actually put the full amount of authorization. I guess it sucks, I'm just going to avoid using my CC so I have space to order it on newegg if I get lucky

..Daamn..Glad I had the money there..I thought they didnt charge till hipped and was using them as a backup in case I missed newegg..Oh well,now I have my 2 locked up.1 with Evga,1 with Frys..gonna be a long couple of weeks..

sirjamesddj

As far as the Amazon delivery estimates, those are usually very inaccurate and I always receive my products way ahead of that window.
Just something I've noticed with them.
Although Chizow, you say a mass-order like this has not been a good experience for you with them?

Yeah latest experience with that was with the Intel G2 drives, Amazon had them at near MSRP with an estimated ship of 2-4 weeks.....back then MSRP was $230 for the 80GB and $440 for the 160GB.  I ordered the 160GB as soon as it popped up middle of September, but it never shipped, even after a month passed.  In the meantime, price was getting gouged all over the place, $300+ at most places for the 80GB and $500-600 for the 160GB.  Luckily I caught a Newegg Cyber Monday twitter sale....they "dropped" the price like $150 to $430 or something, then I got another 10% BCB off of that so i got it for $360 or something.