DanChiarelli

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phillg22
Is it still worth it to get an EVGA card to enter the set up queue? I don't want to wait until Q1 2021 for the card...

Step up queue is getting little to no attention. If you enter the step up right now, I wouldn't doubt it if its Q2 2021 before you get a card.

you will be waiting longer than that, trust me this will be my first and last evga step up

Good, more for the less impatient.

not impatient, just frustrated. I joined a week after launch. I join the queue thinking I might get it November maybe December....then it started looking like January. Then I get my hands on the ftw3 3080 on newegg. Now I'm thinking I will just resell the card for msrp. Its looking like February or March now. Which means I might have to take a loss. I have to wait half a year? The hell with that lesson learned. The queue is getting slower as time goes along. We are going on 60 days since launch and they just got done with the first hour. I can honestly say wouldn't recommended this queue and would be willing to help anyone get a 3080 from other manufacturers at a lesser price

Congrats, I joined day of and still haven't gotten any word.
I've really never been one to simp for a company but holy **** this thread needs a Xanax or something.
If you wanna look a gift horse in the mouth, be my guest.
Buy an asus 3080 for full price and get pissy when the 3080Ti rolls out in two months and there's no option to step up your $780 or $800 card to a $1000 card for like 200.
But you'd rather sit in queue for a card you don't seem to need and whine and carry on over it all the same just bc you can't do a little scalping on the side while other people are more patiently waiting for their card, no issue.
Could it be quicker? Sure, but EVGA has new cards like the Hydrocopper and Hybrid lines they also need to allocate at least some chips to.
I'm just thankful they don't ask you to send in your current card before your card is even allocated to you.
They damn well could, it's not like there's any market competition on this front to offer a better option.
Because, again, a brand new card for 300-500 off retail while even retail is struggling to get any isnt anything to carry on about.
Ffs

brah, stop telling people how they should feel your nobody's father. Just because someone have the same point of view they should be on medication ? Whats the point of staying loyal to a company thats make you wait half a year? there will always be something better every so often so what? By the time you get your card the 3080ti super will be out lol

At the end of the day, it’s a graphics card. I already posted this once but I feel there are people that need to see this again. It’s just a computer part. It’s not life changing. Sure it takes a long time. No one is making anyone stay in queue. If you want to leave and buy a different card or a different way, do it. If you don’t want to and want to wait it out like everyone else is, that’s cool too. In my opinion I think this thread definitely needs to relax and realize the situation that has been regurgitated an uncountable amount of times now. The bottleneck is not EVGA, it is NVIDIA. This is easily identified by no other brand including NVIDIA themselves not having cards. But then you have multiple skus for each mfw and they have binning because not every single GPU is good. Not to mention the massive pandemic across the globe that affects processing, manufacturing, sourcing parts, deliveries, etc. This is not a normal year and things are not going to flow as easy or fast as they usually would. Let’s cut everyone a bit of slack and try to understand the bigger picture here.

All im saying

Fastjoe90
Buying a previous gen GPU, after the 3000 launch, purely to get into the queue just seems like a bad idea.

No, it is actually a very good idea if you need a GPU right now. a 2070 and 2080 is still a very powerful GPU for people who wants to play the latest game at a High Setting. If the 3080.
 
Everyone wants to think AMD will be their Savior, wrong, AMD 6000 series GPU will experience the exact same shortage.

BornAgain

steak59

Fastjoe90
Buying a previous gen GPU, after the 3000 launch, purely to get into the queue just seems like a bad idea.

No, it is actually a very good idea if you need a GPU right now. a 2070 and 2080 is still a very powerful GPU for people who wants to play the latest game at a High Setting. If the 3080.
 
Everyone wants to think AMD will be their Savior, wrong, AMD 6000 series GPU will experience the exact same shortage.

Im still of the view that rather than buying a card and jumping in the queue, just sign up for the email notifications to buy a 3000 series card. People have been getting through that faster than the step up, so it would be more beneficial to sit in that queue than the step up. And you're right about AMD. They may end up having more cards than NVIDIA to start with, but in the end they will fall into the same problem because of this pandemic.

I get that, but I wanted raytracing in time for cyberpunk and there was no guarantee I would get it. Getting a 2070 super for now and upgrading later through stepup was fine for me. I get not for everyone ,but for me it worked.

Does any of this nonsense have anything to do with 3080 step up?

Sclose81
just got my email for regular stock notification for the ultra.. sadly i dont have 879bucks to buy this all over again ... ohhh well goes on to the next still waiting in queue 

Buy it and I'll give you $$950 for it (100% serious). I'm over this wait.

Sclose81
cant buy anything with hopes and dreams lol... im broke  

:( Ok.

I think you can just give someone else the link, maybe he will just pay you $60 for the link

So EVGA shipped out my step up card last Friday, its supposed to be here Wednesday. Should I be worried that UPS hasn't had an update for me since last Saturday? I know tracking can be weird sometimes, I just haven't had this happen before where it says that the info was updated very recently but for some reason the latest update I have on the package is saying it just left California 3 days prior.

steak59

BornAgain
So EVGA shipped out my step up card last Friday, its supposed to be here Wednesday. Should I be worried that UPS hasn't had an update for me since last Saturday? I know tracking can be weird sometimes, I just haven't had this happen before where it says that the info was updated very recently but for some reason, the latest update I have on the package is saying it just left California 3 days prior.

Depends on where you Live, I got something ship by Newegg from California Friday, and it still hasn't arrived at the Illinois warehouse.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, if UPS lost the package, I am sure EVGA can file a claim and ship you another one. Covid-19 on top of Holiday season, shipping has been at snail pace lately.
 

Yeah, I figured everything was gonna be slow. The main reason I even asked was just because it didn't say anything about getting to a warehouse, it said it was in transit from Anaheim and it hasn't said a single other thing. If it had stalled in a warehouse that would have made more sense to me, so maybe someone just didn't scan it into the system or something. I live in Ohio BTW, so im not expecting fast shipping, especially with UPS ground lol

BornAgain

steak59

BornAgain
So EVGA shipped out my step up card last Friday, its supposed to be here Wednesday. Should I be worried that UPS hasn't had an update for me since last Saturday? I know tracking can be weird sometimes, I just haven't had this happen before where it says that the info was updated very recently but for some reason, the latest update I have on the package is saying it just left California 3 days prior.

Depends on where you Live, I got something ship by Newegg from California Friday, and it still hasn't arrived at the Illinois warehouse.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, if UPS lost the package, I am sure EVGA can file a claim and ship you another one. Covid-19 on top of Holiday season, shipping has been at snail pace lately.
 

Yeah, I figured everything was gonna be slow. The main reason I even asked was just because it didn't say anything about getting to a warehouse, it said it was in transit from Anaheim and it hasn't said a single other thing. If it had stalled in a warehouse that would have made more sense to me, so maybe someone just didn't scan it into the system or something. I live in Ohio BTW, so im not expecting fast shipping, especially with UPS ground lol

I wouldn’t worry about it. I live in WV and mine says the same exact thing. I think since it’s ground it is going from truck to truck and they aren’t updating it until it hits our local DC. Since both of ours are to be delivered by Wednesday I think we are okay. Mine was originally supposed to be Thursday so I’ll be really happy if it’s early.

BornAgain
So EVGA shipped out my step up card last Friday, its supposed to be here Wednesday. Should I be worried that UPS hasn't had an update for me since last Saturday? I know tracking can be weird sometimes, I just haven't had this happen before where it says that the info was updated very recently but for some reason the latest update I have on the package is saying it just left California 3 days prior.

Wouldn't worry about it.. it may be delayed but that's not a big deal unless you are super anxious.. which is understandable.  That being said, since you live in Ohio, it's probably just still on the way to a distribution point in Ohio.  If that's the case, there won't be any tracking updates as it's sitting on a truck.  Just because a truck may stop half way in let's say Kansas to drop off half a load, doesn't mean your package was scanned there. It may come update tracking when it gets there, then show up on truck for delivery tomorrow morning.  

I had a 980ti that literally went up in smoke.  Now I have a 2070 Super waiting for a 3080 without fighting bots.
 
Step-up queue is fine if you knew what you were getting into.

Downrange5-0
I’m with the others against step up. I expected slow, but I didn’t expect to be looking at March - July next year (at this rate, seriously? 10:20 am on 9/17 still???). I won’t be using the step up program anymore. I waited a month for the 1080 Ti and i was good with that but half a year or more is unacceptable.

Consider this, You can't buy a 3000 series card anywhere. You are still fighting bots and other people trying to get one. You could get lucky and secure one. I have my American Express card linked at NewEgg. There is no additional security steps needed for me to use this card. I have been siting at my computer when I get notifications from nowinstock discord, which is supposedly fairly instant, when they are in stock at the various retailers. It takes me less than 10 seconds from when I get an alert to check out and I still have not been able to get one that I'm interested in. 
 
So if these cards we readily available to purchase, there wouldn't be a line for step up anymore.   

liud21

AngryAce

Downrange5-0
I’m with the others against step up. I expected slow, but I didn’t expect to be looking at March - July next year (at this rate, seriously? 10:20 am on 9/17 still???). I won’t be using the step up program anymore. I waited a month for the 1080 Ti and i was good with that but half a year or more is unacceptable.

Consider this, You can't buy a 3000 series card anywhere. You are still fighting bots and other people trying to get one. You could get lucky and secure one. I have my American Express card linked at NewEgg. There is no additional security steps needed for me to use this card. I have been siting at my computer when I get notifications from nowinstock discord, which is supposedly fairly instant, when they are in stock at the various retailers. It takes me less than 10 seconds from when I get an alert to check out and I still have not been able to get one that I'm interested in. 
 
So if these cards we readily available to purchase, there wouldn't be a line for step up anymore.   

I actually got a ASUS TUF OC at microcenter 2 weeks ago, but i returned it waiting for this stepup... IMO, the ASUS was a better card, not as fancy, but performed better for sure compared with what i've been reading on this forum.. 

And even asus just issued a statement apologizing for low supply. It's not on the AIB companies, this is on Nvidia and the black Friday level demand that has been constant through March.
Which is why I've said, having stepped up to the 1080ti at that launch, this isnt usual and people have unrealistic expectations.

If an entire launch is in short supply, going full Karen at the employee who has no control over the policy enacted by their higher ups helps no one.

Maybe an imperfect analogy, but I think it's good enough and extremely fitting, having that lived experience.

If I were to complain, it'd be about value proposition when comparing fill price cards.
But im not paying full price for my card.
And most of us in the step up queue aren't.
That reality check is important

Obviously no one's making you wait if you have the available income to throw away on a full price card you find in stock at microcenter or best buy and choose to do so.

But I think initial scalpers worsened this problem for everyone and anyone buying multiple cards that they will only use one of only add to that problem of lack of stock from reputable sources, despite any claims of minimal markup that may be made.

Just got my Step Up card about 20 minutes ago. Wont be able to install it until Friday when I get paid and can purchase my new PSU, but the wait, for me at least, is finally over.