I got tired of waking up early every day and pressing F5 on every website that sells these so I just bought a 2070 Super and stepping up.

anarchy998
I got tired of waking up early every day and pressing F5 on every website that sells these so I just bought a 2070 Super and stepping up.

If I could. There are no 2080ti or 2080 at all through EVGAS :(

The NewEgg alerts are setup so that they email out alerts after that product has been in stock for 5mins or more, however they are always sold out within seconds. Same goes for things like instockalerts, their notification system is just too slow.
 
I'm using Distill the browser extention to check web pages for changes, which will alert me immediately. Unfortunately, as most, still nothing I've managed to snag. I'm after a 3090 FTW3 Ultra or Strix.

ThaWhistle
Given that the world will surely be consumed by a giant space monster within a few months, I don't anticipate ever getting a 30xx series card.

The monster is just pissed because it got kicked out of the cart at the PayPal stage far too many times and it's coming for us. 

I purchased a 2080 Super FTW3 and did the Step-Up for a 3080 FTW3 Ultra. I needed a card as I sold my EVGA 1080 ti Hybrid for what I paid for it. I've learned a couple things....never, ever be without a card and never, ever expect sellers to have any stock of any new release. Wouldn't it have been great if on the 17th of September there were enough cards to go around? I believe it's all done on purpose and for a reason. I just didn't pay enough attention in Marketing class to learn what that is though...lol. I had a 3080 in my cart on the 17th and couldn't complete checkout, same with the 3090 via the Elite page. And I don't even want a 3090, so the insanity of it all got to me. After it was over I thought what in the hell am I doing? 2020 has affected my brain. So I wait for the Step-Up and per chance a 3080 FTW3 Ultra pops up in stock and I get through checkout, then it will have all been worth it.

 
Only way to ensure you get one!

My strategy was that I was impatient and I bought from cyberpowerpc because they had them in stock.
I built a full pc with mostly junk parts. The total cost after 5% off and free shipping came out to ~$3,200
 
HOWEVER,
I was able to include the Asus APEX mobo and a 10900kf in addition to the 3090 ftw3
I will take these parts out of the system and put them in my current build.
 
I will take my old mobo and old 9900k and build a custom waterloop card with the 2080ti hydrocopper it's replacing. Then i will sell it on ebay. I have a powerseller account so it should be an easy sale. Ppl pay top dollar for these types of builds since most ppl dont know how to hard tube their own loop
 
In the end, it will cost me even less than if i got the 3090 straight from Evga and I get to upgrade my mobo & cpu to boot!

Has the 3090 come back in-stock at all after the 24th?

Wait.. slow roll. Haha

I'll just stop in months from now and take my time and it will come the next day.

bsather
I purchased a 2080 Super FTW3 and did the Step-Up for a 3080 FTW3 Ultra. I needed a card as I sold my EVGA 1080 ti Hybrid for what I paid for it. I've learned a couple things....never, ever be without a card and never, ever expect sellers to have any stock of any new release. Wouldn't it have been great if on the 17th of September there were enough cards to go around? I believe it's all done on purpose and for a reason. I just didn't pay enough attention in Marketing class to learn what that is though...lol. I had a 3080 in my cart on the 17th and couldn't complete checkout, same with the 3090 via the Elite page. And I don't even want a 3090, so the insanity of it all got to me. After it was over I thought what in the hell am I doing? 2020 has affected my brain. So I wait for the Step-Up and per chance a 3080 FTW3 Ultra pops up in stock and I get through checkout, then it will have all been worth it.

I have never done a setup before. I'm inclined of doing it cause I want a 3090, but it looks like it might take a while (I'm using a 1080Ti FTW3 at the moment). If I purchase a 2080 super I can do the setup as soon as I get it (or at least get in the queue) and it will be shipped to me once they are available (even if it takes more than 90 days for them to ship it)?
 
Also what they ship is a new/sealed card, no refurbished cards right?


I read a bit more and it says you have to send your card in and then they will send you the new one after they received it. Not sure if I'm ok with that. I thought they sent you the new one and then you send the old one back.

Hand money to a business and they give me a product. You know, like how businesses are supposed to work in this world. The fact that you need a strategy to buy one tells you what an absolute embarrassment this is.

Glad I didn't sell my 2080ti ftw3 ultra OC...
 
Right now I've come to terms that I will probably not get a 3090 for a while. Hopefully, there will be more stock arriving before the holidays....

Wait for the clown show to end, and watch all of the early adopters be Beta testers for this new product, so I can buy one without any heartache in another couple months! :-)

LinS123
I was lucky enough to get a 3090 order in last week by refreshing from the review order page.
 
Essentially I had saved the link of the place order page and would refresh and click place order. If it knocked me back to the featured product page, I would hit back and it took me back to the place order page. Then repeat until I got an order confirmation. It took about 75 mins of crashing but I got an order confirmation in the end.
 
But just my luck, the card is now stuck in customs at the nearest UPS sorting centre and they haven't done anything to deliver it in the last 2 days. I already paid the COD (taxes/duties) in advance and they're still holding it. Damn it all.

Can you share the cost breakdown of the additional importing fees and costs?  

Was hoping to pick up a 3090 FTW3 Ultra but after getting all the way through payment four times only to be redirected to buy EVGA lanyards and bits, and now watching the capacitor, driver, Chinese holiday, no stock, no preorders, and whatever other issues fall out, I quit doing the up early and stuck on a screen to F5 over and over for nothing. After almost snagging a card I was too tempted to keep pounding the bar like a trained squirrel.
 
Screw it.
 
I’ll just wait for a silent revision or two and for the turmoil to mellow out. It’s not worth the hassle. Also wondering about just waiting for a “Ti” release. There’s going to be one - just don’t know when. The 3080Ti would probably even save me the entire cost of a Reverb G2 and a M.2 drive while punching at nearly the same performance as the current $1000 extra 3090 FTW3 Ultra.
 
Maybe by then Nvidia can sort how much to downclock to get reliability too.
 
This whole thing leaves bad feelings about Nvidia, but so did the 2000 series release. I really wish there were better alternatives. They screwed us with VR-SLI, they do paper releases just to shaft AMD, and they shaft board partners with rushed launches and inadequate testing that forces delays. They embargoed reviews, sent everyone into a frenzy to buy the wrong cards just so they could get one, really pumped up the scalper market, etc.
 
Never time to do it right but always time to do it over at great expense and inconvenience I guess.
 
Jensen can shove a handful of his spatulas where the sun don’t shine. Nvidia is a pretty rotten company with this kind of behavior. It’s obvious the only thing they learned from the 2000 series launch was how to make the 3000 launch even worse.