electrosoft
I look at it this way. I think EVGA was always going to charge $2499.99 but with the changing market conditions and glut of PSUs as everyone waits for the new standards they decided to bundle it with it to give more value to their always known MSRP and ship out some PSUs too.
 
Considering the 3090ti Hybrid was $2199.99, $2499.99 seems just about right for the pricing even before throwing in a PSU.
 
 

I agree with this, it just sucks it was released in the middle of some of the best promos I've ever seen and doesn't qualify.

So my KP3090 is in RMA with them this week and ironically despite the fact that I have been corresponding with them on my RMA status, today I happen to look at my junk mail and saw my notification from them, past my 20 hour period. Jacob and the CS team have been great so I’m hoping they can resend me link. 🙏🏽 :/

Sounds like some cards may be getting listed on the evga store if people keep passing.

Sajin
Sounds like some cards may be getting listed on the evga store if people keep passing.

Maybe, but for everyone reporting to the thread as passing we have no idea where they are in the queue nor how many have sold so far along with "limited" production run.
 
Still, $2500 in these market conditions is pretty steep.
 
 

The 3090Ti is literally one of the most pointless cards in the history of nvidia releases. The RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 are right around the corner. Spending this much on a card which will be obsolete in 3 months is hella foolish, even if money is no object to you.

i passed.  like you said raven.. poor allocation of resources under best of circumstances.
 
 

Ravenmaster
The 3090Ti is literally one of the most pointless cards in the history of nvidia releases. The RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 are right around the corner. Spending this much on a card which will be obsolete in 3 months is hella foolish, even if money is no object to you.

for most folks, sure. if you know what hardware globals are, then you understand the appeal of the top binned 3090 Ti to some folks. and for anyone who held off buying a 30 series gpu i can see the appeal since it will most certainly be just as difficult to buy a 40 series gpu, let alone a kingpin. demand will increase when the new series drops as we'll all be competing with resellers once again. if crypto rebounds again and/or eth fork is delayed i can see the miners buying more gpus again as well.

zippy do you really think that's the case?  I see that as an unlikely logical outcome.  the retail video card market is going to be completely different in terms of pricing tiers versus the last 2 years barring nationalization of TSMC. 
 
(not the thread for it, but I would love to hear a realistic crypto bull case.  central bank hedge?  failure.  "money" substitute?  failure.  liquidity and store of value?  failure.  residential power rate arbitrage subsidized by taxpayers?  uhhh sort of.  financial transparency?  failure.  my personal favorite is when a "smart" contract turned out to be just a regular contract in escrow.)
 

I passed on my email notification as well. I have a 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra that is a really good bin and this is way too expensive and late in the 30 series cycle to be worth it IMO. I'm waiting for a 40 series at this point.

I already have a KP 3090.  The initial benchmarks are not looking great, and with the 4k series being close, I'm going to hold out for a 4090 hybrid of some kind from EVGA.  The price isn't too bad considering the PSU.