Joooordaaaaaaan

levifig

Piospi
End of a week and there is no official release.. :/

 
Uhhhh… Except I ordered one a few hours ago, it's on NewEgg and EVGA.com? :X #confused

There is more to the world then just America. :/ I personally got sick of waiting and just ordered the Gigabyte G1. Good luck to those still waiting. :)

 
Dude: I'm Portuguese (only moved to the US in '07) so I feel your pain! I'm sorry man… :(
 
Having said that:  http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487090 ;)

just stepped up in pending queue. Also asked about my EAR and at first they told me it was not transferable but after i asked for  a manager they came back with the correct answer that it will be transferred to the new FTW+ automatically.  

levifig

Joooordaaaaaaan

levifig

Piospi
End of a week and there is no official release.. :/

 
Uhhhh… Except I ordered one a few hours ago, it's on NewEgg and EVGA.com? :X #confused

There is more to the world then just America. :/ I personally got sick of waiting and just ordered the Gigabyte G1. Good luck to those still waiting. :)

 
Dude: I'm Portuguese (only moved to the US in '07) so I feel your pain! I'm sorry man… :(
 
Having said that:  ;)

I tried that ages ago, totals to £330 (£41 more then the g1 which is silly), and that's BEFORE customs duty & tax. Absolutely no chance. I'm not butthurt or anything, I realise that EVGA are US based & they'll look to distribute to the US first, I've just personally grown impatient. I've been almost a month without a GPU, I couldn't wait any longer. :p

Sooo, after all that fuss and now everything is right with the world haha. Well, I hope everyone that is able to grab a FTW+ will thoroughly enjoy it. 

EVGA COMES THRU.
 
I am so proud of them, I am sure many of the previous owners of the 970 FTW will be happy

 I have a SC, is it worth 55 bucks for a backplate, few extra mhz? 

Hold the phone... I was quite literally one click away from purchasing the extended warranty to reactivate the step up program in order to step my FTW up to a FTW+ (missed the 14-day period by 1 day), and I don't know what came over me, but I decided to give EVGA a quick call just to confirm that they were indeed allowing this...
 
The answer I was given is that it "doesn't appear we are allowing FTW owners to step up to a FTW+ because that is stepping up to a GPU of the same class."
 
I just died a little.
 
I asked about why 970 SC owners were able to step up to the SSC version and he said that, "...it was a company decision to make an exception to the step up rules due to the heat pipe design of the original SC version."
 
Really, EVGA? The FTW can't even hold it's boost clock that you advertise because the power design implementation is inadequate. They need to rethink their decision because they just screwed over a lot of people. I bought my "new" FTW two weeks ago... already outdated 

RaghuC99
 I have a SC, is it worth 55 bucks for a backplate, few extra mhz? 

No. It only does if you plan to overclock it past EVGA's "stock overclock" because of some improvements, but if you're keeping it "stock overclock", I don't think it's worth an upgrade.

RaghuC99
 I have a SC, is it worth 55 bucks for a backplate, few extra mhz? 

IMO, if you can OC that SC for anything worthwhile and are happy with it, then no.  

I can get my SC to around 1460 mhz at like 67 degrees full load, so it'd only be around 3-4 fps more which is not really an in issue, but the main thing I'm worried about is that everyone is saying that the heat-pipes have some manufacturing defect, but my temps are fine so idk what to do