Phew, that's great that they will help out if you miss your queue. 10/16 coming up soonish and the whole 8-hour window to catch the queue email has been worrying me, considering it could happen while I'm sleeping.

I've also been on Step 2 since July 6th so maybe they are a bit behind on processing the step 3's right now for some of us.  I did email support yesterday in case they had sent an email and it had gotten lost along the way (this happened to me in Dec/20 with another card where the step 5 didnt get to me without a call to evga first).
 
Hopefully we get those step 3's today!

bicknyers
Phew, that's great that they will help out if you miss your queue. 10/16 coming up soonish and the whole 8-hour window to catch the queue email has been worrying me, considering it could happen while I'm sleeping.

It's not an 8 hour window for the step up queue, I remember reading you have a week to pay for the difference in price for your step up.
 
They gave me a 8 hour window when I bought my 3060 from the normal queue, and that's what I entered into the step up. I still have a long time to wait before I get a 3080.

Ohhhhh gotcha ok I've been anxious about missing it for months.

sucks to hear everyone is stuck on steps to verify payment and invoice guess I got lucky.
 
step 2: 7/6 3:38 PM CST
step 3 7/6 3:42 PM CST
step 4 7/6 3:48 PM CST
step 5 7/6 4:43 PM CST
 
but I got knocked back a day and maybe more when I went to the UPS store and they told me the truck just left so my package would stay there a day. the EST is Friday by 7PM so there's a good chance they might not even get to it until Monday... 

Step 1: 10/08 1451 EST
Step 2: 07/06 1639 EST
Step 3: 07/06 1642 EST
Step 4: 07/06 1723 EST
Step 5: 07/06 1743 EST
 
The shipping on the old card + insurance: OUCH! Can't wait to get my hands on my new card.

Step 5 email came through today. Yeah, shipping + insurance and full tax on the product made this upgrade way more expensive than I expected.

cvergo87
Step 5 email came through today. Yeah, shipping + insurance and full tax on the product made this upgrade way more expensive than I expected.

Yeah I am intentionally not calculating the total cost in my head because I don't want to know that number. It's done and paid for and I should have my 3080 next week so all that matters is that and the fact that I am not upgrading again until some chip fabs get rolling.

cvergo87
Step 5 email came through today. Yeah, shipping + insurance and full tax on the product made this upgrade way more expensive than I expected.

Yeah... Im expecting stupid price for my upgrade from a 2060 Super to this..

Squall_Rinoa86

cvergo87
Step 5 email came through today. Yeah, shipping + insurance and full tax on the product made this upgrade way more expensive than I expected.

Yeah... Im expecting stupid price for my upgrade from a 2060 Super to this..

  No matter how much it is for your StepUp it's cheaper than buying a new GPU ( If you can find the one you want). An RTX 2060 isn't 1/4 the GPU you are going to get. I just got mine a bit over a week ago (I had the 2070 Super FTW3 Ultra) and I can't wait to put a water block on this beast to extend its life beyond the already great warranty. My Step 2 was 10/2 so I ended up with a non-LHR GPU which is pretty funny since someone would have to be lost to waste this GPU on crypto mining. It's a work of art and the performance is mind-bending.
 
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