After failing miserably trying to get a 3090 on Nvidia launch day last year. Silly me clicking the buttons in my browser 1 second after 9am eastern when the bots had all the doors covered
I got an email from EVGA last week saying that I was next in line for an RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA and I had 20 hours to decide. After going thru all the hoops to prove that I wasn’t a bot the card is on its way.
I think it was Wendell that indicated several months ago that EVGA had this program so I signed up skeptically.
I will say thanks to EVGA for giving us the option to buy one but not at scalpers prices; also thanks for really actually providing a means of getting a card simply by getting in line. And thanks as always to Wendell.
Card arrives on Thursday. I’ll update here if there’s anything interesting.
I remember I was on teamspeak one night with a couple buddies and one mentioned the Newegg shuffle. I looked it up and the first time I entered I got picked for a 3070. I literally cried because of it.
kinda, you can get water cooled RX 6900 XT’s for less than the air cooled versions at $1500 and it will smoke everything but the 3090 and will do so with lower power usage.
Not on Europe you can’t…
Although there are a few 1500€ 6900XTs… There are 6800XTs that are more expensive than that. Not to mention 3080 is more expensive than 6900XT.
I noticed yesterday there are 6700XTs under 1000€ which wasn’t true last week.
Oh well… Let’s see what 6500XT will cost…
USA. I don’t remember when I signed up because EVGA never sent me an acknowledgement email which made me even more skeptical. To figure out exactly when I’d have to figure out which YouTube video Wendell mentioned the EVGA waiting list.
Major retailers in Germany always have most cards in stock, including Mindfactory which was linked above by @MazeFrame .
It’s more the price that isn’t an acceptable value to me. I’m certainly not paying a PC worth of money for a GPU. And then Nvidia has rather low memory across most models. I’m looking forward to low-end cards, preferably with passive cooling. It’s about time we get something better than a GT 1030 or IGP in that bracket.
