Have you heard anything since changing? I'm thinking of doing this myself, I didn't order that long ago but I don't think I have the patience to wait for a 3080 and i9 10900k, so I'm probably going to go for 3070 and an i7 10700k then upgrade when it all calms down., I have been waiting 63 working days for a 3080 and would like to swap it for a 3070, how long wou
Yep, Took less than 24 hours for it to be allocated, it is in testing now.Have you heard anything since changing? I'm thinking of doing this myself, I didn't order that long ago but I don't think I have the patience to wait for a 3080 and i9 10900k, so I'm probably going to go for 3070 and an i7 10700k then upgrade when it all calms down.
Woop woopYep, Took less than 24 hours for it to be allocated, it is in testing now.
Thanks That's Great news! Enjoy!Yep, Took less than 24 hours for it to be allocated, it is in testing now.
It seems I was put on top of the 3070 queue as I have been waiting ages already for the 3080, it’s about when you placed the order I guess.Seems like you got lucky as the 3070 is greyed out in the configurator with an expected supply date of May!!
Yes, @Ghosthud recently confirmed that if a customer a lot further in the queue was to swap a part for one that’s been allocated to someone newer in the queue, it would immediately go to that person who’s been waiting longer.It seems I was put on top of the 3070 queue as I have been waiting ages already for the 3080, it’s about when you placed the order I guess.
Oh, right. My bad.It's not the lockdown restrictions though. NVIDIA simply don't have the facility to ramp up production to cover demand...I honestly don't see the 3080 situation resolving itself fully until the Summer at the earliest. It's the same with the PS5 and Xbox consoles...they are rarer than sightings of the Loch Ness monster and Microsoft themselves have said they don't expect the supply issue to be resolved before May at the earliest
Think you've summed it up nicely thereTo be fair, any delay on anything these days and the first thought would be "COVID restrictions". I would say that part of NVIDIA's problem was actually caused by the Chinese (and other Far East countries) being locked down early last year...production of components stopped and things hadn't caught back up when NVIDIA released their GPUs in September...combined with an unprecented demand for the 3080s, they just couldn't cope.