THREAD 6 - Update on Onvia's Herc. GeForce2-GTS 64Meg ($290) - THREAD 6

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Lore

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Well, time to start a new thread. So far, it looks like they've been filling backorders and will be shipping them out (if they haven't already - check your front doors, porches, and your ORDER STATUS!)

I still have not received mine, but I was given word that mine went out today. (even though it should have gone out yesterday)

How many of you have them already? Didn't a lot of you have them scheduled for delivery today?


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I just got my Elsa Gladiac this afternoon and it o/c's higher than the Annihilator2. The board designs are extremely IDENTICAL....very weird.

I might go ahead and order a Prophet II from Onvia just for the hell of it, lol. :p
 
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AMAZING! Just got off the phone with Onvia -- they can't find the card on their website nor can they find it by using the part #. According to them, they don't have them nor have they ever had them. Where did you guys see these listed?
 
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they don't sell them anymore. When they got 500 on backorder they decided to stop selling them. If ya didn't order before they won't let you now.
They do have several 64mb Gf2 cards listed (w/o any specs or manufacturer also they are on backorder so they may be mistakes)

search GTS if you want to order another 64mb card on backorder (I wouldn't though)

Dave
 
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I placed my order for this card on May 10th. That's right...May freakin 10th. As soon as I read about the deal on techdeals.net, I was all over Onvia.

Anyway, after reading all the posts over the last few days, I was really feeling cheated that folks who had placed their orders a month AFTER me were already getting their cards. I've been trying to stay patient, but today I figured, what the hell, lemme try calling CSR and see if I can get one shipped out.

I called and spoke with the helpful Jennifer who told me that they got a large shipment over the weekend to fill backorders. She said I was on the list of orders to be filled immediately, that the cards are supposed to be shipped out today, and that she would contact Shannon in the backorder processing dept. to see if they will be (according to Jennifer, Shannon is the only person they have to process these orders). Not really new as a couple of people had posted the same response earlier. Anyway, she's supposed to be emailing me with a status once she finds out what the hell is going with that dept. I didn't push for more cause she was nice to begin with and I felt sorry that she had to deal with this whole fiasco (believe me, customer service jobs suck no matter what industry you're in). I have yet to receive her email but hopefully it'll bring good news, otherwise by the time I get this card, the new machine I'm trying to build will be obsolete.
 
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Well I'm not sure what to think. Either the cards didn't arrive today, or since no one replied they recieved their cards and are too busy gaming to come on the ole Thread :)

I'd be willing to bet #2 since no one has complained of not getting it
 
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Lore

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Wooooooooooooooo!

3XXXXX May. 29, 2000 All items shipped Not Applicable

And when you click for the second page:
Shipped 06/27/2000

YES! :D
 
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Hey Lore, welcome to the club <g>

My card finally showed up at the local UPS center, so I so it should be delivered today. I'm sitting here at home waiting for the doorbell to ring.
 
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For those of you who are wondering why no tracking # is showing up in your Order Tracking information area, here is what Onvia told me this morning. They said that since the quanity of back orders was so great that they are having their vendor(s) ship the orders our from the vendors facility. Therefore Onvia does not know the tracking #'s, or they at least will be delayed in getting to Onvia. We will all probably see the cards before then anyhow! Yippieeee!!!
 
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GRRRRRRRR WHAT THE HELL IS THE DEAL AT ONVIA!
I just called and they said the mine hasn't been shipped but the next shipment should be in soon but won't be in until after the July 4th Holiday.. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR WHAT THE Crap! I was just told last night that they recieved alot and everyone who ordered around the same time as me has shipped. Also 3 of them have promised the Product manager would email me yesterday and today to tell me my status... NO EMAIL YET! GRRRRRRRRR
 
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Dave your getting better info than me. All I get are lazy CSR's who say August 5th. I bet they don't even bother to check. Damn I missed getting one from PA or IL a few days ago by 5 mintues
 
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Could someone give me the EXT of jennifer or one of the other cool CSR's?
 
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Got mine today ! Already installed and played a little Q3A with everything set to full @ 1024X768 32 bit ran great. Haven't tried to overclock yet I'm looking now to see the best way to overclock, drivers or third party. I'll let you guys know how it goes.
 
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Lore

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DaveNCheez:

If it makes you feel any better, I won't receive mine until this Friday - but that's at my home, not school. I won't actually get to play with it until July 10th.
 
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well its ahite I guess. Im gonna be out of town this weekend anyway. I was just hoping it would ship today like promised so I could get it before I left. See they said late the week after july 4 or early the week after that :( 2 more weeks
 
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{Originally, I accidentally posted this to thread 5 instead of 6. Ooops.}

I got mine today. Now I can go return it to best buy for $440 (including tax). Net savings of $150 isnt too shabby.

Looks like my best buy card has the newer bios (version 2.15.01.07). I downloaded and registered the coolbits file, and I got the overclocking panel in the display properties window. However, the strangest thing...the sliders for both the memory and core speed only range from 0MHz to 100MHz???????? This is with the Win2K 5.25 drivers. No big deal, I think Ill live with it as is. Anyway, good luck to the rest of you. Looks like onvia is starting to get these cards.

Oh yeah. One more thing...the story of my other onvia order. A few days after ordering the GTS, I ordered a pair of P3-733 chips in hopes of building a dual processor system. The chips were backordered, but I thought &quot;no big deal&quot;. After I placed the order but before I ordered the motherboard, I made the discovery that all of the dual proc MB's sucked (at least the ones that can handle 133MHz bus properly). After much research I decided that it would be best to cancel my order and forget about building the machine. When I called back to cancel my order, I was told that even though the web site said they were backordered, they were in stock and my order was already being processed. The CSR said he would try to cancel it but probably couldnt. The next evening he emailed me back saying the order was already shipped, and he gave me the tracking number. I tried for a week and a half, but the tracking number was never valid on UPS's site. Before going out of town I figured I call and find out whats up? I was told my order was never shipped and would not be shipped since it was canceled. I was also told my credit card would not be charged. Great, I figured...I dont need to even worry about it. A week later (last friday) guess what showed up at my house? My two processors arrived in a box with a different tracking number that the CSR rep gave me. Puzzling to say the least. Today when the UPS guy arrived with my 64MB GTS, I traded boxes with him and told him to return to sender. Not a big deal. onvia said they will credit me for the order. I just thought it was another interesting example of their &quot;sometimes confused/always contradicting&quot; CS team. In all, it took them 15 days from the day I placed the order until the day UPS received the box from onvia, yet somehow that wasnt enough time for them to cancel the order. Go figure.

All in all, Im not too disappointed in onvia. They have some great pricing (especially with coupons and pointclick). I think in the future I will just avoid ordering anything that isnt in stock.

Oh yeah, one other thing. My tracking numbers never showed up on the web site...not for my processors, and not for the GTS.

Good luck to all.
 
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Nutzo

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GOT IT !!!!!!!!!

The UPS guy just delivered my card 5 minutes ago........
Came in a nice big box with lots of peanuts... Yumm...

Full retail version, just like I saw at Fry's for $419 last week.

If the install goes well, I'll let everyone know how good it overclocks later tonight.

 
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Nutzo

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Looks like it was an easy install. The card came with the Core at 220Mhz &amp; the memory at 363 Mhz. Worked great in my Athlon 700 @ 770.
More stable than my TNT-1 at that speed. My TNT-1 wouldn't boot up some times at that speed. NO problems so far with the Geforce 2.

Make sure you set you Video to PCI/VGA before you take out your old card. Then after 98 installs the drivers off the CD, go to thier web site &amp; download the latest drivers.

I've already tried the memory at 400 Mhz (with the core still at 220) and didn't have any problems with a couple quick Quake 3 demos &amp; 1 quick game game on the net. (set to 1024x768 HQ)

 
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