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WTF: Nvidia/ATI - new cards out but can't buy one???

bob4432

bob4432

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wtf, you manfs selected the dates and now people can't get a new midrange card for your msrp. this shit is getting old.

when you do a launch, make sure you have enough f*cking product on hand...
 
that's so wrong caveman!

OP, you can get a 3870 for msrp at newegg, just keep checking back every 20/30 min or so. They keep going in and back out of stock. I finally got mine ordered yesterday at about 5:30. Usually they crank up the price if they're low on stock, so there's a VERY good chance that they'll be back in stock asap... then they'll run out again...then they'll get more...rinse and repeat 50x until 8800gt finally gets some stock in dec.
 
I agree with bryan. I was ticked as well cause they were out of stock. So I got the in stock confirmation email a few hours later, went to the site and quickly ordered one. Keep refreshing the page. It may seem boring, but you will get one. So that being said, I would also agree with Capt Caveman to a certain extent.
 
Sweet, we can play 3 similar games together! with our similar video cards! Do you have Orange box too?



Crysis is so smooth on my system, the demo was pure crap, but the retail runs 10x smoother.
 
It is very simply... many people, like me. Are still running on their 7900gs from two years ago.. last years release was bleak. With the only cards outperforming the GS being the 8800GTS and above, starting at over 300 for barely playable DX10 performance... This is just not acceptable.

So you have a LOT of people who were waiting for about 2 years to buy a card... the prices on the 8800 NEVER went down, and the 2900XT still costs 400$.

Then AMD and nVidia release those cards... they claimed to have the following amounts:
AMD: "200k units in stock on lunch day"
nVidia: "50k units on etailers, and hundreds of thosands in stores and system builders".

Both ran out in a day... mean one in every 2000 people in the US bought one on lunch day (per card... 1 in <1000 people in the us bought either card at lunch)... Thats alot of people buying cards really fast. Don't you think?
 
Originally posted by: taltamir
It is very simply... many people, like me. Are still running on their 7900gs from two years ago.. last years release was bleak. With the only cards outperforming the GS being the 8800GTS and above, starting at over 300 for barely playable DX10 performance... This is just not acceptable.

So you have a LOT of people who were waiting for about 2 years to buy a card... the prices on the 8800 NEVER went down, and the 2900XT still costs 400$.

Then AMD and nVidia release those cards... they claimed to have the following amounts:
AMD: "200k units in stock on lunch day"
nVidia: "50k units on etailers, and hundreds of thosands in stores and system builders".

Both ran out in a day... mean one in every 2000 people in the US bought one on lunch day (per card... 1 in <1000 people in the us bought either card at lunch)... Thats alot of people buying cards really fast. Don't you think?
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Huh? I ordered my 8800GT 6 days after release. People could have gone to and buy directly from EVGA.com but instead kept checking at retailer websites which are charging more than MSRP.

Heck, I believe EVGA.com is back in stock but people want to pay more at Newegg for some reason.
 
Wow - and people were talking about waiting until next year for an 8800gt. When I clicked Caveman's link and saw an eVGA 8800gt SC with Crysis, I bought it immediately. Yes, that's a very good deal, even at $300. Thanks everyone.
 
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: taltamir
It is very simply... many people, like me. Are still running on their 7900gs from two years ago.. last years release was bleak. With the only cards outperforming the GS being the 8800GTS and above, starting at over 300 for barely playable DX10 performance... This is just not acceptable.

So you have a LOT of people who were waiting for about 2 years to buy a card... the prices on the 8800 NEVER went down, and the 2900XT still costs 400$.

Then AMD and nVidia release those cards... they claimed to have the following amounts:
AMD: "200k units in stock on lunch day"
nVidia: "50k units on etailers, and hundreds of thosands in stores and system builders".

Both ran out in a day... mean one in every 2000 people in the US bought one on lunch day (per card... 1 in <1000 people in the us bought either card at lunch)... Thats alot of people buying cards really fast. Don't you think?
Click to expand...

Huh? I ordered my 8800GT 6 days after release. People could have gone to and buy directly from EVGA.com but instead kept checking at retailer websites which are charging more than MSRP.

Heck, I believe EVGA.com is back in stock but people want to pay more at Newegg for some reason.
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For the first week I was checking newegg every hour (strating from 6am on the 29th when the NDA lifted) waiting for the GT to drop from the 230$ initial price to the nvidia promised 200$ / 250 for OC... In that time I saw that the stock for the GT ran out within hours... afterwhich for the following week newegg got stock twice a day every day of more cards.
A week after receiving stock they were selling stock GT for 290... at which point it stayed in stock for 3 days, then they dropped the price of stock GT to 269$ and it went out of stock in hours... Right now they are only getting overclocked versions because thats the only thing manufacturers are MAKING right now... because thats where all the money is (since they are gaurenteed a sell either way, they don't want to waste a GPU on a non OC version of the card)
 
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