Thought it would be interesting for those who managed to grab a card today to post success stories, price & shop you got it from! I for one will try my luck in France at 3 PM local time.

F5s at the ready... Good luck out there boys!

As a heads-up, it is said that supply for reference cards will be terrible, like RTX 3080 terrible, but that shipments of partner cards will be dramatically increased in the subsequent days. So if you do not manage to get one today, don't lose hope yet. Good luck anyway!

Thanks CB, partner cards are much more expesnive though, not sure the premium is worth it, apparently the reference cards can be overclocked to 2.5 GHz pretty easily

Any how exactly do you get lined up to hit the F5 key in the 1st .08 seconds they'll be available?

Am I crazy in trying to look for a webpage that shows a 6800xt page that says it will be released soon to sit on?  Amazon, BB, Newegg, etc.  search for 6800xt and all you get are 5700 pages.....I know I must be doing something wrong.

Not that anyone wants to give me a direct link to a page they are sitting on.... 🙂 in the hopes that the stock will last longer then 2.7 seconds as they fear I'll get the one they were about to hit the buy button on...but can you guys at least confirm there are pages actually "showing" the product...but the buy button is disabled or something?

Betting it takes less that 5 mins for the ebay pages to start filling with "I actually got one....bidding starts at $1800"🙄

 

11 minutes ago, Steve Dra said:

Any how exactly do you get lined up to hit the F5 key in the 1st .08 seconds they'll be available?

Am I crazy in trying to look for a webpage that shows a 6800xt page that says it will be released soon to sit on?  Amazon, BB, Newegg, etc.  search for 6800xt and all you get are 5700 pages.....I know I must be doing something wrong.

Not that anyone wants to give me a direct link to a page they are sitting on.... 🙂 in the hopes that the stock will last longer then 2.7 seconds as they fear I'll get the one they were about to hit the buy button on...but can you guys at least confirm there are pages actually "showing" the product...but the buy button is disabled or something?

Betting it takes less that 5 mins for the ebay pages to start filling with "I actually got one....bidding starts at $1800"🙄

 

No pages showing the product from what I understand it’s part of the NDA along with no benchmarks until launch.

6 minutes ago, Carts85 said:

No pages showing the product from what I understand it’s part of the NDA along with no benchmarks until launch.

Thanks.....looks like if i read the press release right...it should be up in about 8 mins.  Good luck to all....l hope all good simmers who want one, can get one at retail price.   If you don't get it in the 1st 11 seconds they might be available (I say 11 secs because if you don't get one in the 1st .07 seconds, you probably won't but will keep smashing the F5 button that long. 😞 ).   

Such a sad state the PC parts world has come to.....scalpers and bots rule the pricing and stock parameters....if you guys don't get one....PLEASE do not go on ebay or CL and pay double for one...let's try to starve to scalpers to make it not worth the effort and maybe this will eventually stop. 😉 

Well...that was fun....

 

Not even showing on Amazon, Microcenter, BB....guess they didn't even bother putting up the pages as they probably sold out before the pages refreshed once anyway....anyone else at least SEEING the "Sold Out" pages anywhere other than my Newegg example above?   Oh well...it was an exciting 5 or 6 seconds.

Another terrible launch, I could've gotten a 6800 for 700€.... No thanks I'll wait. The 6800 XT was 769€ for the cheapest one, and impossible to buy.

Yep, already sold out from what I can tell.

Maybe next week with the 3p cards? Ha.

I was so close I had one in my basket on the scan site and it just crashed. Gutted! Since when did getting a new graphics card turn into a Willy Wonka golden ticket!!

Just now, Carts85 said:

Since when did getting a new graphics card turn into a Willy Wonka golden ticket!!

😂 Seriously.

So what’s people’s thoughts on the second wave and realistic timeframes??

I only saw third party cards, didn't see any reference cards in France