PNY RTX 3000 series waiting list has short wait!

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Heads up to those still hunting for RTX 3000 series cards and not holding out for Asus, EVGA, MSI or one of those. PNY's waiting list is averaging 2 weeks from being added to the list to having your order taken and shipping immediately upon order. 2 of my friends I sent to Lisette at PNY just had their orders taken and cards are shipping out. RTX 3090 and a 3080, specifically. Their wait was only a week long, but Lisette specifically told me to say "2 week wait average".

These are PURE reference cards with no cheap "Zotac" style tricks of cheaping out on capacitors, this is exact Nvidia reference design. Which also means not intended for extreme overclockers, but still solid clocking in my limited experience. Both the 3080 and 3090 were the same type of cooler version as mine, so no word on the other, plainer looking version or 3070 availability at all, so cannot speak if those are also open on the list or not, but SHOULD be. All prices are MSRP, 2nd day shipping free, and tax is put on the card hold, but then seemingly wasn't charged to me, I cannot speak how that goes for all sales, may have been a state thing for my state. Dunno. Tax was only like 99 bucks though, and when the hold changed to a charge, the tax part disappeared... dunno what that was about, just what happened. I ended up paying exact MSRP of 1499.99 for a 3090, not a penny more.

Getting on the list is simple. Look up PNY's site. Get the public sales number. Speak to Lisette. Ask to get on list. It is that simple. 2 week turn around is the last word she gave me, but then lived up to a 1 week turn around on both people sent to her. That's all the info I have and hope it helps some of you guys out. Tell Lisette, if you call in, Gregory the Golden Ticket Guy (1st 3090 purchaser) sent ya. She will log ya on the list and WILL get back to you, her word is GOLDEN!

Edit: telling her who sent ya is NOT necessary, LOL! Just fun. Absolutely not necessary at all, pretty sure this list is something PNY is doing officially but unannounced is all.

 

[acroig]

Nice mosh, thanks for sharing.

 

[moshpit]

Nice mosh, thanks for sharing.

Hoping it gets more cards into more gamers hands to get the word out. This is for purely selfish reasons that I post, though somewhat long term thinking-wise.

The more 3000 series cards in people's hands showing up on Steam hardware surveys, the more devs will jump on the ray tracing bandwagon. And the more refined (hopefully) we will see it implemented in future games. This GPU-recession we're in will inevitably stall the player base needed to net devs attention enough to make the feature more of a carrot than the stick it is for them to deal with right now, at least user base speaking.

In short, moar ray tracing cards need to be out there. I would happily point out tricks to find Radeon 6000 series as well if I knew any good tricks... THOUGH, maybe the same logic that works here MIGHT work with Sapphire! Direct contact and see if they have any internal waiting lists. Isn't Sapphire kinda the same for Radeon reference wise that PNY is to Nvidia? Just an idea...