Well this didn’t age well lol
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This has been explained multiple times now, if you ordered a pre-built system you would have been in a different queue, but still in a queue.
The cards for the pre-builds come from a separate SI allocation and so far from what ScottiB has posted, the spare SI cards have been helping clear the retail queues, not the other way around.
This time there was stock of the same card arriving for both SI and retail, the first part of that shipment arrived and in order to ensure that there was enough time to install and test the pre-builds before shipping, the SI allocation was taken from that first delivery.
The remainder of that shipment is expected to arrive today and can still be sent out this side of Christmas.
Judging by how much the queue went down in the notification I got last week, they're still to come.
I wish you luck but with potential system builds and RMAs you'll probably likely go down to single digits in the queue.
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I feel for you guys still waiting i really do
I'd laugh at the comparison, but it's not funny - I ordered 17/9 and first update was position 592, so pretty clear ASUS are getting such good bins they're prioritising the OC versions. It's more profit, so no surprise there...
I'm confused as to how you got your card being in 3rd place and I've only moved up 1 space (now at 45th). Enjoy your card though...very jealous!
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just catching up on the forum so dunno if this has been answered already but from what I can tell this might be additional to the large shipment they got recent (or atleast I hope) but getting some clarification/confirmation would be great as I am couple spots in front of you at 56. I made a big leap from 149 to 56 position and got this queue update couple days after Gibbos message mentioning those 69pc but he did say, "either out on delivery, arrived in our warehouse awaiting booking in or and I hope not lost". But trying not to get my hopes up too much so that dont get massively disappointed.
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on another note today is the official 3 month anniversary of waiting on the ASUS RTX3080 TUF OC. Here is to hoping I get a nice gift from OCUK. 
Just to piggyback onto this post, how would I check where my prebuild is at? Would I need to call OC themselves as I've not had any other updates since ordering.
Me too for the non-OC TUF. Queue position 730 so no chance. More likely April 2021.on another note today is the official 3 month anniversary of waiting on the ASUS RTX3080 TUF OC. Here is to hoping I get a nice gift from OCUK.
Best to send a web note rather than phone. You might be on the line for a while.
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My condolences. I hope they start getting some dream shipments so that you dont have to wait that long as that is madness. I was patient at first but now I am thinking months of value have gone down the drain. But hey ho could be worst, could be stuck with no rig at all or living off spam (no offense to those who like spam).
Thanks, I'll maybe do this after xmas then, they're obviously super busy and it's not like I need it or am going to get it by then anyway.
ladies and gents.. I'm out. Wanted to wait to get my TUF OC but cannot be bothered anymore. Managed to get Aorus master end of November but still wanted TUF.. had my money frozen for months and reckon still would have for some time as my queue position is 650+ Merry Christmass to all! It was emotional ride
Not likely. I update around every six years.See you all at 4xxx launch
Went from a 780GT to 8800GTX to 280GTX to 980GTX and supposedly a RTX-3080. This means if the pattern follows, my next upgrade will be a 6080. If I get my 3080 before they are launched.
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I cancelled an msi ventus 3080 after finding out it had very poor relative performance, actually still wouldn't have it by now anyway. Ordered 34 mins late at launch. ordered an asus tuf non oc 3080, knowing full well i'd be at the back of the queue, but in position 1700 with no stock at all coming in I couldn't just leave that amount of money tied up doing nothing. Now my gtx 1080 is dying, driver crashes all the time if I don't underclock the memory. Soon I might have nothing at all!
Plan B was obviously AMD, that went down like a lead balloon. I was even online 2 mins after gibbo made some 6800's available, that didn't pan out either! Honestly I'd just take either at this point, RT is nice on the 3080 but since i've never used it I may be better off without, who knows it may be like high refresh rates, you're quite happy without it until you use it once and nothing else will do
Plan B was obviously AMD, that went down like a lead balloon. I was even online 2 mins after gibbo made some 6800's available, that didn't pan out either! Honestly I'd just take either at this point, RT is nice on the 3080 but since i've never used it I may be better off without, who knows it may be like high refresh rates, you're quite happy without it until you use it once and nothing else will do
Facing the same on my 980s. The one I transferred into the new rig started thermal throttling without being too stressed. I swapped it out for the other one and broke a fan blade in the process on the one I was replacing it with! New fans arrived today so will be able to run Cyberpunk on this card as it runs about 10degC cooler.
Keeping my eyes open and trying my luck occasionally for available cards not at scalper prices. I do not want these cards to break as I want to keep the Piledriver SLI rig as a legacy W7 machine.