XFX 6800 Ultra - Pre-Order on Scan

[Lee H]

Right - We've just spoken to the big guns at XFX. Dunno why but their shipment left late from their distribution centre today. It should arrive at our suppliers tomorrow and then from there they have to come to us.

Fingers crossed they could arrive tomorrow, therefore its a stampede to release these to the pre-orders so all the gamers can have all weekend to play and tweak before doom 3 comes out. As soon as I get any further developments - good or bad I will of course update all you hexites out there.

Until then all I can do is keep badgering XFX and our suppliers.

Best Regards,

Lee

[ricahrd]

Cheers Lee, I appreciate your attentiveness to this.

Regards,
Richard.

[Lee H]

No worries Ricahrd - nothing else to do at home yet as waiting for windows update to finish so I'd thought I'd pop on and update you all. Its better to keep everyone informed rather than just keep you all dangling on a string so to speak

[ricahrd]

Indeed, I prefer more info rather than none. I've always had good feedback for keeping people updated with things. These forums have come in pretty handy for that!

cheers.

[ricahrd]

Hello,

Did you manage to receive the XFX cards yesterday or are you still awaiting their arrival?

Cheers,
Richard.

[ricahrd]

hello?

[Lee H]

Hello,

Did you manage to receive the XFX cards yesterday or are you still awaiting their arrival?

Cheers,
Richard.

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Its been so busy here today its been crazy.

Right - the XFX cards have not arrived as yet. As soon as they do I shall post how many we got etc.

Best Regards

Lee

[ricahrd]

no probs, thanks for the update. what a nightmare! good ol' suppliers eh!

[twobells]

Any chance that we can keep updated on this? Having had it pre-ordered for two weeks I am slowly going nuts, NUTS I TELL YOU

two weeks?
Try THREE months m8, thats the lead time a lot of us have had to contend with.
You are lucky Scan has a propriety arrangement direct with NVIDIA hardware manufacturers (XFX for example) you can expect a much quicker resolution than us GAINWARD fanboys.
However, I want to clarify that it's not Scan's fault, but the fault of NVidia's 'paper roll out' for the 6800 series.
If you recollect NVidia promised a worldwide 30-day availability back in APRIL (ATi promised similar) yet what do we find? NVIDIA release their pci express cards within weeks of the 6800 'roll-out'.

You have to laugh right?

Right?

tb

[Lee H]

update

XFX cards HAVE arrived and we recieved enough cards to cover the pre-orders so all you lucky and patient folks who wanted a 6800u card from XFX should all be recieving them tomorrow

As for the lurkers who are after a 6800u based card - we still have a few of the gainward 6800u cards in stock, but all the XFX have been allocated and reserved to pre-orders.

[ricahrd]

superb, thanks for the update Lee.

[twobells]

Lee

Whats the clock speed on the XFX Ultra?

many thanks

tb

[Grey M@a]

Just had a read of the Scan site, said some comming in on Monday the 8th (yesterday) but site says out of Stock. Do you have anymore XFX 6800 Ultra's in stock or know when they are arriving again?

Cheers

[Lee H]

We have more XFX cards coming soon - eta about 1 to 2 weeks

As for the clock speeds - I'm sure they are 400 hz / 1100 Mhz core and memory speed respectively.

Best Regards

[Grey M@a]

thanks, just need to order the fx card and a new motherboard, if i put the order in now, would they be sent on seperate dates or all together?

[Noxis]

two weeks?
Try THREE months m8, thats the lead time a lot of us have had to contend with.
You are lucky Scan has a propriety arrangement direct with NVIDIA hardware manufacturers (XFX for example) you can expect a much quicker resolution than us GAINWARD fanboys.
However, I want to clarify that it's not Scan's fault, but the fault of NVidia's 'paper roll out' for the 6800 series.
If you recollect NVidia promised a worldwide 30-day availability back in APRIL (ATi promised similar) yet what do we find? NVIDIA release their pci express cards within weeks of the 6800 'roll-out'.

You have to laugh right?

Right?

tb

LoL did you see when I actually wrote that? I originally ordered my XFX 6800 Ultra on the 7th of May. Now THATS a long time to wait.