GTX 680 In Stock Thread

Sure, but a lot of that document is trash, ie; Gigabyte and Galaxy warranties are the same as Asus and MSI.
 
pewter77 said:
Someone posted this before on these forums and I saved the link. eVGA has transferable warranty, lifetime extended for original buyer, they allow you to OC without voiding the warranty and they allow 3rd party coolers. That's why they are the best.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArCtGVODPUTtdEdEUjRiSFdyckZ1Q1dGNUI3bkd5R1E#gid=0
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I just bought and registered an Evga card, and there was no mention of a lifetime warranty. You could buy an extended warranty, but that's it. That may apply to certain cards, but definiteyl not all.
 
Forceman said:
I just bought and registered an Evga card, and there was no mention of a lifetime warranty. You could buy an extended warranty, but that's it. That may apply to certain cards, but definiteyl not all.
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I think that's since all current batches of eVGA cards out right now are -KR suffix. I dunno why, but I'm going to wait a wee bit more to see if the -AR suffix cards (with lifetime warranty) come out.


Though, iirc, eVGA said more news on the new warranty system on APril 2nd? Or am I misremembering
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I know this is a little off topic, but anyone that's as desperate as I was for an EVGA, here is the bash script I used to monitor stock:

http://pastie.org/3693779

You can run it in Linux, on a Mac or on a Windows box with Cygwin installed. All you need is wget/grep/curl installed.

Fill in your info for your gmail account at the top. It will only work with gmail without some modification. If you don't trust me, make a throwaway account to use for the from address, and the login credentials. I used it with Prowl, which lets you send an email that turns into an iOS push notification. Worked like a dream.

It just wgets whatever URLs you enter, and then greps the text it gets to look for whatever string you're looking for. "STOCK" for newegg, "notify" for EVGA. Once it doesn't see that, it fires off a notification. Even includes the URL, if you configure it correctly, for quick ordering.

It's already set up to monitor Newegg's EVGA GTX 680 listing, as well as EVGA's standard, and Superclocked with high flow bracket parts direct from their site. Not the regular non-high-flow part though. Those were just the three I decided I'd settle for. If you want to monitor more URLs, just add them yourself. If strings=4, then you need url1,2,3,4, mailurl1,2,3,4, string1,2,3,4. Hopefully this is fairly obvious.

It checks every 30 seconds, and once it finds a part in stock, will email you a notification on every pass until you stop the script. This might be a bit excessive, but I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it.

No warranties or guarantees expressed or implied with this script. No tech support either. That said, it worked great for me.
 
ezrem said:
I know this is a little off topic, but anyone that's as desperate as I was for an EVGA, here is the bash script I used to monitor stock:

http://pastie.org/3693779

You can run it in Linux, on a Mac or on a Windows box with Cygwin installed. All you need is wget/grep/curl installed.

Fill in your info for your gmail account at the top. It will only work with gmail without some modification. If you don't trust me, make a throwaway account to use for the from address, and the login credentials. I used it with Prowl, which lets you send an email that turns into an iOS push notification. Worked like a dream.

It just wgets whatever URLs you enter, and then greps the text it gets to look for whatever string you're looking for. "STOCK" for newegg, "notify" for EVGA. Once it doesn't see that, it fires off a notification. Even includes the URL, if you configure it correctly, for quick ordering.

It's already set up to monitor Newegg's EVGA GTX 680 listing, as well as EVGA's standard, and Superclocked with high flow bracket parts direct from their site. Not the regular non-high-flow part though. Those were just the three I decided I'd settle for. If you want to monitor more URLs, just add them yourself. If strings=4, then you need url1,2,3,4, mailurl1,2,3,4, string1,2,3,4. Hopefully this is fairly obvious.

It checks every 30 seconds, and once it finds a part in stock, will email you a notification on every pass until you stop the script. This might be a bit excessive, but I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it.

No warranties or guarantees expressed or implied with this script. No tech support either. That said, it worked great for me.
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I've already mentioned this somewhere lately, but I was monitoring a page on newegg every 30 seconds, and my IP was banned. This has happened to many other people who did the same thing.
 
I can't believe I missed an EVGA card. Oh well...back to heavy surveillance.

That script sounds interesting, although connecting every thirty seconds for however long your running it will definitely draw you attention.
 
You could increase the 30s to let's say 5min to avoid possibly being banned.

All you have to do is change the line: "sleep 30s" to "sleep 300s"
 
Rylan said:
I've already mentioned this somewhere lately, but I was monitoring a page on newegg every 30 seconds, and my IP was banned. This has happened to many other people who did the same thing.
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NewEgg banning IPs simply because people are very interested in buying their top-dollar products? Wow, that's low even for NewEgg.
 
Rylan said:
I've already mentioned this somewhere lately, but I was monitoring a page on newegg every 30 seconds, and my IP was banned. This has happened to many other people who did the same thing.
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I've been refreshing each cards product page every 30 seconds for days and I haven't been blocked. How is the script any different?
 
MissJ84 said:
I've been refreshing each cards product page every 30 seconds for days and I haven't been blocked. How is the script any different?
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It's literally no different. It's also not every 30 seconds. Each wget takes a few seconds to process, so it's probably more like 40-45 seconds. But yes, like someone else already said, just increase sleep 30s to 60s, 120s, whatever. Even 2-5 minutes is probably sufficient to catch a card.

If newegg is going to mess with people for wanting to check their stock levels frequently, then they should fix their completely broken auto notify system.

Oh, also, this script uses newegg's content page, not the product page itself. If you try a wget on both URLs (url and mailurl), you will see the difference. The content page is 3463 bytes. The product page is 191996 bytes. Maybe some others were using the product page, and that's why they had trouble. Using the content page means about about 415 KB per hour. If they're going to get snippy about that miniscule amount of data (less than three product page loads, and that's not even counting images), I'll be happy to take my considerable business elsewhere.
 
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ezrem said:
It's literally no different. It's also not every 30 seconds. Each wget takes a few seconds to process, so it's probably more like 40-45 seconds. But yes, like someone else already said, just increase sleep 30s to 60s, 120s, whatever. Even 2-5 minutes is probably sufficient to catch a card.

If newegg is going to mess with people for wanting to check their stock levels frequently, then they should fix their completely broken auto notify system.
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No no no no no lol. I managed to pick up a 680 today, but I've been refreshing multiple tabs 24/7 every 30 seconds for each brand of 680 for the past week lol, and newegg hasn't done a thing. Apparently thenightman4u has as well and nothing has happened, so this idea that newegg blocks IPs sounds like nonsense. I'm not saying I don't believe it, but it's pretty difficult to imagine them doing that.

Edit: I bet if you're logged in, they don't block you whether its my method or the script.
 
MissJ84 said:
No no no no no lol. I managed to pick up a 680 today, but I've been refreshing multiple tabs 24/7 for each brand of 680 for the past week lol, and newegg hasn't done a thing. Apparently thenightman4u has as well and nothing has happened, so this idea that newegg blocks IPs sounds like nonsense. I'm not saying I don't believe it, but it's pretty difficult to imagine them doing that.

Edit: I bet if you're logged in, they don't block you whether its my method or the script.
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I don't know if I was logged in or not, but I doubt it. I'm sure that's a cookie that belongs to whatever browser I use to navigate the site. wget doesn't know about such things, as far as I know. Maybe they keep a database of IPs that are logged in, I don't know. In any case, I didn't get banned, and I got my GTX 680. Happy day! :D

They can take the cost of the extra bandwidth I used out of the 10 extra dollars they gouged me on my card. ;)

[edit] Ugh, in PRO-Newegg news, they shipped my card! Since it was ordered so late, I didn't bother expediting shipping since I didn't think it would go out today, even with Rush processing (which I get free with my preferred account). So, of course, I got a tracking number already. [/edit]
 
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Amazon has the EVGA card for ordering again to ship them whenever they get them back in stock. I don't know the ETA but I thought I would let you guys know.
 
I got a quick Galaxy in a few minutes ago while it lasted, only about 2 minutes. It says it's in the "packaging" stage!
 
I just got screwed from Newegg for the first time ever, it was in "packaging" stage for 12hrs and now I see it's been voided for "insufficient stock" and now I have to wait 3 days to get my money back since they already charged my bank and took the money out! I'm pissed!
 
I'm waiting for my local Micro Center to stock the GTX680. I have a 10% discount coupon I can use on any one video card. I wonder when they will start carrying it...?
 
Sorry to hear that and welcome to the club bud :D

Same thing happened to me yesterday, and now i'm scared to order even if i see something in stock. Was it a Galaxy card by any chance? Just trying to find out if it is somehow Galaxy-related or it's just random...


*** Yep, just saw your post above, it was Galaxy card
 
My order from Newegg got voided yesterday too, but insuffient stock. /sigh

They charged me and mine said packaging up to about 7am this morning when I last checked, then they voided it at 7:33am.

Crap. Been trying to get one for a friend and this was going to be his.
 
I never use TD and I happened to wake up at 2:30AM this morning so I decided to check the current inventory.

I think it is horrible that they are allowed to list the item as instock, able to add it to your cart, and then be immediately charged for an item that is on backorder.

They better get these in Monday. I hate doing refunds.
 
Newegg is completely screwed up. Every time they show something is in stock and you add it to your cart it says insufficient stock. I give up, screw it. (MSI 680 this time)
 
MissJ84 said:
ETA says May 14
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While I sure hope it doesn't take this long I did see the page say 'usually ships in one to two months. ' I refreshed and it was gone though. The email I got said they will update the eta when they know and didn't give an exact date. Here's hoping that they come in quickly.
 
Man i saw the galaxy and the MSI this morning, by the time i ran to get my wallet and got back to computer they were OOS.

lol the non-ref boards are gonna be out by the time i get one.
 
What pisses me off the most is how they charge you without knowing if it's in stock, now even if I saw one for sale I couldn't get it until my bank money is straightened out, they shouldn't charge you until they know your getting the item
 
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