How long before Micro Center opening were people showing up for 30-series releases?

Landon

I want the best chance to get the RTX 3070 - how early should I show up? I know that Micro Center is trying to get rid of lines, but I'm sure some people will still arrive absurdly early. 

Landon

I go to the Micro Center in Brentwood, MO (Just outside of St. Louis)

JS_MC

Honestly, I'm not sure. We had several people in line waiting for more 3000 series cards to be delivered this morning. Sadly, we still haven't received more inventory. I wish I knew what the response for the 3070 would be, but it seems even NVIDIA didn't know how much interest in new GPUs there would be.

Landon

LandShark said:

Honestly, I'm not sure. We had several people in line waiting for more 3000 series cards to be delivered this morning. Sadly, we still haven't received more inventory. I wish I knew what the response for the 3070 would be, but it seems even NVIDIA didn't know how much interest in new GPUs there would be.

Ok. So do you think if I arrive ~30 minutes early on Oct. 15, I should be able to get a 3070 voucher? I had somebody say I should arrive as much as 5 hours early.

Ian

Landon said:

LandShark said:

Honestly, I'm not sure. We had several people in line waiting for more 3000 series cards to be delivered this morning. Sadly, we still haven't received more inventory. I wish I knew what the response for the 3070 would be, but it seems even NVIDIA didn't know how much interest in new GPUs there would be.

Ok. So do you think if I arrive ~30 minutes early on Oct. 15, I should be able to get a 3070 voucher? I had somebody say I should arrive as much as 5 hours early.

Honestly that's hard for us to say. For the 3090's, dependent on location, people were lined up the day before. I'd keep your eyes on this thread for the release as we had a lot of customers share experiences and line information for our stores and would expect that to continue for this release. The thread is here: https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/4542/rtx-3000-series-micro-center-faq-discussion

EvanM97

I know this is kind of last minute, but im going to my Microcenter at 8PM tonight for the 3070 Ti. 14 hours, hopefully theres no line when I show up and I'll hold up in my car for a few hours before getting on line. The idea is to be within the first 10 or so people on line, I wanna get a STRIX card if there is one.

Ian

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/33344#Comment_33344

Best of luck!

SWSturm

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/33344#Comment_33344

I'm thinking of doing the same thing but not SO early. I live 3 hours away so leave at midnight maybe?

OldJerkyMold

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/33344#Comment_33344

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/33354#Comment_33354

I went in this morning to get the lowdown from a few of the workers to best asses the situation and decide what time I need to line up to get a 3070 Ti. They unanimously said (separately from one another), that people started arriving between 5 and 6 pm the previous day for the 3080 ti. See you at 5...