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Dug up my old BFG 8800GTX OC order from ******, £372.20 Inc VAT+Delivery
I orderd mine not that long after release date, probably 4-6 weeks so it would have had its initial price drop which usualy happens in the first month once stock settles down.
In perspective both my Sapphire 4870s were both £200 on launch day so I got a Crossfire solution for £400
ATI/AMD have always gone for cheaper cards but they've never really been faster than Nvidias counterparts, Nvidias fastest chip usualy beats AMD by a fair bit.
Going back a bit further I distinctly remember paying over £400 for top end cards on release day, my 7950 GX2 was a fair old whack I think in the region of £450
To be honest AMDs lower prices for decent performance is refreshing after years of buying cards, it makes crossfire solutions fantastic high end rigs, 2 4870s in crossfire was a great solution, had I spent £400 with Nvidia I wouldn't have got anywhere near that performance.
P.S One thing I will add is that exchange rates dont seem to make a big difference, hardware in the UK is just always more expensive, when I shopped around for my Dell 30" 3007 WFP-HC (which I got from overclockers in the end due to being the cheapest
) I paid about £820 with VAT, the american prices at the time were about $1000 which with the exchange rate at the time worked out to be about £600. We never get our hardware at straight conversion rates from the USD, our games are a testement to that, look at things like steam games many of them are overpriced even compared to store prices. Buy online somewhere like play.com and you'll get massively discouted prices which is proof they can be sold a lot cheaper.
I orderd mine not that long after release date, probably 4-6 weeks so it would have had its initial price drop which usualy happens in the first month once stock settles down.
In perspective both my Sapphire 4870s were both £200 on launch day so I got a Crossfire solution for £400
ATI/AMD have always gone for cheaper cards but they've never really been faster than Nvidias counterparts, Nvidias fastest chip usualy beats AMD by a fair bit.
Going back a bit further I distinctly remember paying over £400 for top end cards on release day, my 7950 GX2 was a fair old whack I think in the region of £450
To be honest AMDs lower prices for decent performance is refreshing after years of buying cards, it makes crossfire solutions fantastic high end rigs, 2 4870s in crossfire was a great solution, had I spent £400 with Nvidia I wouldn't have got anywhere near that performance.
P.S One thing I will add is that exchange rates dont seem to make a big difference, hardware in the UK is just always more expensive, when I shopped around for my Dell 30" 3007 WFP-HC (which I got from overclockers in the end due to being the cheapest
) I paid about £820 with VAT, the american prices at the time were about $1000 which with the exchange rate at the time worked out to be about £600. We never get our hardware at straight conversion rates from the USD, our games are a testement to that, look at things like steam games many of them are overpriced even compared to store prices. Buy online somewhere like play.com and you'll get massively discouted prices which is proof they can be sold a lot cheaper.
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