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5870 finally back to launch price
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Caporegime
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Now the only issue is people expected the 5870 to come back to RRP, because there was zero reason for it to ever be above that pricing. However due to the bad pricing when the 5970 was launched, they got away with overpricing it right from the off, meaning no one remembers it was supposed to be £420-450, so they seem reluctant to reduce the pricing on that.
Which is a shame, as if 5970's drop down to the £420-450 mark, it will probably help push the 5870 down in price, as at £420-450 vs 2x£300 you get vastly more value for money(but worse overclocking in general). Still at some stage the pricing makes more sense with a 5850 at £200, a 5870 at £250 and a 5970 at £450, which hopefully won't be that far away.
EDIT:- By they I don't actually mean OCUK, or not only I meant retailers in general, because the pricing on the 5850/70 was so poor all over the place when the 5970 was launched, it basically launched everywhere at the "price gouge" price, so people aren't even hugely aware its RRP is around the £430 mark.
Which is a shame, as if 5970's drop down to the £420-450 mark, it will probably help push the 5870 down in price, as at £420-450 vs 2x£300 you get vastly more value for money(but worse overclocking in general). Still at some stage the pricing makes more sense with a 5850 at £200, a 5870 at £250 and a 5970 at £450, which hopefully won't be that far away.
EDIT:- By they I don't actually mean OCUK, or not only I meant retailers in general, because the pricing on the 5850/70 was so poor all over the place when the 5970 was launched, it basically launched everywhere at the "price gouge" price, so people aren't even hugely aware its RRP is around the £430 mark.
Indeed but not what I was saying, although 2 x 5870s @£600 will beat a 5970 @~£530 by ~12%, not much in it
The reasons 5870 is back at launch price was due to the facts that they are more readily available and people are going for the cheaper 5850 instead. It makes more sense to lower the markup to beat competition and to free up some storage space.
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Soldato
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Hmmm, compared to what we've had in the past I think £300 for the fastest single GPU card is pretty decent. Not sure about the 5970 though.
Damn straight, £300 for the fastest single GPU with no competition in sight is a good deal. If Nvidia were in this position they would be £450 and history clearly shows you this.