Price rise on the 6850 bad idea surely?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 25 Oct 2010 at 20:38

Tyrone77 said:
Let all the reviews come out, which give a bang for buck rating and then raise the price, nice one.

NVidia are getting my money, when I go for my upgrade, as long as they don't raise their prices!

The price rises are most likely due to the retailers and suppliers.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 25 Oct 2010 at 20:39

I got my £176 6870 today, well it should have been Saturday but ParcelFarce got involved and that was the end of my fun.

There seemed to be plenty at the place I purchased from, but the stock count fell like a stone even when their second "preorder" batch of the day (Friday) turned up, which is where my one came from. They are now selling at the 'standard' rate too, which is possibly a touch too high I think.

I missed out on the cheap 2TB Samsung f4's a month or so ago, not this time.

Skyrocket · 25 Oct 2010 at 20:44

These "price rises" are due to the sellers bumping the price. Not because of the RRP rising.

Demand must be big for them.
Basics demand> = <price

easyrider · 25 Oct 2010 at 21:32

Sucks big time, in essence you are paying more for less performance

Skyrocket · 25 Oct 2010 at 21:36

^^^^ were you going to by one?

Marine-RX179 · 25 Oct 2010 at 22:07

Screw this. My urge to upgrade the graphic card has gone cold now thanks to the price rise. Not that the games I recently play my 9800GTX+ can't handle at 1680x1050, but was willing to spend around £130 for an upgrade and a quieter card; not that I really need the upgrade unless I want to play the more demanding games, which I haven't actually got round to.

Dervious · 25 Oct 2010 at 22:14

Marine-RX179 said:
Screw this. My urge to upgrade the graphic card has gone cold now thanks to the price rise. Not that the games I recently play my 9800GTX+ can't handle at 1680x1050, but was willing to spend around £130 for an upgrade and a quieter card; not that I really need the upgrade unless I want to play the more demanding games, which I haven't actually got round to.

+1.

I was a bit tempted by these new cards. I`m a very casual gamer (still working my way through Fallout 3, which runs fine on my HD4850 512mb), but the thought a nice new GFX card was tempting. I was probably going to to wait until the new ATI cards are released next month anyway, but thanks to the price rise on the 6850/70s that wait will be a little easier.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 25 Oct 2010 at 22:17

Dervious said:
+1.

I was a bit tempted by these new cards. I`m a very casual gamer (still working my way through Fallout 3, which runs fine on my HD4850 512mb), but the thought a nice new GFX card was tempting. I was probably going to to wait until the new ATI cards are released next month anyway, but thanks to the price rise on the 6850/70s that wait will be a little easier.

Agreed.

Tyrone77 · 25 Oct 2010 at 22:49

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The price rises are most likely due to the retailers and suppliers.

Ah righty-o, still sucks big time!

Biffa · 25 Oct 2010 at 23:30

Still out there for lower prices inc

SBD · 26 Oct 2010 at 00:28

OCUK should drive the prices down, force NVIDA / AMD to sell cheaper price pass this on to us and then bingo a truck load more sales which means more profit

how many more people would xfire a pair of 6870 if it was £140 a pop

radar19 · 26 Oct 2010 at 03:43

I thought the prices were supposed to go down, not up.

DeadMan · 26 Oct 2010 at 07:04

Makes me laugh that a year on the 5870 still represents the best price performance in AMD's product line even after the 6000 series launch.

Marine-RX179 · 26 Oct 2010 at 07:21

DeadMan said:
Makes me laugh that a year on the 5870 still represents the best price performance in AMD's product line even after the 6000 series launch.

To be fair this year's launch is started with mid-range rather than high-end. AMD's decision to do so is understandable, since they needed to wrestle the market back from Nvidia's GTX460s, which was eating up basically the entry level and mid-range market.

malachi · 26 Oct 2010 at 07:28

Noticed other websites done the same....great. Watch the 69xx series be overpriced now.

DIABLO · 26 Oct 2010 at 07:30

AMD must have been selling a lot of cards so they thought hey lets increase margins a little.

Marine-RX179 · 26 Oct 2010 at 07:42

DIABLO said:
AMD must have been selling a lot of cards so they thought hey lets increase margins a little.

But it's ridiculous though. Because of the price rise, people who were going to get a 6850 or 6870 would now reconsider, and compare with the GTX460 1GB and GTX470 again before opening up their wallet and going for it...

I say bad move by AMD :mad:

steve258 · 26 Oct 2010 at 07:53

Demands increase + cards running low = price increase. I don't think it's a permanent price rise you just have to wait until supply is stable again.

Good thing too as I want to hang on to my gx2 for a bit longer

dave1983 · 26 Oct 2010 at 08:40

agreed i was going to pick up a 6850 but seeing the increase ill think ill wait for the next price drop, damn get paid thurs and was going to pick a shiny new card arggg

Metroid · 26 Oct 2010 at 08:41

Not only here, 6850 and 6870 prices are rising everywhere, supply and demand BS hehe. I must resist until next month and grab on the release day.