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What does everyone think of current gpu prices
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What are you talking about, $1=£0.636 and the cheapest 7970s from here are £367 or $577 if you exclude VAT.
That's not more than $20 more expensive than in the US.
If only we worked by direct conversion rates.
I believe he said £=$ not £ conversion to $.
The 7970's RRP is $549 according to some review sites.
The current price here is around £450, which is around $710 at the latest conversion.
That's why he said £=$
In my case, I'm in ireland and if I want a 7970 I have to pay €540 including postage and OCUK adding extra vat to match the Irish 21%.
That's a lot alright. I paid £309 for my AMD 4870X2, which is the second highest I had ever paid for any pc part.
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Heh, I am with you on this - £200 is the sweet-spot for most ppl. I would go over if I could get like-for-like (GTX 480 SLI performance) from a single card.
I only ever buy a card between £130 and £250, usually around £200 is the sweet spot like you say, what i want to know is when will we likely see cards in this price range?
Really we should be getting high end cards for no more than £300, if you look at cpu's you can get reasonably high end for £170, if it was the same for gpu's all you have to add is a board and a bit of ram to that and the high end should cost no more than about £300, would be more fair, especially as we're playing mostly console ports and they can't even manage more than 60 fps in bf3 at ultra settings, they're not that powerful or priced appropriately.
Really we should be getting high end cards for no more than £300, if you look at cpu's you can get reasonably high end for £170, if it was the same for gpu's all you have to add is a board and a bit of ram to that and the high end should cost no more than about £300, would be more fair, especially as we're playing mostly console ports and they can't even manage more than 60 fps in bf3 at ultra settings, they're not that powerful or priced appropriately.
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Soldato
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Thats my thinking.
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I agree thats the price range I look at. Anything much beyond that means I either won't bother or buy something cheaper with good enough performance.
I play Bf3 and checking the stats on that for the 7950 it is not much beyond a 6970 which is a performance level you can get by unlocking and overclocking a 6950. That way you save a lot of money for the wife to "reallocate"
How many PC games actually need these cards anyway? My older rig plays most of today's PC games fine. The problem also lies in the games. Too many ports or shoddy releases in general. I can't wait till the new consoles come out; so we can get some better quality PC games.
The resolution people game at is a big factor.
Anything over 1920x1200 would make use of these cards really well.
I agree with the new consoles, if it's true that they'll be using dx11 hardware it'll hopefully give the gaming industry a good kick start.
The truth.
People paying £400-£500 for Gfx cards now, will one day, look back and cringe when real life catches up with them.
Not to mention a lot of the people on here that are buying such stuff are probably using student loans and getting into debt with credit cards to satisfy their E-peen addiction, i suspect relatively few people on here can genuinely afford such purchases.
As of right now i have a 1Gb 4850 that i bought new from OCUK back in 2009 for £75 when building my current rig, i just played through Skyrim pretty much maxed out, an average of 40-50fps, which for me is perfectly fine.
The only game which i havent bought, but would like is BF3, as i know that it's really the first game that the 4850 isnt really upto to running at the sort of level i'd want, so i will wait until a card comes along that can run it at an acceptable level for me in the £150 range, that is my max for a gfx card thesedays, mainly because i simply dont play games as much as i used to, so its not a worthwhile purchase for perhaps 3-4hrs a week of proper use.
As for prices on the 79xx cards, i personally think they're an utter disgrace, and people who buy them at such prices are complete tools for rewarding the blatant price gouging going on.
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The truth.
People paying £400-£500 for Gfx cards now, will one day, look back and cringe when real life catches up with them.
Pretty sure this wont be the case for most people. Unless they are idiots and buying themselves into financial hardship with money that isn't theirs.
I imagine that some of the people spending £400 on these cards will still have them a few years down the line
It's reasonable value if it lasts you a good amount of time and does what you need it to.
I couldn't justify it right now, and neither could you. But for plenty others, it's not a big deal, it's not that much money at all.
"I can't afford it so everyone who can is a complete idiot, life isn't fair, etc... "
They are charging an amount that people deem acceptable for the current fastest single GPU. People are paying this amount.
These cards obviously are not meant for you at all.
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Just because minority of people with more money than sense buying them doesn't mean the card ain't overpriced. Think back about the GTX480 launch...it was at a ridiculous £450...and because of people had the will to refuse to pay that kind of money for the card and the cards weren't selling, which basically in a sense sending Nvidia a message that they are no fool, the prices was quickly slashed down to £380 within just a month.
The current AMD card prices IS overpriced, but unless there are enough people sending AMD the same message by refuse to buy the cards at the current price point and make AMD hugely misses their sale target, I doubt we will see any price drop before Nvidia's new cards arrive.
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It's obviously not overpriced enough if people are still buying.
If you're going to be in the market of selling graphics cards to make profit, why would you not try and maximise the amount earned for each card?
It's hardly more money than sense either, it's just a case of having enough money and not being overly fussed.
Do you expect them to sell these cards for less than the competing 3GB Nvidia card?
It's rinse and repeat stuff, every time the new gen is released, forum posters violently foam at the mouth at how expensive the cards are. Everyone who buys one is a stupid idiot, and must have no concept of money.
Don't want to spend that price, fine. No need to insult everyone who doesn't have issue with it.
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I really don't understand the "card price is too DAMN high" club.
I completely agree with your statement Emlyn. It seems if everyone is set on AMD always being value based and second place
.There was a time when a brand new high end Gfx card launch would mean no stock left after a couple of days, this clearly isnt the case with the 79xx cards, no shortages whatsoever, thats a clear message that fewer and fewer people are prepared to pay such absurd prices.