Point is those buying a Titan aren't doing so thinking it's a 'bang for buck card' they do not need/want someone telling over and over again that it's a waste of money, it's there money bro.
But what they need or what to hear isn't how forums work is it? If they don't want or need to hear that some thing it's not a wise choice, they either stop posting about it, or accept that people have stuff to say about it, and refute their comments without turning in to a bent out of shape baby in the process.
Those keep talking about Titan being to expensive will probably buy one when the price drops anyway. Those that can afford one now are getting it
now not when the price drops. Launch cards are always expensive. You pay the extra for getting it first especially when not many are available. Launch cards with 6GB of ram and based on full Kepler are going to be even more expensive
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I certainly won't be buying a Titan when (if) the price drops, and I don't think many others will, though I don't believe the price really will drop.
Launch cards aren't always expensive as not every retailer price gouges, however, the price here is around the price it should be based on American RRP, and based on the very limited production run, price drops aren't likely to happen, what will more likely happen is that supply will dry up without a price drop.
Remember this isn't the GTX 680 replacement, that will be another stripped down gaming GPU, weak compute with excellent gaming performance. The Titan is big Kepler. *Different things*.
I'm well aware of what it is, I know it's not a 680 replacement. People don't disagree with the price just because they can't afford it, and that logic is nearly always bad, because it's nearly always used as a "jealous?" type of comment.
As for being a "different" thing, well that's very obvious, but it just highlights the bad choices nVidia made when doing the 670 and 680.
It's like someone who wants a 3960x being told to buy a 3570k because it's cheaper. Someone buying a 3960x just wants the best...
That's a very bad example, It's like telling someone who wants a 3960X to get a 3930K, because in the real world, the 3960X won't offer an appreciable difference compared to a 3930K despite being twice the price, and are in fact the same chip anyway.
I'm not advocating censorship - everyone should absolutely have the right to an opinion, however that opinion doesn't need to be rammed down everyone's throats when everyone else in a thread is asking about or posting up information about a new product, the member in question was not saying "buy a 7970 instead" he was just ranting on page after page that anyone thinking of buying a Titan is stupid, which is totally not the same thing as you've suggested
Well I saw the comments you spoke about, and the ramming of stuff down people's throats didn't really happen. The "other" Andy made some comments, got jumped on because he wasn't vomitting rainbows all over everyone, and then he proceeded to reply to those comments. What happened in that thread was a group activity, not the responsibility of an individual's comments that some people didn't like. The people who responded to his "negative" comments about Titan caused more of an issue than you could say he actually caused.
making it impossible to get information or ask the questions I wanted directly led to me going to another retailer to get answers and product, which from a business point of view is a crazy decision to make
I'd like to think that most people on these forums buy from the best priced place. I won't buy from here if it's more expensive with delivery included. If the delivery price works out to be the same, I'll buy from here based purely on the fact that I'm in the Stoke area, so it simplifies any possible RMAs, as I could just go in to the shop.
Outside of that though, I'll buy where I can get my stuff the cheapest, as long as it's not from what looks to be a clearly dodgy/fake or whatever site.
You made the choice to buy from wherever you bought from, however, as I said before it was a group of people that caused the issue, and the ones really causing the issue were those getting bent out of shape because he was being a meany and saying mean things about Titan, but your comments are really advocating censorship.
I'm not talking about you, get over yourself
(I made a comment in another thread about another member and how from a business point of view it's probably not a great idea to let someone rubbish your latest product over and over and he got all shirty about censorship in that one as well)
That IS censorship though, you are suggesting it saying that it's not a great idea to let people say Titan isn't worth its price and people shouldn't buy.
Saying that it's not a good idea means that you think OcUK shouldn't allow it because technically it's inconvenient.
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