Cheap 7990!

ussie · 8 Aug 2013 at 19:43

http://www.techpowerup.com/188552/radeon-hd-7990-malta-prices-slashed-to-699-targets-gtx-780.html

If this comes in the uk soon I may consider buying it, what are your opinions people?! $700 to £ is roughly like 450.

You'd be paying 450 for basicallt 2x 7970? awesome! Or you can wait and see what the 9xxx offers. Even so if this price soon comes to the uk im sure people will go nuts!

Suarez7 · 8 Aug 2013 at 19:44

this is new

Columbo · 8 Aug 2013 at 19:45

$700 means £700 or have you not learned anything about UK pricing yet?

MagicBoy · 8 Aug 2013 at 19:46

Plus the VAT. So £540. Minimum.

LtMatt · 8 Aug 2013 at 19:48

ussie said:
http://www.techpowerup.com/188552/radeon-hd-7990-malta-prices-slashed-to-699-targets-gtx-780.html

If this comes in the uk soon I may consider buying it, what are your opinions people?! $700 to £ is roughly like 450.

You'd be paying 450 for basicallt 2x 7970? awesome! Or you can wait and see what the 9xxx offers. Even so if this price soon comes to the uk im sure people will go nuts!

If it drops to £450 im selling my 7950's.

teppic · 8 Aug 2013 at 19:58

At £450 what would they do with the 9970?

NeedAUsername · 9 Aug 2013 at 00:03

It was £520 at a certain retailer the other day, it was a Sapphire 7990.

Potty27 · 9 Aug 2013 at 00:16

ManCuBuS said:
$700 means £700 or have you not learned anything about UK pricing yet?

+1 sadly lol

ussie · 9 Aug 2013 at 08:26

ManCuBuS said:
$700 means £700 or have you not learned anything about UK pricing yet?

lol its not that bad o.O

LtMatt · 9 Aug 2013 at 08:31

7990 for £525 discovered.

Marine-RX179 · 9 Aug 2013 at 09:04

ussie said:
lol its not that bad o.O

You are right, but it would still be along the line of $700-> £700 then -£50= £650, based on the launch price of Titan and GTX690 and 7990 we've seen

OLDPHART · 9 Aug 2013 at 09:12

Wait and see what the 9xxx offers, if not rather buy a 780. The members who keep going on about the cost of running a PC, you'll be banging 50p coins in the meter like nobody's business, but at least you'll save on the heating bill's in the winter.

Diagro · 9 Aug 2013 at 09:18

Oh god heating... left my pc mining coins and mt office was 37c this morning! !!!!

And thats with a window open.

Didnt realise my 7990 would dump so much heat when at 100% load

Xcandyman · 9 Aug 2013 at 09:46

Very tempting at this price for such a card but the watt usage scares me. Think I might stick to single gpu cards for the time being until I can train the kids to generate electricity by riding a exercise bike hooked up to a pc

jkb · 9 Aug 2013 at 09:52

LtMatt said:
7990 for £525 discovered.

I'm waiting for the 9970 but at that price it is difficult to resist a 7990

Catanonia · 9 Aug 2013 at 09:53

Diagro said:
Oh god heating... left my pc mining coins and mt office was 37c this morning! !!!!

And thats with a window open.

Didnt realise my 7990 would dump so much heat when at 100% load

LOL, yup dump a lot of heat

Have mine running 24/7 with all office windows open, fairly warm in that room even with door open. Will be nice during winter.

Diagro · 9 Aug 2013 at 10:00

Yea nice in winter if my card holds up that long haha

ICDP · 9 Aug 2013 at 10:12

This is the price 7990 should have been from the start. Now we are so close to 99x0 I would not touch one of these even at that price.

JediFragger · 9 Aug 2013 at 10:31

This is def a winter card

Marine-RX179 · 9 Aug 2013 at 11:02

ICDP said:
This is the price 7990 should have been from the start. Now we are so close to 99x0 I would not touch one of these even at that price.

I have to agree it's definitely too late.

To be honest if they done this right at the same time as the launch of the GTX780, at least it would offer somewhat of a competition...but being so late after the launch of GTX780...sorry, but AMD's timing is off. They had the opportunity, and they missed it.