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** NVIDIA PRICE DROP: GTX 780 & 770 MASSIVE PRICE DROP!! **

Ian Evey said:
So I was tempted to buy a £95 power supply and a 290x and one of those heatsinks for it as water cooling is not my cup of tea.

But now having thought it over i see that the 780 has dropped in price.

So as of right now i can get a 780 gigabyte phantom £399 or msi lightning £419 or buy a £515 290x as there is no stock of any of the £429 ones and in doing this i save another £95 on the PSU and £40 on the cooler as i would not have risked a 290x on my 650w OCZ psu.

A visit to OC on saturday for me i think to get myself a 780.

So glad i had doubts now. Unless amd come back with stock of thier new card, with a new cooler, for £400 ? I doubt it.
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The R9 290 is being launched at around £350 this week for the cheapest models(supposedly).

Also,a 650W PSU will run any single GPU card perfectly fine. If your OCZ 650W PSU cannot run an R9 290X it is unlikely to be able to run a pre-overclocked GTX780 anyway.

Somehow I really doubt it will struggle.
 
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Gibbo said:
2GB maybe, but 3GB is absolutely fine now and going forwards. Even 4k resolution has being tested and found 3GB is enough, OK future games might make use of 4GB but 3GB is not really a worry.

1.5GB definitely is and 2GB is borderline, but at the same time you don't buy a GTX 770 2GB to play at 4k as the GPU is not powerful enough.

So 3GB and higher only makes sense on more powerful GPU's.
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As I said earlier I already have a msi 770GTX 2gig which I bought when it first came out from yourselves because a 4gig version didn't exist. I only currently game at 1080P but have considered a 1440P monitor for Christmas. Rest of my system is in my signature.

Not sure if its worth getting an other msi 2gig 770 for sli or even getting the 4gig version if that will SLI with it? Or if I should just get a new card. Would love your advice.
 
FoxEye said:
Won't somebody think of the children?

That's 5.5x the power consumed by a 46" TV :p That really is crazy.

Enjoy it, I suppose, before the EU outlaw it :p
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Depends on the rest of the system and configuration, My 780 system is about 60W desktop about 300W flat out.(GFX OC would add lots more)

My 46 Sony (non LED Backlight) is about 120W ..but it won't play Crysis 3, or any other game :D
 
teppic said:
AMD's not going to be happy! Maybe the 290X is going to receive a very prompt price cut...
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Keep them cuts coming!!! :D

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The R9 290 is being launched at around £350 this week for the cheapest models(supposedly).
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Very nice, probably going to be the best value card in the range I presume..
 
Ian Evey said:
So I was tempted to buy a £95 power supply and a 290x and one of those heatsinks for it as water cooling is not my cup of tea.
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750w is the recommendation for it but a 290x owner with a socket monitor mentioned 370w from the pc and 394w peaked with Crysis2 with 2500k at 4.5Ghz , a watercooling loop, 7 case fans 2 SSDs and a 7200rpm spinner.

Bloated figures are often recommended for psu's anyway so it would be probably fine with a good quality 650w psu but it's a never a bad idea to future proof with a psu if you ever want dual gpu's.

If you don't want to watercool are you really sure you want a custom cooler for the 290x as I recall one of them takes four slots. It's great for these cuts came at at this time for you as the 780 seems the overall better card in your case.
 
RanxZy said:
Every little helps with a NVIDIA price cut! :)
End of the day well done to AMD for for producing a great performing card to even give NVIDIA a reason to release the 780Ti and give a catalyst to these cuts.
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+1
I am not going to buy amd card because 3d vision is the way to be played for me:)
Credits to amd, this is why I am getting second 780 now. I only wished amd could produced cpu that could shake intel pricing.
 
So if I have this right, we have AMD to thank for the price cuts to the Nvidia cards.

Of course it couldn't possibly be that AMD's priceing was originally due to the then prices of Nvidia cards or that those NVidia prices were down to the AMD prices of the time which in turn were due to the Nivida price.....AMD price.....Nvidia price....AMD...Nvida.....................So there was this goat herder called John the goat herder and if he hadn't of bartered down to two sheckles and a goat for that flat rock and blackened stick god only know how much graphics cards would be today. :rolleyes:
 
bru said:
So if I have this right, we have AMD to thank for the price cuts to the Nvidia cards.

Of course it couldn't possibly be that AMD's priceing was originally due to the then prices of Nvidia cards or that those NVidia prices were down to the AMD prices of the time which in turn were due to the Nivida price.....AMD price.....Nvidia price....AMD...Nvida.....................So there was this goat herder called John the goat herder and if he hadn't of bartered down to two sheckles and a goat for that flat rock and blackened stick god only know how much graphics cards would be today. :rolleyes:
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You make my head hurt, :confused:
 
bru said:
So if I have this right, we have AMD to thank for the price cuts to the Nvidia cards.

Of course it couldn't possibly be that AMD's priceing was originally due to the then prices of Nvidia cards or that those NVidia prices were down to the AMD prices of the time which in turn were due to the Nivida price.....AMD price.....Nvidia price....AMD...Nvida.....................So there was this goat herder called John the goat herder and if he hadn't of bartered down to two sheckles and a goat for that flat rock and blackened stick god only know how much graphics cards would be today. :rolleyes:
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TropicLightning said:
You make my head hurt, :confused:
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i had to double take, then triple take, then i gave up D:

first you talk about competition pricing, then you talk about bartering? what do they have to do with eachother :?

edit: are you on something?
 
Wooooo

Flippin brilliant news.

Just ordered a MSI Geforce GTX 770 Gaming Edition 4096MB, which was the card I was going to buy in a couple of weeks for my build, not only is it reduced by £50 its also on offer (saved me over £60) and three free games - cheers OC UK and NVIDIA :D
 
straxusii said:
That article is largely speculation, aside from one off cut from a retailer, the distributor article linked to shows a huge $20 coming off the price.
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Whatever. I recall seeing price drop across retailers just few months after GTX480 launch, I can't exactly going back in time to screencap retail price of the GTX480 in June/July 2010. That 2nd article is the best I could find to support my claim of seeing price was going down sharply despite not long after launch. You were the one accused me of making things up, despite you have no evidence yourself. I don't think I would go any more off-topic arguing with you on this subject.

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£409 in early June vs launch price of £440-£500 at the end of March 2010:
http://itshootout.com/r-345/zotac-gtx480-review/

/end discussion

Now lets have the discussion back on price drop of current Nvidia cards.
 
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Just received mine :D

But no Haribo :( Do you expect me to be happy with a 780 and three free AAA games for £400 but no 10p bag of sweets?
 
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