AMD begins slashing the prices of its Radeon R9 290, R9 290X GPUs

[Nelly]

At the end of the day. we all get a loss no one profits in the PC hardware. The min you buy something is already reducing in profit every day.

GTX 780 Windforce was £569.99 on release day, only a few month later GTX 780Ti was around the same price and the GTX 780 WF plummets to around £350, can't tell you how miffed I was at the time.

Will happen this time around I bet, it's just the way it goes.

Best thing is, if you have bought on release day, it's plenty of time to save up for the next gen of cards, anything you get back from selling your old cards is just a bonus.

 

[tommybhoy]

That's a crazy hit Nelly, one of the main pulls of AMD for years now, AMD's simply cheaper.

Maybe AMD should just announce that one of the rewards 'Mustang Omega Racer AMD edition star citizen' is worth a fair whack, one just went for £55-there's a nice discount, and two other cracking games(Alien/S3) that gets you a 290 for £190, perhaps £170 if you sell them all, nothing new can match that for bbfb.

AMD will drop the price and the reward, I said if buying new I would probably go for a 970, after noticing the worth of the SC reward, I would be jumping all over a 290 now.

 

[humbug]

At the end of the day. we all get a loss no one profits in the PC hardware. The min you buy something is already reducing in profit every day.

I don't mind loosing £120 off a £300 GPU a year on.

 

[Marine-RX179]

GTX 780 Windforce was £569.99 on release day, only a few month later GTX 780Ti was around the same price and the GTX 780 WF plummets to around £350, can't tell you how miffed I was at the time.

Will happen this time around I bet, it's just the way it goes.

Best thing is, if you have bought on release day, it's plenty of time to save up for the next gen of cards, anything you get back from selling your old cards is just a bonus.

^This to be honest.

Between the 290 and 970, if they price are similar, I'd simply recommend going 970 instead. Many existing 290/290x owners on the other hand already have that performance and been using it for nearly a year...that's a fact that the benefit of Maxwell's better power efficiency won't be able to change in anyway.

My 290x devalue a lot after just a mere 1 years, but it's not like I even bother to sell my old hardware anyway...I would use them as parts for building for spare/extra systems, if I do upgrade my graphic card in the future

 

[Gibbo]

We shall move our prices over next few says but the price drop is not that impressive, should allow us to bring a 290 down to around £215-£225 and a 290X down to around £299 which is not a huge move from our current prices due to all the hard work I did with AMD a few weeks back to get prices down and the fact we've sacrificed so much margin to try and keep AMD competitive.

So I shall be working on moving our prices but at the same time I want to try and go better as I feel a 290 needs to be £199 and a 290X about £259 or a little lower. Otherwise how can one not recommend a 970 at £250ish, it is really very hard to beat!

I'm in a good position so will be pushing very hard to get the prices I want.

Right now AMD have dropped 290 to just $299 to end user and a 970 is $329 to end user so you can easily work out the new price from AMD based on NVIDIAS uk MSRP of £259/$329 for 970 this makes 290 new price of £239/$299 and well OcUK is already selling them at £249 for the past few weeks with no profit, so dropping price £10 is nothing that special.

Any price protection I get for our stocks will be applied this week which will bring us in line with AMD's pricing but I shall be working on getting far better, well will try I've being full of man flu all weekend.

 

[triss]

We shall move our prices over next few days but the price drop is not that impressive, should allow us to bring a 290 down to around £215-£225 and a 290X down to around £299 which is not a huge move from our current prices due to all the hard work I did with AMD a few weeks back to get prices down and the fact we've sacrificed so much margin to try and keep AMD competitive.

So I shall be working on moving our prices but at the same time I want to try and go better as I feel a 290 needs to be £199 and a 290X about £259 or a little lower. Otherwise how can one not recommend a 970 at £250ish, it is really very hard to beat!

I'm in a good position so will be pushing very hard to get the prices I want.

Right now AMD have dropped 290 to just $299 to end user and a 970 is $329 to end user so you can easily work out the new price from AMD based on NVIDIAS uk MSRP of £259/$329 for 970 this makes 290 new price of £239/$299 and well OcUK is already selling them at £249 for the past few weeks with no profit, so dropping price £10 is nothing that special.

Any price protection I get for our stocks will be applied this week which will bring us in line with AMD's pricing but I shall be working on getting far better, well will try I've being full of man flu all weekend.

Man flu is terrible its amazing us guys can even live through it Hope you get better soon!

 

[whyscotty]

Breaking news -

You buy new cards and 12 to 18mths later you lose over 50% of the purchase price.

anything you get back from selling your old cards is just a bonus.

^^^
This

 

[Marine-RX179]

Breaking news -

You buy new cards and 12 to 18mths later you lose over 50% of the purchase price.

This is why the more expensive a graphic card you buy, the more it hurt when it comes to devaluing (for people that care about reselling value that is)

 

[Besty]

Not something I would ever know, I dont push my GPU's that much for the type memory to even matter.

General rule of thumb - Hynix if on air, Samsung for everything else.

Reason - Hynix can be pushed harder without voltage increases and the timings can be set differently. Samsung likes and scales better than Hynix with voltage increases and so is suited to Water and extreme overclocking.

 

[Gregster]

My job pays for my computer parts and I will be hanging onto these 3 Titans for the foreseeable future. Of course I will take a big hit when selling them and will have to accept it but it will hurt a little (hence why I said that).

Good effort though

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I made a profit on my HD5850 1GB after nearly two years of using it!

 

[Mal X]

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So I shall be working on moving our prices but at the same time I want to try and go better as I feel a 290 needs to be £199 and a 290X about £259 or a little lower. Otherwise how can one not recommend a 970 at £250ish, it is really very hard to beat!

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you wont be able to sell them at any price, the 790 is way too good.

 

[Uncle Petey]

That's right, Mal. You tell Gibbo what's what.

 

[Jamielicious]

A 290 at £199 sounds about the right price given the 970s power use and overclocking prowess.

AMD really need a 3XX and fast!

 

[Kaapstad]

you wont be able to sell them at any price, the 790 is way too good.

I think I would rather have a performance card like a HD7990 myself.

 

[triss]

That's right, Mal. You tell Gibbo what's what.

Lol ,, 290's are still a good card for the $$ especially if you want mantle plus iirc they still come with the gamecodes?

 

[Uncle Petey]

It's a bit early in the day, so I forgive any sarcasm detector malfunctions

 

[Rusty0611]

I'd be tempted for a Tri-X OC at £220 but would more than likely get a second hand one at the revised rate.

 

[Gibbo]

you wont be able to sell them at any price, the 790 is way too good.

They are selling at current prices, so how wrong are you.........

If we can hit £199 we think they will sell very well, because power usage aside the 290/290X is still one very powerful GPU.

 

[Kaapstad]

you wont be able to sell them at any price, the 790 is way too good.

Come and show us what your new card has got on the Sniper Elite V3 bench, we could do with some more green scores.