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UK pricing, wtf?
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FTFY.
Thanks...
Are you suggesting that they would be the exact same price if we'd remained and it was $1.60 to the £?
Really?
Seconds after seeing the 1080 in stock, I saw the Titan news.
Though I wont buy one, I think thats a nail in the coffin of my 1080 thoughts.
Maybe buy a 1440p monitor to go with the 1070....though that makes me want a 1080 even more lol.
Though I wont buy one, I think thats a nail in the coffin of my 1080 thoughts.
Maybe buy a 1440p monitor to go with the 1070....though that makes me want a 1080 even more lol.
If it helps my 1070 runs 1440p stuff great
My issue is, I dont see the point in a high hz monitor, if you arent running at or near it.
I have 120hz now, if i can only run 60, my monitor is wasted?
So buying a 144hz 1440p, seems silly, if the 1070 cant run anything at that. I mean I dont need max settings, I usually tweak to make stuff like Battlefield etc easiest to see people, best for being competitive, rather than prettiest.
No, I am suggesting that the £ to $ would not have been 1.60 as before all of this it was 1.42. Now it's 1.32 so 10 cents less than it was before the vote, Now that makes a $550 card a $605 card, so yes $55 difference in an already overpriced card imo.
I think If we had stayed in the eu the price would still be £600 but no Brexit to blame so it would be the same as every new release, Way overpriced cards for what they do, play games.
Not sure how that works though? Prices were set before the result of BREXIT was known.
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I'm not convinced it's entirely down to Brexit either, especially as it hasn't happened yet. 
I've just gone back through my records to see how much the parts for my recent major system upgrade were when I bought them a few days after the referendum. Incidentally, they were the same price then (within 0.5% in total) as they had been the week before.
Taking the old prices for the CPU, motherboard, RAM, HSF, M.2 SSD and BD-ROM drive and comparing them to today's prices, there's only been an average price increase on those particular components of around 5%.
The prices for these particular items are always up and down like a yoyo anyway, so I'm not sure whether today's prices are representative of where the current pricing is in reality. At least it's some kind of a reference I guess.
I've just gone back through my records to see how much the parts for my recent major system upgrade were when I bought them a few days after the referendum. Incidentally, they were the same price then (within 0.5% in total) as they had been the week before.
Taking the old prices for the CPU, motherboard, RAM, HSF, M.2 SSD and BD-ROM drive and comparing them to today's prices, there's only been an average price increase on those particular components of around 5%.
The prices for these particular items are always up and down like a yoyo anyway, so I'm not sure whether today's prices are representative of where the current pricing is in reality. At least it's some kind of a reference I guess.
I'm not convinced it's entirely down to Brexit either, especially as it hasn't happened yet.
Jesus. Our education system has clearly failed.
Are people not saying, that this is because of the exchange rate, rather than Brexit (though its a by product)
That said, id also have thought that a shipment delivered this week for example, had already been 'bought' agreed a price for, weeks ago ?
Obviously, the exchange rate will drive prices up, as $700 dollars is worth a lot more now against the £
That said, id also have thought that a shipment delivered this week for example, had already been 'bought' agreed a price for, weeks ago ?
Obviously, the exchange rate will drive prices up, as $700 dollars is worth a lot more now against the £
I don't recall having politics as a subject at school so maybe your right.
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Question 1 will they even buy in sterling? With case King they could buy in euros..
Question 2 will their suppliers even quote in sterling or will they quote in dollars and then ocuk sort the price when they pay based upon the £/$...
Question 2 will their suppliers even quote in sterling or will they quote in dollars and then ocuk sort the price when they pay based upon the £/$...
Ay? That is based on the dollar MSRP. Almost all the cards are bought in dollars.
I think they only buy Palit in sterling which is why they are one of the cheapest ( for a overclocked, good cooler etc)
Gibbo has said most are bought in dollars.
They're bought in dollars, and paid for 30 days AFTER the order is delivered hence everyone is hedging their prices incase/when the pound slips even further, which it will when interest rates and quantitive easing measures are announced by the Bank of England in August. If you want my advice buy a card now before they become even more expensive and you've no money left in your wage packet because everything else is more expensive as well. And for all those people going on about how the USA and China are queueing up to do trade deals with us, they are because they smell blood, we're desperate and have virtually no trade negiotiators compared to their hundreds and they think they can get a better deal than when we were in the EU. The editor of the financial times said this is the worst thing to happen to this country since the war, but I'm sure all the armchair economists on here know better naturally. Literally, Jesus wept.
Jesus wept. Edit - no I love this idea, let's send our puny army out to semi enslave 1/2 the world and forget the entire economic and political landscape has completely and utterly changed since then. Let's just conveniently forget that and carry on like the British empire is like a thing.
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