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How much should you pay for a gtx 1080?

Surfer said:
Not really true though is it....

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...otac-1080-amp-only-455-99-delivered.18772976/

Dunno why the 1080 price magically jumps £100 ish in a few months if 1080s havent been affected...
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This was a mix of bankrupt stock (a UK distributor went bust: Enta Technology) and aged stock from other distributors because 1080 sales had slowed. So the pricing was not the normal, I purchased it from distributors who sold to me at a loss or heavily funded it with marketing money. Which can be clearly seen from how much cheaper OcUK was than its competitors on those 1080 deals at the time. :)
 
KonfuciousK said:
When AMD bring the fight to them. Looking like RX Vega is going to be the perfectly placed around/under 1080 performance and, knowing the Red team, they will be priced relatively fairly for the consumer. I don't expect as big a market % shift as the Polaris launch had but I can bet there will be a lot of humming and hawing at purchase time among even the more hardcore FanVidia crowd. Not to mention Freesync.
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If some of the reports regarding the Vega FE's mining prowess are to be believed then this may not be the case as if the RX version performs as well and initial availability is low due to HBM shortage then they could sell out ASAP and command high prices. Pure speculation of course.
 
amigafan2003 said:
90 days warranty with OCUK - you still get full manufacturers warranty.
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As far as I can see its clearly stated on the page for B grade items that any reference to warranty should be ignored as it is 90 days:

Below is the original description for this product, any reference to warranty is to be ignored. Warranty for this item is 90 days as with all B Grade items.

B Grade items may have been used, have damaged packaging, missing accessories or a combination of these.

Some items may have scuff marks or slight scratches but should otherwise be an operable product.
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Its also been widely stated in these forums that some manufacturers will not honour a warranty on transfer of ownership of graphics cards, it is clearly stated by OCUK that some of these items may be used.

I'm just saying that as it reads I would rather pay the extra £60 or so for the full manufacturers warranty and not play roulette with my money.

Just my opinion, but maybe one of the OCUK staff could clarify the warranty situations with regards to B grade GPU's.
 
i bought a evga 1070 ftw b grade from here a while back and registered it with evga and got full warranty with option to extend too.
 
Bah, now I'm thinking about cancelling my 1070 order (the place I ordered it from doesn't have any in stock anyway, so it's anyone's guess when I'd get it and what price it would be) and buying one of those relatively cheap 1080s from OcUK instead.

I was initially planning on buying a 2nd hand card in the £200 region. The 7950 I'm still using cost me £100 second hand and was a very good buy. I thought I could get something quite good for £200 second hand. But no. So I thought I'd wait for Vega, but that's looking distinctly mediocre and very unlikely to be the quiet card I'm after. Besides, I only have a 650W PSU. A good one that really is 650W, but only 650W. I'd need to buy a 2nd PSU like it to power a Vega card :) So I thought I'd buy a 1070, but by then 1070's had gone into the "we'll charge you silly money and we haven't got any anyway" territory. I found one a good one advertised for £350 and ordered it, but checked the small print for that business and found that the contract is made (and therefore the price set) on dispatch, not on ordering. It's up to £450 now. And they still don't have any or any idea when they will have any.

£450 for a 1080 is a decent price...but it's 3 times as much as I've paid for a graphics card before and that niggles at me even though I now have oodles of spare money and don't need to care. It just seems too much for a graphics card for me. Also, I wouldn't be able to find reviews of that particular card and I really want a quiet card.

Or I could say "enough" and buy a console. They're not utter rubbish any more.

Or I could have a cup of tea and sleep on it. Maybe Vega RX will be an amazing surprise and not a bit below a 1080 in price and performance but hotter, louder and using 2 or 3 times as much power. Maybe.
 
I feel good about getting my 290X a while back for £130.

Unless you buy preowned then someone along the chain is mugging you :p

(most likely Jen-Hsun)
 
Kirby Wurm said:
If some of the reports regarding the Vega FE's mining prowess are to be believed then this may not be the case as if the RX version performs as well and initial availability is low due to HBM shortage then they could sell out ASAP and command high prices. Pure speculation of course.
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You're right about shortages, almost guaranteed. But in reality that's maybe 5% of the real gaming market squabbling with a few lunatic miners while AMD stocks rise - not to mention market exposure as an arguable gpu king - hopefully leading to better mid-range or crossfire cut-down vegas and deals for the patient. The former is speculation, the latter wishful thinking but there is logic somewhere in my thinking.

They've pulled something short of a miracle with Polaris, Ryzen and soon Threadripper so the Force is strong in this one. :)
 
Aye, here's hoping! Sadly it looks like while AMD's star rises in the CPU market it's GPU division is in decline (at least in the high-end).
 
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