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GPU prices go boom

In my option there is no other word than shameful for the way the prices have gone up. Sod economics, or mining blah blah blah. The fact is, there is absolutely nobody out there who can do anything about it so, the manufacturers literally have us by the short and curlys and by extension - the retailers too. Although I don’t believe they too aren’t doing really rather well out of this horrific greed. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you - it will come back to punch you in the face.
 
The only way to stop this is too not buy the cards, lets face it if we all do that then the prices will come down. I can wait it out rather than pay 50% more than the RRP. By the way its not Nvidia or AMD setting the prices, its the retailers.
 
gordon_freeman said:
The only way to stop this is too not buy the cards, lets face it if we all do that then the prices will come down. I can wait it out rather than pay 50% more than the RRP. By the way its not Nvidia or AMD setting the prices, its the retailers.
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True but then the miners wont stop buying them because they want to make a quick buck.
 
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BOOM! :D
 
Sasahara said:
When has Philips TVs been all TVs?
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they are the only company in the uk that sells them so they hold the monopoly for that brand... but it doesn't matter, its still does not happen in any other market... only in the world of pc components.

is there only 2 companies that make ram? no but doesn't stop them artificially inflating the price does it.
 
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String said:
You know this for sure? If so, how can that even be legal as they'd have to be colluding in order to set the price artificially high?
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well apart form the fact that nvidia are selling the titan direct cheaper than some 1080tis.. ofc its retailers and distributors, why do you think there are 0 comments from anyone in this thread from ocuk
 
henson0115 said:
they are the only company in the uk that sells them so they hold the monopoly for that brand... but it doesn't matter, its still does not happen in any other market... only in the world of pc components.

is there only 2 companies that make ram? no but doesn't stop them artificially inflating the price does it.
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Pshhh.... You used Google before this post right? I see them listed in Tesco, John Lewis, AO and more...
 
Kaapstad said:
Don't think so

Why is it you can buy a Star Wars Titan Xp for less than some of the highend 1080 Ti cards.

As to the Titan cards, they have always offered something new when they launched which early adaptors could pay a bit extra for. On the other hand an overpriced 1080 Ti is just that "overpriced" and brings nothing new to the table.
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Because people are being silly and the only people in there right mind who are buying these cards at their massively over inflated prices are miners who want to make money.

The world is nuts no wonder their is so much debt and economic inequality.
 
They should be selling the cards for normal price + limit to 1 = for gamers. Currently, 1000£ and 1 limit - they want gamers to pay extra.
Now, if you go to nvidia site, star wars edition Titan Xp, 999£. In stock. ehm...
 
henson0115 said:
well back in early 2017 it wasn't the case, didn't realise it has changed. they had a deal as far as i am aware for exclusive rights.
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I was going to hit the way back machine and have a gander but honestly I can't believe any decent tv brand would sign an exclusivity deal with a retailer that was essentially failing.
 
fat4l said:
They should be selling the cards for normal price + limit to 1 = for gamers. Currently, 1000£ and 1 limit - they want gamers to pay extra.
Now, if you go to nvidia site, star wars edition Titan Xp, 999£. In stock. ehm...
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It would be quite easy for OCuk to sell at a reduced price to Loyal forum members who have more than say 1000 posts and only 1 per customer. Easy to circumvent the miners but less profit to be made.
 
scrivz69 said:
Makes me laugh when you go on on the Nvidia website and cannot buy anything GPU wise as they have no stock. So much for trying to get retailers to stick to an agreement. Idiots.

https://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/10series/geforce-gtx-1080-ti/#buy-now

Or buy from partners.
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Nvidia for the most part are not a direct board manufacturer, they are a chip designer/fabricator, it is up to partners to actually build the boards to a design specification.

Of course, the titan xp is different, they make those, and compared to the price of the 1080ti elsewhere, the titan xp is more than reasonable.
 
Alienating your "cash cow" consumer base is never a good thing though is it, most miners wouldn't **** on you if you were on fire, if there was a better way to mine than GPU they'd be off
 
I'm sure it's costing the tech retailers as people looking to buy complete new machines are being put off by the ridiculous prices for graphics cards.

I've made quite a few machines for friends in the past, any OCuk person can look in my purchase history to verify that. I've now, just today, had a friend wanting me to build him a new computer and I've put him off due to the cost of one component. I built myself a ryzen system last year, sans grahics card, and I'm now stuck with a old graphics card that I refuse to upgrade sue to pricing being 2-3 times the norm....

I don't mind people making a profit, but this, for the genuine gamer it total ********.
 
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