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1080ti prices. Has everyone got a screw loose?

I'm looking at getting a 1080ti as it's the missing piece in my rig.
What do people recommend going for?
Seen the aorus extreme get mentioned a fair bit.
Ideally don't want to pay nearly 1k but fed up of getting 10-15 fps on games like x plane.
Also need a monitor as still on 1080 at the moment.
 
mrbazmondo said:
Don't buy the ultra cheap ones off ebay, they are a scam. I got my money returned by paypal the day after buying.
I was just hoping someone that didn't know the value was clearing stock form a failed business as they were selling 30 x 1080 ti for £80
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There are loads that go on ebay for £100-£150. The listing usually last a few hours at most before getting removed
 
I bought my EVGA 1080ti SC2 Hybrid for £820 exactly 12 months ago and now the only new one I can find in stock in the UK is £950 on Amazon, mental.

They are on eBay for around £740 including shipping from the U.S. though.
 
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They are an investment at the moment, if I decided to give up PC usage tomorrow I'd make a profit on my GTX1080. I imagine the next 6 months it'll be the same, would have to be very strategic to sell at a profit so I don't have to shell more on a newer GPU, if I can be bothered to do that I'm not sure, as I guess if news was a new GPU was out in a month's time, the price of a GTX1080 should I decide to sell at that point would shoot down, and I'd probably then be waiting about 4 months to get one in stock due to initial stock getting sucked up by miners. That's my expectation/forecast anyway.
 
class2ldn said:
What do people recommend going for?
Seen the aorus extreme get mentioned a fair bit.
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I might be biased because I have this card but it's a beast!
I saw a few 1080Ti review videos on YouTube before I decided and bought it @£899.
The guy on one review said he purchased it for around £850 12 months ago whereas the reference cards were going at around £700.
I'm not sure how much these cards were going for then as I wasn't looking at the time, but if that's the case I didn't think I paid too much over the odds.
 
I'm tempted on selling my GTX1080 for 650 and getting a GTX1080Ti, but I wonder if I could sell my GTX1080 when the 2080 or whatever are released and only have to spend £200 on top for the next top end card?
 
willhub said:
I'm tempted on selling my GTX1080 for 650 and getting a GTX1080Ti, but I wonder if I could sell my GTX1080 when the 2080 or whatever are released and only have to spend £200 on top for the next top end card?
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I would have thought the 1080 won't be worth as much when they come out because serious miners will want the new cards
 
willhub said:
I'm tempted on selling my GTX1080 for 650 and getting a GTX1080Ti, but I wonder if I could sell my GTX1080 when the 2080 or whatever are released and only have to spend £200 on top for the next top end card?
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Your better off selling now if you don’t want to loose any money.

As with every new release previous gen cards will drop in price.

980Ti went from £5-600 to struggling to even get £200-250 overnight. Which due to mining gradually built back up.
 
tyler_jrb said:
Your better off selling now if you don’t want to loose any money.

As with every new release previous gen cards will drop in price.

980Ti went from £5-600 to struggling to even get £200-250 overnight. Which due to mining gradually built back up.
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I'd say if I loose money on it, as long as if I add 200-300 MAX to it to get a top end card, I'm thinking about the end of this year maybe beginning of next now as I'll want to run max settings at 4k on newer games.
 
Boycey0211 said:
Aye, the only reason I haven't gone elsewhere yet is because prices are still inflated beyond what I would be happy to pay.

That said, from all my browsing competitors are offering products at a VERY significant price difference compared to OCUK, well beyond any question of good customer service.

I'm not sure if OCUK are really keeping the edge anymore, less stock and a more inflated price? It never used to be like this.
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Overclockers are a large stockist. Justin because purchase prices are low, doesn’t change what was paid for the stock.

If they’re buying new stock at lower cost and retaining high sale price, then I couldn’t agree more.
 
WantoN said:
Overclockers are a large stockist. Justin because purchase prices are low, doesn’t change what was paid for the stock.

If they’re buying new stock at lower cost and retaining high sale price, then I couldn’t agree more.
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At the time of writing that post OCUK had significantly less stock than competitors, with a higher price to match.

All of a sudden theres stock in and the prices drop all across the board? Thats not how supply and demand works. Thats how having stock priced higher than everyone else works. Bit like a DFS sale.

Call me cynical but I'm not the only one here thinking prices are too high to justify, and thats across all sellers not just ocuk. However it has highlighted to me that good customer service can't make up for £100 in my mind.

That and the fact that mining rigs are taking a lot longer to shift cards on in the MM that we would see normally too, months and years gone by I would be lucky to even look at a thread before its sold, now its days.
 
Yeah I realised I quoted an older post.

For the most part, I couldn’t agree more with you.

I don’t understand the point you’re making regarding supply and demand, that’s almost exactly how it works, at least to me.

If you commit to higher MOQs then you’re bound to have more stock than competitors who do not.

Shifting old stock as much as possible before commiting to new deliveries with revised prices is key. If you’re stocking some equipment at a much higher price, you’re mad to start undercutting yourself; you’ll never shift the older stock and make margin.

Once you’ve sold all or enough, then you bring in new stock with sale prices to reflect appropriate margins on the new cost.

Happy to be told where the hole in my logic is, I’m sure there’s plenty.
 
WantoN said:
Yeah I realised I quoted an older post.

For the most part, I couldn’t agree more with you.

I don’t understand the point you’re making regarding supply and demand, that’s almost exactly how it works, at least to me.

If you commit to higher MOQs then you’re bound to have more stock than competitors who do not.

Shifting old stock as much as possible before commiting to new deliveries with revised prices is key. If you’re stocking some equipment at a much higher price, you’re mad to start undercutting yourself; you’ll never shift the older stock and make margin.

Once you’ve sold all or enough, then you bring in new stock with sale prices to reflect appropriate margins on the new cost.

Happy to be told where the hole in my logic is, I’m sure there’s plenty.
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No I think we're just looking at it from two different points of view.

If the 1080ti's were selling like 'hot cakes' at the higher price as soon as they get stock which has been said (can't fault them for being a business I guess) then why instantly drop prices when you get new stock in?

Its not so much old stock as restocking, the only reason in my mind to drop prices is because you overestimated and now you have too much of the stock and haven't worked out how much demand there is, with the drop in crypto value and gamers not being taken for mugs this might explain it.

I imagine the lead times on cards with this 'shortage' are fairly high, so its not a ridiculous thought that maybe the market changed in the meantime.

Either way for the first time in 10 years I've thought about taking my business elsewhere, and won't be touching the MM with a bargepole for the scalpers to make their money back that way. Its a hell of a shame as now my christmas treat for myself is non existent too.
 
I think people just need to suck it up and pay the price if they want a new GPU (or not and wait for prices to go down, only for new tech to arrive that's quicker)

Personally I got a 1080Ti last week for £700 and sold my 980Ti to offset the price

In terms of performance increase, Valley 1080p Extreme HD preset;

780Ti 80FPS
980Ti 110FPS
1080Ti 140FPS

980Ti > 1080Ti cost me £350 to upgrade
780Ti > 980Ti cost me £300 to upgrade
 
Guest2 said:
I think people just need to suck it up and pay the price if they want a new GPU (or not and wait for prices to go down, only for new tech to arrive that's quicker)

Personally I got a 1080Ti last week for £700 and sold my 980Ti to offset the price
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are you happy with the upgrade?

I’m on a single 980 these days and have itchy fingers.
 
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