Sub £400 1080 any time soon?

DONOHUE07 · 8 Jun 2018 at 15:19

So I’ve been saving for what seems like a life time, and with the news that a new NVIDIA GPU isn’t coming any time soon (and to me that makes perfect sense, no competition and currant GPU’s are still selling, and at launch RRP prices..) there’s some money burning a hole in my wallet, I’m looking at a 1080, every now and then I see one drop to around £430, does anyone think we will see one drop below £400? I could pay more but I stubbornly refuse to pay anymore than £400 on a graphics card.

Currently running a r9-290 and I game on my 1080p 60hz TV, though I mostly play VR on Oculus Rift now

ChocoViennese · 8 Jun 2018 at 15:26

You may be able to get a 1070ti at that price, close enough to 1080 performance out the box and easily able to match stock 1080 if you overclock it?

jigger · 8 Jun 2018 at 15:28

You might be able to buy the first version of the 1080 for that money.

w00dy85 · 8 Jun 2018 at 15:41

I got a 1080 for £410 last week, cost me £460 with £50 cash back.

Psycho Sonny · 8 Jun 2018 at 16:33

that is cheap. i paid £400 for a second hand one around 6-8 months ago

imginy · 8 Jun 2018 at 18:12

When you get one on offer they are pretty close to that price anyway.

JediFragger · 8 Jun 2018 at 19:16

Yes, it's called a 1070Ti. With a manual OC tweak it's just a couple of fps off a 1080.

w00dy85 · 8 Jun 2018 at 20:28

Psycho Sonny said:
that is cheap. i paid £400 for a second hand one around 6-8 months ago

Thought the same and so bought it.

I was not even looking for a GPU as I was happy with my 1070, which I had since day of release. But I game at a 1440 on a 144hz panel, so the extra power of the 1080 Will be helpful.

Psycho Sonny · 8 Jun 2018 at 20:37

w00dy85 said:
Thought the same and so bought it.

I was not even looking for a GPU as I was happy with my 1070, which I had since day of release. But I game at a 1440 on a 144hz panel, so the extra power of the 1080 Will be helpful.

Same is it the dell?

w00dy85 · 8 Jun 2018 at 20:50

Psycho Sonny said:
Same is it the dell?

No I wanted an IPS panel so got a Asus MG279Q

Gtiracer · 9 Jun 2018 at 04:03

DONOHUE07 said:
So I’ve been saving for what seems like a life time, and with the news that a new NVIDIA GPU isn’t coming any time soon (and to me that makes perfect sense, no competition and currant GPU’s are still selling, and at launch RRP prices..) there’s some money burning a hole in my wallet, I’m looking at a 1080, every now and then I see one drop to around £430, does anyone think we will see one drop below £400? I could pay more but I stubbornly refuse to pay anymore than £400 on a graphics card.

Currently running a r9-290 and I game on my 1080p 60hz TV, though I mostly play VR on Oculus Rift now

Ill get you a box of buns to go with those currant GPUs

Sorry.

chaparral · 10 Jun 2018 at 20:53

jigger said:
You might be able to buy the first version of the 1080 for that money.

There two versions of the 1080 ? :confused:

Spyhop · 10 Jun 2018 at 21:02

chaparral said:
There two versions of the 1080 ?

They revved it with higher bandwidth memory chips last year

opethdisciple · 10 Jun 2018 at 21:07

MM you should be able to find a sub £400 1080.

McGraw · 10 Jun 2018 at 21:10

Currant GPUs are indeed still selling...if I were you I’d keep “raisin” funds.

chaparral · 10 Jun 2018 at 21:23

Spyhop said:
They revved it with higher bandwidth memory chips last year

Thanks

I never knew that

...guess I have the slower one...

JediFragger · 10 Jun 2018 at 23:07

chaparral said:
guess I have the slower one...

Don't worry about it, most of us are slow on here

T.Kay · 11 Jun 2018 at 00:23

Any time soon will depend on when the new cards will be out, unfortunately.

Spyhop · 11 Jun 2018 at 09:13

chaparral said:
Thanks

I never knew that ...guess I have the slower one...

Can't be a big deal, since hardly ever do people make the distinction!

Pocah · 11 Jun 2018 at 12:19

NVIDIA themselves believed ( a few months back ) that prices would not normalise until the end of this year. My guess is that as soon as they get close to normal then they will release the new 11 series. So around Oct, Nov. Course, everyone has a different opionion about that, some are saying July, which I think is stopping a lot of folk from buying right now.