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PREPARE YOUR WALLETS: ASUS ROG MATRIX 2080Ti LANDS THIS WEEK!!

I am shocked and not much gets to me on here it is not even a Titan. Buying one of these is like a first class ticket to hell for wasting money lol.

Also how long do you think the fans last on a card this expensive? They put that thought in right? You can order easy replacements on the Asus site to save you a couple of weeks RMA and greasy fingerprints.
 
Aren't fans these days rated for like 5 years of 24/7 use?

I've never kept any component or fans long enough for them to die

On the other hand, my mini usb desk fans need replacing every 6 months because they keep dying...
 
The door is wide open for Navi if it can bring decent performance for under £500. Doesn't need to be world beating, just an upgrade for the masses that doesn't cost the earth.
 
These products are only ever niche products designed to sell to people who want the most expensive thing regardless. Like million dollar cars, or phone cases covered in diamonds, or thirty thousand pound handbags, they are there for those who want to say they spent so much money to get something purely because it's expensive and rare. They will produce and sell very few of these, it's almost being done as marketing more than selling.

When Nvidia started pushing prices up in order to keep sales down of high binned products that had a very limited run, the idea was to counterbalance the lack of units on a halo/marketing product. I'm sure they were as surprised as anyone at the relatively high demand, and have been pushing prices up almost as an experiment to see how far they could go. This Strix is just a further example of Asus seeing how far the envelope can be pushed for a small run, marketing led product.
 
In comes Gibbo to say "We've already sold 10,000,000!!! Better buy fast as the price is going to go up!"

Uh huh. No one wants 2080Ti at stupid Nvidia prices. I actually hope you were embarrassed making this post.
 
beany_bot said:
In comes Gibbo to say "We've already sold 10,000,000!!! Better buy fast as the price is going to go up!"

Uh huh. No one wants 2080Ti at stupid Nvidia prices. I actually hope you were embarrassed making this post.
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Plenty are buying them, just not a smash like pascal was so not need to be so hyperbolic. While this is one freakishly pricey card I do appreciate the engineering then when into the PCB and fitting a Good size AIO cooler while keeping to a normal slot base format unlike other hybrids.

If people want to buy it let them, I still be sticking with my 1080ti until theirs a replacement/upgrade at a similar price weather be Nvidia, AMD (roflol) or looking more likely Intel with Xe.
 
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I'm not sure an entire generation can fit the definition of a niche product. The Asus high fps 4k monitor is a niche product.
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To be fair, it's only the high end that is overpriced - 1660, 1660ti and 2060 are good value for money.

Also, people tend to be very harsh on PC hardware prices, but will blow $1k a year on a new phone when it's nearly exactly the same as the phone they had last year
 
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Plenty are buying them,
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I doubt it.

What does the latest Steam hardware survey say? I bet most people are still using 1060s, as they were last year and the year before.

Vega64 is staying in my PC probably forever now. Most of the best games are oldies anyway, there's maybe 1-2 games in the last few years which have been worth buying. So why upgrade...
 
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Yes most are 1060's but Steam survey has several issues with Valve has acknowledged

A huge portion of those 1060's are in China, owned by internet cafe machines - not saying that is should be disregarded, just that China as a market is so huge that it can skew what we try to use as a source of market data here.

Steam's hardware survey's are delayed and not timely - I learnt how this works from the other day from a posting by Valve. Steam only surveys your PC ONCE PER YEAR. So for example let's say my PC was surveyed yesterday, then tomorrow I buy a 1660ti - my 1660ti won't be reflected in the steam survey for another 364 days.. Which means you actually have to wait a long time to get an accurate picture of sales numbers by using Steam's data.

So Steam is unfortunately not a good or timely measure of market trends and statistics.
 
Grim5 said:
To be fair, it's only the high end that is overpriced - 1660, 1660ti and 2060 are good value for money.

Also, people tend to be very harsh on PC hardware prices, but will blow $1k a year on a new phone when it's nearly exactly the same as the phone they had last year
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The 2070 & 2080 are not high end, they have been redefined as high end due to the high price. Your point regarding smart phones is also misplaced as people don't spend £1k every year on a similar device, they have stopped buying them every year specifically due to high price and lack of innovation.
 
String said:
The 2070 & 2080 are not high end, they have been redefined as high end due to the high price. Your point regarding smart phones is also misplaced as people don't spend £1k every year on a similar device, they have stopped buying them every year specifically due to high price and lack of innovation.
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I still have some friends who do it, not all of them are gamers anyway - one friend in particular buys a new phone and new tv every single year - goodness only knows why
 
Grim5 said:
I still have some friends who do it, not all of them are gamers anyway - one friend in particular buys a new phone and new tv every single year - goodness only knows why
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I had to downgrade a few graphics settings to play division 2 but my 980Ti is holding out well. I won't be getting one of these, would sooner put that money into my mortgage or home improvements.
 
Grim5 said:
Yes most are 1060's but Steam survey has several issues with Valve has acknowledged

A huge portion of those 1060's are in China, owned by internet cafe machines - not saying that is should be disregarded, just that China as a market is so huge that it can skew what we try to use as a source of market data here.

Steam's hardware survey's are delayed and not timely - I learnt how this works from the other day from a posting by Valve. Steam only surveys your PC ONCE PER YEAR. So for example let's say my PC was surveyed yesterday, then tomorrow I buy a 1660ti - my 1660ti won't be reflected in the steam survey for another 364 days.. Which means you actually have to wait a long time to get an accurate picture of sales numbers by using Steam's data.

So Steam is unfortunately not a good or timely measure of market trends and statistics.
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Well the most recent survey was last month and 1060 is still at the top, followed by 1050, 1070 then 9 series cards.

The most popular RTX card is the 2070 and features WAY down at 0.63%. The 2080ti is at 0.25%
 
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With the money I had available for a new graphics card looking somewhere nice to go over easter and have lots left over. I would not be able to do that if Nvidia sensibly priced them, would have got one on release day. I owe Nvidia a big thank you.
 
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