I get being frustrated. To me it seems the frutration would lie with the seller rather than AMD though. It's not AMD's site that's falling apart.
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I get being frustrated. To me it seems the frutration would lie with the seller rather than AMD though. It's not AMD's site that's falling apart.
The more you pay, the more you save.If you can bag one for £30 or £40 more its worth it to get one....
Definitely not a paper launch, the QTY was there, unfortunately so was the demand. Every retailer that I could see, had stock and likely lots of it, it just all sold out. Would have been much worse if they had launched in January/February as may have been planned.
I imagine someone just robbed their warehouse of the stock while they were all focused on the website crashing.Looks like OcUK have taken the site down now, prolly a good idea, reset everything.
"..after a few words from today's sponsor: AMD""We will be back shortly..."
The site just now says "We will be back shortly".
It just shows the state of the market. An average card can generate so much noise - why? Because there is at least a glimmer of normality to the cards pricing (still think it needs to be better, personally, but it's a step).But what is the cause for such crazy demand though?
I don't understand it. I have understood previous crazy sell out launches...but this one? Very odd.
They arent money printers like the 3xxx series. They arent offering big performance gains like the 4xxx series.
Its just a kind of reasonably priced mid range card (at rrp), with similar performance to things that were £100-£200 more expensive over a year ago.
The hype is bizarre. truly bizarre.
But what is the cause for such crazy demand though.
I don't understand it.
They arent money printers like the 3xxx series. They arent offering big performance gains like the 4xxx series.
Its just a kind of reasonably priced mid range card (at rrp), with similar performance to things that were £100-£200 more expensive over a year ago.
The hype is bizarre. truly bizarre.
Because the scalping mentality over the last few years has become more and more prevelant. Almost anything with low stock numbers people will try to scalp.
Because the scalping mentality over the last few years has become more and more prevelant. Almost anything with low stock numbers people will try to scalp.
Is it not possible for OCUK to temporarily rent more sever capacity on launch days?