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OcUK GUIDE TO ORDERING YOUR AMD 9070 GRAPHICS CARD TODAY AT 14:00

I've ordered it and due for delivery Tuesday. However, I still have a Nitro+ on order but now questioning which one to keep and what the difference is if both are UV/OC.
 
So much for all the doom mongering and stock shortage rubbish, it's not even been out 4 weeks and the prices are heading towards MSRP anyone who paid the etailer scalped prices in the last 14 days should return them IMO.
 
Journey said:
So much for all the doom mongering and stock shortage rubbish, it's not even been out 4 weeks and the prices are heading towards MSRP anyone who paid the etailer scalped prices in the last 14 days should return them IMO.
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Wouldn't be worth it at £650 for me as I would have to pay to send it back
 
Hotwired said:
Less than 9% over MSRP at 620

AMD actually printing enough chips to supply the higher end gaming market and bring down the price.
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This is normal behaviour. As supply meets demand, prices stabilise. We will soon find out if the MSRP is indeed fake. I would expect the more entry level models like the Pulse and the Reaper to end up just under £600 soon.
 
Tykey said:
Jesus, it's like an extra £50 is going to bankrupt some people! So what if paying a little extra so something can be enjoyed today instead of in several weeks or months time, we could be dead next week, it's a few quid FFS live a little while you can.
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I agree....for something I'll likely keep 6 or 7 years, I'm not bothered if it's a bit over msrp.. I'm ordering this week if I can grab one when back in stock and will be very happy..
 
leoncuprar said:
I agree....for something I'll likely keep 6 or 7 years, I'm not bothered if it's a bit over msrp.. I'm ordering this week if I can grab one when back in stock and will be very happy..
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around £650 with a decent aftermarket cooling solution is fine if msrp is £599 which we think it is
 
Tykey said:
Jesus, it's like an extra £50 is going to bankrupt some people! So what if paying a little extra so something can be enjoyed today instead of in several weeks or months time, we could be dead next week, it's a few quid FFS live a little while you can.
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I guess it depends how desperately you need one though. If your current card has broken or is ancient/struggling to play games I'd agree with your sentiment.

If it's just an upgrade from an already reasonable card then it's quite sensible to just wait it out a bit.

It's also a principle thing. I just don't like knowing/feeling like I've been ripped off, even if it is for only £50 or so.
 
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Tykey said:
Jesus, it's like an extra £50 is going to bankrupt some people! So what if paying a little extra so something can be enjoyed today instead of in several weeks or months time, we could be dead next week, it's a few quid FFS live a little while you can.
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Scalping is scalping and this attitude is why people and shops do it.

I'd never pay over MSRP unless I literally had no card at all so couldn't game without one and certainly wouldn't recommend others pay over MSRP.
The most I spent extra was when I paid £20 over the FE price for a Palit because the Palit would fit in my case and the FE wouldn't. That £20 extra was the MSRP of the Palit, so I still wasn't paying over MSRP for the card in question.
 
no_1_dave said:
Scalping is scalping and this attitude is why people and shops do it.

I'd never pay over MSRP unless I literally had no card at all so couldn't game without one and certainly wouldn't recommend others pay over MSRP.
The most I spent extra was when I paid £20 over the FE price for a Palit because the Palit would fit in my case and the FE wouldn't. That £20 extra was the MSRP of the Palit, so I still wasn't paying over MSRP for the card in question.
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There's some irony that if a shop raises the price due to supply/demand imbalance it deters scalpers and lets more users buy one.

If a shop holds the price down the scalpers now have a large margin as incentive to do everything possible even if its disruptive, to buy as many as possible, hoard them, and sell at street price.

Obviously a prospective user will cry about the price being higher than msrp either way but it is the lesser evil if the shop is the one that jacks up the price.
 
I’d agree that I’d rather shops do the increase as I could justify a little higher margin for them over pure greed from scalpers. Ideally it would be neither and systems would enable people to legitimately get stuff.
 
if supply was high and at MSRP scalpers wouldnt sell any,the problem is the supply is so thin on the ground its a scalpers paradise be it either the shop or 3rd party sellers.
 
Only people to blame are the gamers who bought from scalpers, you have given them the money to scalpe more.

I think the RTX 3000 series was the worst scalping I have ever seen due to COVID+ crypto mining, A whole year and there was no stock. the 4000 was a bit better but not by much, I gave up look for GPUs for 4 years.

Even now people are still buying from scalpers although the rate is not as bad as before, as I was able to buy a new GPU from a retailer in the same month it was released.

If you want to buy a GPU at MSRP then stop buying from scalpers, it's not rocket science.
 
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