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I didnt realise that they were much cheaper. I thought they were always >£600
Still over priced at £500.
No it isn't.
Agreed.Still over priced at £500.
So the strengthening of the £ is causing the current price drops. A lack of high end gfx card competition from AMD means Nvidia dont have to worry about pricing too much. Guess the only way cards to get cheaper cards is with £ value increasing.
So the strengthening of the £ is causing the current price drops. A lack of high end gfx card competition from AMD means Nvidia dont have to worry about pricing too much. Guess the only way cards to get cheaper cards is with £ value increasing.
I bet has nothing to do with this, just marketing trickery by Gibbo.
If a currency becomes worth less then you get less of other currencies in exchange for it. That's what worth less means. So if a good is priced in a foreign currency (e.g. because Nvidia is an American company), then it costs more pounds to buy. So of course exchange rates have something to do with it.
The idiocy of some people not understanding / believing this defies belief.
If the pound has strengthened does that mean all the 1080s are coming down by the same amount?
No it isn't.
I remember well Gibbo saying that they buy currency in advance for future orders, so any currency fluctuation has nothing to do with yesterday's price drop on 2 reference cards.
Which possibly ordered and paid when the currency was much higher......
If you need to ask when the 1080 will make it's way into your financial budget zone, then you should realise that the 1080 is not marketed at you. The 1080 exists in order that it can be compared to the 1070 and therefore drive the sales of the 1070. Anyone buying or having bought the 1080 doesn't really have a budget governed by price/performance ratio.
By the time the 1080 is at an acceptable price/performance ratio, we'll all be buying 1080ti's.