OcUK had 6600 XTs for £330 at launch a couple of months ago. Even for a week after launch you could buy a fantastic model like the Sapphire Pulse or Nitro for less than the cheapest of those 6600s. Not sure what happened this time.and they still sell, OC is a business, most business is about making profits and lots of them, so why folk so surprised?, plus gpu's have been at silly prices for ages now, not as if its stopped those from buying, i bought a series s instead and happy with that,till it all dies down in a few yrs,lol. businesses laughing all the way to the bank, because folk keep buying doesnt matter how high the price goes, there still be buyers. and if if you think for one minute businesses give a toss about its customers, think again.
if no one buys prices fall, simple economics how much can we shaft customers until they say enough
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OcUK RX6600 review thread
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Yeah doesn't make any sense. What else doesn't make any sense is why people who were gonna buy around the £400 mark didn't already buy a 6600xt as it was not long ago. These 6600s at £400 is just bizarre.
Well, I guess there would be a big market for a 75W version though. If they could offer a 6500 at under 75W it might appeal to a lot OEM users. But even the 1650 Super / Ti would normally never sell at anywhere near £300.
Money no objective, I wonder whether whether 6600 / 6700 XT or 6800 when downclocked and undervolted would have the best perf/watt. Rather suspect perf/watt really wants as much cache as possible so the memory bus can be downclocked too.
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No one uses RT on a budget card, even at 540p upscaled its rubbish
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If Gibbo manages to negotiate a limited price of £299 I'll get one. That's not too much of a stretch considering the 6600XT started as low as £329 I believe.
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Crazy!The cards are sold out at £400
But colder months, the run up to Xmas and so on now makes the talk of renewed shortages coming up which I mostly dismissed in the summer look real.
No idea if sales are just crazy or what.
Maybe Sony are really pushing for more PS5s, but that would only affect AMD since Nvidia are on Samsung's 8nm. I did notice that a certain high street seller off used stuff put up all their GPU prices at the beginning of the week, which is a bad sign.
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Lol, I thought these went on sale tomorrow for some reason. Did any list below the £399 ones on the current stock page?
If the XT's were below this, that's a tough pill to swallow.
The cheapest I saw in stock at another retailer was £379.99 this was later in the day when it was in stock still, earlier in the day I missed the release and didn't see any cheaper prices that were actually in stock. Seems everywhere they are sold out now anyways. Sadly this says a lot about next gen pricing to come as 2-4 year old level of cards are now basically £400 and aimed at 1080p... You know while 8K is coming out and will be the norm in 5 years probably like how they forced 4k tvs on us by removing 1080p tvs from the market.
OCUK didn't sell any from what was said on the forums so guessing they waited for other retailers to sell out and then well price it as high as they can and sell them that way, now they know even cheap models sold for over £400... so the prices will start there I guess when they sell whatever stock they have.
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I hear ya. I thought we were pushing to finally get gamers onto 1440p not go backwards. Considering the release 6600XT's were around £350, was expecting even a small sample to start the regular 6600s at £299.
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I laughed when I saw a few versions priced higher than a 6600xt.
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If you pay what the retailers list them at prices will never come down.
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Do these mine well?
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Absolute madness. Great 1080p card for <£200, **** take for anything else.
Sadly people on something like an old 960 or X390 and want to play games now don't have much choice, bar second hand
Sadly people on something like an old 960 or X390 and want to play games now don't have much choice, bar second hand
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from the SOAT video, these are 32mhash for 60w (for ETH) and similar efficiency for ERGO and RVN, so yes they are.
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Would be a decent upgrade for the R9 380/ RX480/ RX570's I have in the Kid's and my PCs. Realistically though it's £200-£250 level of performance at best
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AMD/Nvidia price collusion by implied silent consent