When are we expecting the 780s to come down in price?

saintdefender · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:13

Would like to pick one up , not desperately which is why I ask about the price drop.

Thanks guys

AlamoX · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:15

when ppl stop buying it i guess

jimhaumman · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:16

passey89 · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:17

when the 880 has a release date

Razor Time · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:17

When the 8 series arrive.

pgi947 · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:21

Its already had its price drop

If its too much for you just now, wait for special daily/weekly offers, they've been south of £350 a few times

Jono8 · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:28

When the 800 series comes out. Looking forward to the sub £300 Ti's

Orangey · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:37

Jono8 said:
When the 800 series comes out. Looking forward to the sub £300 Ti's

Never happen! :eek:

Silent_Scone · 13 Jul 2014 at 21:46

pgi947 said:
Its already had its price drop

If its too much for you just now, wait for special daily/weekly offers, they've been south of £350 a few times

Yep. GTX range will probably go EOL when the next big drop happens

tommybhoy · 14 Jul 2014 at 00:50

saintdefender said:
When are we expecting the 780s to come down in price?

Probably when they are eol and gibbo gets a stock clearance deal(like the msi 67/80's) to get rid of them after the 880's launch.

Rroff · 14 Jul 2014 at 00:52

Yeah people are buying em at those prices so I don't see them coming down without a replacement card solidly on the horizon.

Tohrazer · 14 Jul 2014 at 01:00

when the 8** series come out i guess they might get sold off cheaper

Orangey · 14 Jul 2014 at 01:18

tommybhoy said:
Probably when they are eol and gibbo gets a stock clearance deal(like the msi 67/80's) to get rid of them after the 880's launch.

Ahh, the Power Editions, basically a Lightning for sub-200 which was amazing at the time.

Seems so long ago. I think a lot of people still have SLI setups acquired during that deal.

McGraw · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:13

Depends how many are left when the 8 series come out.

Could be kept at a similar price for people who want a 2nd in the future.

Disco_P · 14 Jul 2014 at 13:09

Orangey said:
Ahh, the Power Editions, basically a Lightning for sub-200 which was amazing at the time. Seems so long ago. I think a lot of people still have SLI setups acquired during that deal.

August 6th 2013, 680 power edition for £260. I remember just being blown away by how cheap that was, and all the calls to my bank trying to prove OcUK was a legit business.

As for 780 price drops, they have slowly being falling down with sub £350 cards becoming quite common, but don't expect a massive price collapse until maxwell or the next AMD architecture.

FoxEye · 14 Jul 2014 at 13:11

nVidia and "price drop" in the same sentence?

This is madness!

Disco_P · 14 Jul 2014 at 13:43

FoxEye said:
nVidia and "price drop" in the same sentence?

This is madness!

It did happen after 290(x) came out. Kicked them into gear somewhat after using titan's ridiculous price to justify 780's big butt price.

Resa69 · 14 Jul 2014 at 19:49

I don't think they will drop that much further, maybe when retailers clear out remaining stock after maxwell or new amd cards get released (nobody knows when that is). There are many 780s currently going for under £350

bemaniac · 15 Jul 2014 at 14:26

bah if I buy a third they'll just throttle anyway

Gibbo · 15 Jul 2014 at 14:33

NVIDIA will aim to run their channel dry of old stock before releasing new tech. As a business they don't want to have to price protect thousands of cards in the channel to a lower price, as such run the channel dry.

So when new card comes out stocks are very low or zero, hence no price drop required.

From dealing with manufacturers like MSI, Asus etc. none of them seem to have large stocks, so I doubt a price drop will come and we shall just transition to new product when it comes at whatever price it comes at.