I paid £650 for my EVGA 1080ti from a competitor 6 months or so ago, even though that is slightly more expensive than usual, i'm glad i got it back then as i wouldn't pay any more than that for a graphics card. (or any "toy" come to matter!)
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1080Ti price drop
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You really are a fool to buy the GTX1080ti at the prices they are at. Its ironic on Cyber Monday how the prices are now higher than ever before. They were a rip off at £600 given that they are old tech let alone the silly prices they are now. In a world of mental health issues effecting 1 in 4 people id be concerned the people paying these prices are actually of sound mind and OCUK should be concerned they are not miss selling.
If anyone is interested i have a Zotac GTX980ti which you can't buy anymore from anywhere. Ill give you it if you pay £1,200. Seems reasonable considering GTX1080ti now sells for more than RTX2080 by several hundred £££.
You can get an Xbox One S for sub £200 with several games right now. I wanted to upgrade my computer right up to date but the prices are so obnoxious this last couple of years that I simply cannot justify or reward this thieving behaviour. I just see more people giving up with pc as they are forced out to consoles.. Ill hold onto to my current system (which in all honesty plays everything fine) until newer tech comes out with hopefully more justifiable prices. Honestly the greed & gouging going on in the PC market as of late is so bad
I dunno Ryzen 2700x is a brilliant 8/16 thread chip at a fantastic price.
Ram is cheaper
Cheap B450 mobo and your set.
Just the card ...say a Vega 56 at 299 and your set.
This is a cheap build !
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The worst part is Nvidia won't budge an inch on price due to brand protection.... Its all just bloody marketing now and lets be like Apple
I'm not actually opposed to spending £1k on a gpu IF it actually delivers x6 the performance of the last gen but not 35% you've got to be kidding
I'm not actually opposed to spending £1k on a gpu IF it actually delivers x6 the performance of the last gen but not 35% you've got to be kidding
you know the funny thing is i was getting a nice build together last year black fri,got me a 1950x a nice case a decent power supply and some cheap NVMe sammy memory,then i decided to just hold back a little on my card thinking a deal would pop up...mining went through the roof and before i knew it 1080ti's were over the £1000 mark...a year down the line nothing has really changed and i thought with the new 20 series being released i would pick one up cheap a year later...little did i know things wouldn't change at all and i would have to chance my luck on the second hand market,just watched tiny tom logans quick look at the new EVGA RTX 2080Ti TFW3 ultra...it's only £1200+ he said nothing to lose a kidney over in comparisson to the asus at £1500+...no wouldn't need to sell a kidney for that EVGA tom...LOL...those prices were for the titan cards back in the day the 'crem del la crem' of graphics for gamers the sort of set ups you only see on youtube because 99.99999999% of gamers just could not afford that type of set up...it is honestly mental the prices these cards are going for
Have you looked at the 2nd hand market? I grabbed a EVGA 1080ti SC2 gaming card (11gb) for $700 second hand. Granted it had thermal issues but a reapply of thermal paste sorted that right out.
Whilst I agree that the pricing is absurd, you need to remember that the 2080ti's are indeed, as you say, the 'crem del la crem' of graphics cards. Nothing (average consumer wise anyway) can touch them. It's why Nvidia hiked the prices, knowing that people will pay for the best card on the market. I almost did, but have 0 reason to replace my 1080 ti for 1440p 144hz gaming at this moment in time. Maybe in 2 years? But not right now.
Whilst I agree that the pricing is absurd, you need to remember that the 2080ti's are indeed, as you say, the 'crem del la crem' of graphics cards. Nothing (average consumer wise anyway) can touch them. It's why Nvidia hiked the prices, knowing that people will pay for the best card on the market. I almost did, but have 0 reason to replace my 1080 ti for 1440p 144hz gaming at this moment in time. Maybe in 2 years? But not right now.
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Funny comment that. Yes due to RTX argueably been a fail, products breaking, raytracing not been good enough etc the GTX1080ti value goes up, that makes sense. And clearly as the RTX is a fail the price drops.....hang on....it hasent budged
Like Apple, nvidia could flog **** with their brand on it and people will now pay and defend them. Their only hurting themselves.But seriously, even if the RMA is slightly higher and raytracing isnt quite up to scratch it seems odd to spend £200 more on a GTX1080ti right now than a RTX2080.
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I did something similar, although in hindsight I wish I had bought a Gigabyte Aorus model rather than the Gaming OC - mainly due to the lack of a waterblock.
ITT: When a PC GPU for £600 becomes "cheap", and people only baulk at the idea of paying £900 
Keep going guys. I'm sure nV can relieve you of £1500 next time around. The 3080 will be worth it tho, right?
I'll be flying the flag for console peasants by that time. I can't see any future for the PC apart from more and more becoming a rich man'stoy benchmarking contest.
Keep going guys. I'm sure nV can relieve you of £1500 next time around. The 3080 will be worth it tho, right?
I'll be flying the flag for console peasants by that time. I can't see any future for the PC apart from more and more becoming a rich man's
Let's see what happens with the World economy over the next couple of years. I can see the bottom dropping out of these crazy high priced electronics when the credit bubble bursts. According to a recent article the average Briton saved £100 last year. Says it all really!
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Just keep staying behind the frontline with mid range cards at 1440p and high details rather than ultra, and you're protected from all this perfectly normal commercial behaviour.
I picked one up, this was probably the lowest we will see this card selling new until a new generation comes along.
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Hardly cheaper than realise for a 2 year old card & one of the worst for overclocking (apparently). The mining world collasping & somehow the prices go up? The reason prices were artificially high before was due to mining craze & now that bubble seems bursting & 2nd hand market flooded surely prices go down.
Having said that the sad thing is the OCUK £580 price & the competition at £550 have been the lowest they have ever been so for many we've been stuck between a rock & a hard place when comes to upgrading. I got a gtx980ti for £350 from OCUK in May 2016, great price/performance (couldn't justify getting gtx1080 at the price compared to gtx980ti). 5 months later gtx1080ti comes at about 50% better performance for £650, hummed & harred but again I couldn't justify the price for gains at time so thought I'd wait til new cards come out.
Logically i expected an upgrade path of either gtx1080ti for around £400 (50% improvement) or rtx2080ti for £700 (100% improvement). Instead 2 years later it's either same priced gtx1080ti (well now even more expensive than 2 years ago) or the ludicrous over £1000 option. Out of principle I refuse either price as both are rip off. I think anyone who bought these cards would be doing so at least a little begrudgingly at the price.
Sad thing is Nvidia's attitude could be lets charge double the price & sell to 60% of our target audience or sell 100% at normal price. For the small extra profit they make selling at double price they are willing to **** off 40% of their loyal customers (figures are just used as an example, just proving a point).
Again as someone mentioned about the UK economy, these days I work for a bank with secured loans and people who are in debt are more concerned about paying for the latest & greatest tech than paying for a roof over their heads.
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I’m not saying it’s great, I’m saying that there was stock and at a sold called discount price.
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And end up with a box of Wii manuals, nah.
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