580 GTX Price is up....

vorticalspace · 7 Nov 2010 at 15:47

Sh4rkie said:
That £399 580 gtx is now showing as instock and shipping!

Very interesting

Doesn't even state what brand

Do we deduce an Nvidia branded product!!

^Andy^ · 7 Nov 2010 at 15:49

TerryS said:
Very tempted to pre-order from the other site however if you put one in your basket it says 'usually ships in 10 days' in red writing. I think I'll wait for OC.

Why not wait for some reviews and possibly even wait till the Ati 69xx cards appear - competition, prices and all that :cool:

TerryS · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:09

I want a card now to replace my 5870 which has never been reliable i.e. grey vertical line crashes which I've reduced by using MSI Afterburner to increase the Vcore to 1.25 and using a Zalman VF3000 cooler to keep the temps down, although they were never that high anyway. I still get the occasional crash and I haven't had anything useful from ATI support except "wait for the next driver update". I'll give ATI a miss and I allowed for around £400 to upgrade anyway.

^Andy^ · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:11

TerryS said:
I want a card now to replace my 5870 which has never been reliable i.e. grey vertical line crashes which I've reduced by using MSI Afterburner to increase the Vcore to 1.25 and using a Zalman VF3000 cooler to keep the temps down, although they were never that high anyway. I still get the occasional crash and I haven't had anything useful from ATI support except "wait for the next driver update". I'll give ATI a miss and I allowed for around £400 to upgrade anyway.

Fair play but it sounds to me like you had a duff card to be honest :mad:

TerryS · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:15

Yes, it is a duffer but ATI reckon it's a driver issue despite putting it in another machine with the same result. My biggest mistake was not buying from OC or at least a mainland retailer. It'll do for a second PC.

reygjabla · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:29

TerryS said:
Very tempted to pre-order from the other site however if you put one in your basket it says 'usually ships in 10 days' in red writing. I think I'll wait for OC.

You can reserve and collect it from their London outlet albeit with a £40 non-refundable deposit.

Gerard · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:30

Be interesting to see ocuk's prices now that we have an official price from a retailer.

TerryS · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:43

If there's a limited supply I don't think OC will be too concerned with their prices as they'll sell them anyway. The same goes for other retailers too. :cool:

GJ02 · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:45

So people are going to have these tomorrow if they reserve and collect ?
Gibbo said there will be lots available about 100+ I worked out

TerryS · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:53

I think the release date is 9th, so Tuesday, but if they have them in the shop or even in the warehouse why does it say 'shipping usually in 10 days'. It doesn't say this if you order anything else that's shown 'in stock'. I could imagine paying £400 and still waiting in a couple of weeks.

Cosimo · 7 Nov 2010 at 16:58

GJ02 said:
So people are going to have these tomorrow if they reserve and collect ?

Not in stock, the man said Wednesday/Thursday. So porkies from them.

Skyrocket · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:02

Not a bad price considering!
They lowered their price.
Nice one Nvidia!
£ 399 is not great but it's not a disaster.
I will wait a little bit longer. £350 when 6970 comes out.....must hold out.....

Jokester · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:04

Certainly if they are going to be £400 then it looks like the 6970 is going to be cheaper than that.

reflux · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:12

This is getting interesting.

Cosimo · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:29

reflux said:
This is getting interesting.

The price looks good. Let’s hope the performance and the new vapour chamber cooling system are the same. Not long to go now.

Skyrocket · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:32

TerryS said:
I want a card now to replace my 5870 which has never been reliable i.e. grey vertical line crashes which I've reduced by using MSI Afterburner to increase the Vcore to 1.25 and using a Zalman VF3000 cooler to keep the temps down, although they were never that high anyway. I still get the occasional crash and I haven't had anything useful from ATI support except "wait for the next driver update". I'll give ATI a miss and I allowed for around £400 to upgrade anyway.

Thats unlucky bro.
i've had the 5870 since the SEP release. Sapphire edition for £305, for 1year 2 months, stock cooler.
Core 1000mhz DDR5 1300mhz
True had a bit of probs with powerplay + afterburner but the tribulations was fun

.
Quiet, fast, low power draw and never gave me any trouble. Now I got MLAA and still beats a 480GTX stock vs stock in Crysis. :-)

one of the best cards I had.
And trust me I had a few.
I just got an urge to upgrade and its going to be a tussle between 580GTX ( feel like trying a bit of green ) 6970 2gb (< might be a beast ) on which to get.

GJ02 · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:37

imagine, just imagine if amd had physx ! how good would that be
imagine the look on Jen-Hsun Huang's face

rolypolyman · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:38

You guys and your epeens. LOL

GJ02 · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:40

rolypolyman said:
You guys and your epeens. LOL

no no rolypolyman, we are all patient and wait for the good stuff to come and not bolt in the last 2 weeks

Duff-Man · 7 Nov 2010 at 19:40

GJ02 said:
imagine, just imagine if amd had physx ! how good would that be
imagine the look on Jen-Hsun Huang's face

Since it's proprietary nvidia tech, the look would probably be one of glee as he set his rabid lawyers upon the red team

This said, I wish both sides would commit to a common physics acceleration engine, based on an open format (eg OpenCL). Unfortunately there hasn't been too much movement in that direction so far...