for this i am wondering, why nvidia will charge so much for their card when in 2 weeks time amd will release 6970 at a cheaper price
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580 GTX Price is up....
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for this i am wondering, why nvidia will charge so much for their card when in 2 weeks time amd will release 6970 at a cheaper price
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Clearly you haven't heard of the 8800 Ultra, the GTX 280, or even the GTX 480 all of which launched at around the £450 mark.
the US doller / UK pound is the same today as it was this time last year (~$1.60=£1.00), before then we wer getting even better rates tbh. in april 2008 it was $2 to the pound, so yeah were not having as good a time as we used to
Clearly you haven't heard of the 8800 Ultra, the GTX 280, or even the GTX 480 all of which launched at around the £450 mark.
Wasn't the Ultra over $800 list price and the gtx280 $650? It was only cause we were getting $2 to the pound that we got it for £450. It would be more like £600+ with today's exchange rates.
Yep, just checked my previous posts:
List price at launch in US dollars.
x1950xtx $449
8800 GTX $599
8800 Ultra $799
gtx 280 $649
9800 GX2 $599
HD 4870 $299
HD 5870 $379
HD 5970 $599
GTX 480 $499
The gtx480 has been Nvidia's cheapest top card for 10 years. Even the 8800gtx was $599. I can see the gtx580 being $599. According to reports they have only 10% in numbers compared to the 6970 so you can probably sell all of them at that price.
If not drop the price once the ATI cards launch.
£465 or £469 is my selection for next week. Still bad value for money when I got my two gtx470 for £350.
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Man I do hate the exchange rate, and price hiking due to the fun things going on in our country. However its setting up to be a very exciting month for GPU's
I paid £400 for a 4870X2 in sep 2008 and £500 for a 5970 in feb 2010.£480 pounds!
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Dont usually see much a dif with exchange rates, regardless we seem to pay hefty amounts. When it was $2=£1 why didnt we get these things cheaper than the states? We still ended up with expensive stuff. The exchange is not too bad right now, when it was $2=£1 we were doing VERY well, now things are just more normal. THe best thing to do is to simply not purchase at such silly amounts, but we only need a handful of people out of 60million to not care about the price so they will still sell.
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I remeber when the 7950Gx2 came out. That was £400!
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After my last expensive purachse of computer hardware back in April 2008, I realized that software and hardware accelerate so fast, your better of buying say mid range but upgrade every 2-3 years than shelling out for the really expensive stuff.
For instance. DX10 gpu's two years later... redundant with Dx11.
Spend £400 on a 480 or what ever in a years time redundant when dx12 debuts with Windows 8 no doubt.
You better of buying something great but also value for money like a 470 at current prices, then buying agian in approx 2 years at another upper midrange price point.
In saying that, I did a very silly thing. I knew the 6000 series from ATI was only months away. I knew I should wait, but instead I bought a 5870! Not entirely regretting it, becuase the 5870 is great, but I paid £300 for a 2gb 5870
, where as if I had waited forthe 6870 to launch either now I would be waiting to see what the 6970 would bring or I would have purchased a £200 470...Oh well, we live and we learn I guess.
In my opinion, in terms of gaming a cpu can last 3-4 years before needing an upgrade, where as a gpu lasts for about 2-3 years before you start to think hmm, it would be nice to play that game I really like at decent settings etc...
I will hopfully not make any future upgrades untill 2013 when Windows 8 is out, then Il do the whole mobo, ram, cpu, gpu upgrade.
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Originally Posted by Jen-Hsun Huang
Due to the NDA’s we have in place I can’t disclose the price of the 580GTX but I would advise you to be sitting down and in chair with arm rests so you don’t fall off when you faint.
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Due to the NDA’s we have in place I can’t disclose the price of the 580GTX but I would advise you to be sitting down and in chair with arm rests so you don’t fall off when you faint.
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i think it would be worth it if you had the money...i cried when i read it but thats cause im poor and worthless.
and all the pictures of a 580gtx iv seen so far...i have one question...WHERE ARE HEATPIPES LIKE IN THE 480GTX i loved them, made it look like it could do some damage to your powersupply.
and all the pictures of a 580gtx iv seen so far...i have one question...WHERE ARE HEATPIPES LIKE IN THE 480GTX
i loved them, made it look like it could do some damage to your powersupply.Wasn't the Ultra over $800 list price and the gtx280 $650? It was only cause we were getting $2 to the pound that we got it for £450. It would be more like £600+ with today's exchange rates.
x1950xtx $449
8800 GTX $599
8800 Ultra $799
gtx 280 $649
9800 GX2 $599
HD 4870 $299
HD 5870 $379
HD 5970 $599
GTX 480 $499
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holy ***** and my friend picked up a 8800 ultra for £50 yesterday!
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They are on the way, lots of them, but overall in the UK there will be very little stock!
Also pricing yet to be confirmed, should be well under £500 though
But it will obviously be more expensive than a 480 simply because its a damn site faster, its not just a speed bump.
Its not just a speed bump, I mean, really, its 15-20% faster, with 10% higher clocks. Standard "new generation" difference between top end cards is around 70-80%. This card the majority of the performance increase, is from the increased speed.
I consider a speed bump when a manufacturer just just increased clock speeds and fits a better cooler, I.E basically just overclocking the card and maybe making a few PCB changes to handle it.
I can't divulge as to what NVIDIA has done due to NDA, but they've done a lot more than just that.
