8800GT Ramblings Thread

Tom|Nbk · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:30

LOL @ the likes of willhub etc

"Oh Im going to stay up all night and sit on the F5 key, can't wait £140 delivered etc etc

"

Fat lot of good that did be lucky to even source one today.

Ogs · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:30

fornowagain said:
Its against the rules, don't ask.

Ah woops, didnt realise (new here), il be good

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Frippy · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:31

PhillyDee said:
hahahaha.
Id still prefer to buy from OcUK. Ive never ever had a problem with them, unlike other retailers i use where i have had 1 or 2 gone astray.

Quoted for truth

smsmasters · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:31

booyaka said:
got mine ordered @ 137 - nice increase in price - they better honour the original order price!!!

I doubt you will get it at that price. The other site will probably cancel your order as it's most likely a pricing error.

They do not have to honour that price unless they have already taken your money, otherwise there is no contract of sale yet.

Ogs · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:32

Damn, OCUK take the money from your bank quick, thought most places only do it once its been sent ? :s

LoadsaMoney · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:32

OcUK's dropped of Nvidia's pecking order. :eek:

smsmasters · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:32

Ogs said:
Damn, OCUK take the money from your bank quick, thought most places only do it once its been sent ? :s

Yes that is correct.

thefish · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:33

supply and demand never changes.well done to all who got thiers cheap as it seems a lot of e-tailers have bumped the price up.

Gerard · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:33

LoadsaMoney said:
OcUK's dropped of the Nvidia pecking order.

Looks that way, unless there was some kind of delay with the couriers. Either that or competitors staff went and firebombed the couriers van bringing the cards to ocuk. :eek:

dr. sarf · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:34

deadkomodo said:
Has your price now changed?

Its gone up in the search results, but in my control panel its still the same. They either did it on purpose to ensure a huge order through their site, ir it was mispriced (all of them) which I doubt.
I remember ordering something from MAC once that was mispriced by £180 and they cancelled all the orders, as it was covered in there T&Cs.

pumaz · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:35

Did no one see this coming, Lets be real OcUK are in business to make money and with everyone clambering to get there hands on a GT of cause there gonna take advantage, just like some of you who sold some poor saps your old GTS's for close to price of a ne GT.

I'm olding out to mid December

easyrider · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:35

I'm so gonna beat my current 06 score with my new setup

Gerard · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:35

ots3go said:
It seems so.

At least we know why Gibbo hasn't been about today.

He was on the forum in this section about 10 mins ago, not posted yet though obviously.

J.D · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:36

Tom|Nbk said:
LOL @ the likes of willhub etc

"Oh Im going to stay up all night and sit on the F5 key, can't wait £140 delivered etc etc "

Fat lot of good that did be lucky to even source one today.

Last laugh will be his though. Nowhere near the money you paid second hand for your GTX but just about the same performance

. Seems as if Will's got a good deal on his hands.

Tom|Nbk · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:37

Can I just point this out from the FAQ

We, Overclockers UK (OcUK) are happy to provide the resources of these forums to responsible individuals without charge. They cost a substantial amount of money to maintain and use considerable amounts of bandwith which is paid for exclusively by us. As you know OcUK are in the computer hardware business and therefore the promotion of OcUK's competitors is forbidden. Examples of promotion are :-
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I have counted at least 10 people who are due suspensions due to breaking these rules.

JohnnyG · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:38

Stop going on about competitors and ther pricing it's annoyinh having to delete all the posts.

And I'm now going to start giving out free suspensions, rubs hands...

Tom|Nbk · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:39

J.D said:
Last laugh will be his though. Nowhere near the money you paid second hand for your GTX but just about the same performance . Seems as if Will's got a good deal on his hands.

Not really performance is 10fps less on average

Performance will plummit when you try to up the AA from anything higher than 4xAA

I like AA hence why Im happy with my GTX. Also I have the cash to afford it so no Im still laughing.

Squink · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:39

To go with the ramblings section of this thread, does anyone have any speculation about what this means for the new high end cards (i.e. GTX/Ultra replacements)? Since the GT makes the GTX effectively redundant unless you're running super high resolutions, who is going to pay nearly twice the price for a GTX? Presumably nVidia can't let the current situation go on for too long, with their previous high-end now completely devalued by a mid range solution? As it stands, you'd be daft not to get two 8800GTs if you had £300 or so put aside for a GPU upgrade.

ergonomics · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:40

have to take off the old GTS from auction then...

wanted to buy 2 but for the love of god couldnt find this other place you people got yours from

Rapacious · 29 Oct 2007 at 14:40

any guarantee on that 30/10 preorder date?

whilst am at it, how much performance will you gain from the superclocked version?