Another Round of Price Increases ?

Jamesyboyjim · 5 Oct 2016 at 11:25

Gibbo said:
P.S. Our service is better, our forums are better and we share such data with our members, do our competitors do this. No so surely you'd always shop with OcUK when prices are the same elsewhere?

Great point.

I trust ocuk to put things right if things go wrong, its worth the extra few quid for that peace of mind, although the beauty is that ocuk are usually cheapest anyway so sometimes you can have your cake and eat it

Gibbo · 5 Oct 2016 at 11:57

phil-k said:
I saw "The Palit is crap" and was shocked, until I saw further down your comments about the Jetstream, I bought one of those recently and can say it is a very good card so far, even though I have only had it a short time.
I cannot hear the fans at all, it has colour lighting codes for its temperatures and I have only had it just off green for cool so far when turning BF4s resolution scale settings up to 200% to test it, so far very pleased

Crap is a little harsh I suppose, because if you have a working on its a fine card, does what its supposed to do. But the failure rate is shockingly high so that begs the question what cost cutting was done at the expense.

could have just being a bad batch but we've gone through a couple of batches of stock now.....

Yes the Jetstream and GameRock those cards we really rate due to the fantastic cooling and their return rates are around the 2% area.

MooMoo444 · 5 Oct 2016 at 12:02

The honesty is very nice. The Palit Dual is definitely one to avoid. Palit entirely to be honest as you would imagine all the cards are made by the same people, so who knows what other corners have been cut.

I have owned two Palit cards, a 580 and a 780. Both of which failed on the cusp of their warranty periods. I shaln't try a third.

melmac · 5 Oct 2016 at 12:23

Gibbo said:
Crap is a little harsh I suppose, because if you have a working on its a fine card, does what its supposed to do. But the failure rate is shockingly high so that begs the question what cost cutting was done at the expense.

could have just being a bad batch but we've gone through a couple of batches of stock now.....

Yes the Jetstream and GameRock those cards we really rate due to the fantastic cooling and their return rates are around the 2% area.

So my Palit dual card sometimes makes an awful racket on startup and other times only one fan is working. And occasionally webpages get all corrupt and I have to refresh the page.

Is this enough to warrant a return?

Gibbo · 5 Oct 2016 at 12:32

melmac said:
So my Palit dual card sometimes makes an awful racket on startup and other times only one fan is working. And occasionally webpages get all corrupt and I have to refresh the page.

Is this enough to warrant a return?

That sounds faulty to me mate, get it returned.

Rezident · 5 Oct 2016 at 13:38

dits said:
With the £ falling ever lower today, can we expect higher GPU prices by tomorrow? Get your order in right now peeps

Well the pound is expected to fall to parity with the Euro by early next year so expect changes.

Luckily I'm in the Euro and will be buying my new system in Sterling early next year, so, you know, every cloud...

Rezident · 5 Oct 2016 at 14:23

andybird123 said:
Supply and demand. If people stop buying GPU's the price will come down one way or another.

But that's the problem, we can't stop buying gpu's and they know it!

shaf · 5 Oct 2016 at 14:47

I bought a 1070 when I said I wouldn't due to the price.

I hadn't upgraded my card in years and if this even lasts half that long then it's worth it.

IvanDobskey · 5 Oct 2016 at 14:49

shaf said:
I bought a 1070 when I said I wouldn't due to the price.

I hadn't upgraded my card in years and if this even lasts half that long then it's worth it.

Same here.

Plan was to pick up a used 980ti but with the comedy prices on the mm, thought I may as well get a 1070 for a few quid more

melmac · 5 Oct 2016 at 17:36

Gibbo said:
That sounds faulty to me mate, get it returned.

Thanks, I should, but I am worried that when it's returned to Ocuk and you test it, it won't show any of the problems.

mikeo · 5 Oct 2016 at 17:50

melmac said:
Thanks, I should, but I am worried that when it's returned to Ocuk and you test it, it won't show any of the problems.

Get a mate to try it in their system. You'll know one way, or another, then

melmac · 5 Oct 2016 at 20:18

mikeo said:
Get a mate to try it in their system. You'll know one way, or another, then

It's definitely the card. There is no doubt there. The issues are so occasional though, that when Ocuk staff try the card it will work perfectly. Not sure how much time they put into testing returns.

mikeo · 5 Oct 2016 at 21:12

melmac said:
It's definitely the card. There is no doubt there. The issues are so occasional though, that when Ocuk staff try the card it will work perfectly. Not sure how much time they put into testing returns.

I think they are pretty thorough. Seem to remember being told that they have a test suite that they leave running for a number of hours. Only ever had to return one card and that was a few years back now. Got tested and replaced within a working week.

Suppose you could just wait and see if it gets worse!

Good luck.

melmac · 5 Oct 2016 at 22:13

mikeo said:
I think they are pretty thorough. Seem to remember being told that they have a test suite that they leave running for a number of hours. Only ever had to return one card and that was a few years back now. Got tested and replaced within a working week.

Suppose you could just wait and see if it gets worse!

Good luck.

Cheers Man. part of me hopes it does get worse!! Even though it's playing games fine.

AWPC · 6 Oct 2016 at 01:05

Buy now or ASAP its obvious the prices are going to rise steeply. I bought a GTX 1070 3 weeks ago...now its gone up £70 due to it being bought after the £ dropped again so that devaluation is going to continue to happen.

£419.99 I was happy to pay for my MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X.
£488.99 is the current price :eek:

I think most of us would agree paying that for a GTX 1070 is insane when you can get a basic GTX 1080 for not much more but OCUK are still selling out on these cards they have 4 left in stock & a few days ago had many more.

So if you can buy now its unlikely to drop much anytime soon unless VAT gets put back down to 15% when we start the Brexit process as I think VAT has to be a minimum of 15% for EU members so hopefully we will go back to 15% after Brexit process starts

Ree · 6 Oct 2016 at 02:21

wow that msi version is £160 more than i paid for my b grade 1070 :eek:

~>Dg<~ · 6 Oct 2016 at 08:39

AWPC said:
Buy now or ASAP its obvious the prices are going to rise steeply. I bought a GTX 1070 3 weeks ago...now its gone up £70 due to it being bought after the £ dropped again so that devaluation is going to continue to happen.

£419.99 I was happy to pay for my MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X.
£488.99 is the current price

I think most of us would agree paying that for a GTX 1070 is insane when you can get a basic GTX 1080 for not much more but OCUK are still selling out on these cards they have 4 left in stock & a few days ago had many more.

So if you can buy now its unlikely to drop much anytime soon unless VAT gets put back down to 15% when we start the Brexit process as I think VAT has to be a minimum of 15% for EU members so hopefully we will go back to 15% after Brexit process starts

no dont buy now.you being scare mongered. gtx 1070 on a whole has gone down.

cheapest at most places is £350. basically what retailers have done mainly is lower prices on all the worse 1070s and highered the bigger selling better 1070s.

by jan you will have the cheaper ones touching £300.

Greebo · 6 Oct 2016 at 09:10

~>Dg<~ said:
no dont buy now.you being scare mongered. gtx 1070 on a whole has gone down.

cheapest at most places is £350. basically what retailers have done mainly is lower prices on all the worse 1070s and highered the bigger selling better 1070s.

by jan you will have the cheaper ones touching £300.

No chance unless Nvidia drops the RRP which it wont do.

With exchange rates been worse than when the cards were launched and only getting worse then they will only go up from now onwards.

At first cards were priced at a decent exxhange rate and hardly any gouging on pre orders.

Then with the exchange rate worsening slightly but mainly due to demand, the price shot upwards.

Recently the price has dropped as supply and demand has sorted itself out.

Unfortunately the pound has now taken a dive to a 31 year low.

So today a basic cheapest possible 1070 is £298.08 plus vat so £357.70 plus say a tenner for shipping costs so any place selling them at £350 is old paid for stock and wont last long.

Founders is £423.76 plus shipping so say £435 which is pretty much where the high end AIB cards should be as well, either slightly under or slightly more.

It is forecast the exchange rate will drop to 1.1 or even parity in 2017.

1.1 would make the cheapest 1070 £407 and a founders £478 and parity would mean £440 for the basic and £522 for the founders which would make a founder 1070 as expensive as the cheapest 1080 was on launch.

Point is, it wont be until the 1170 is launched that you will see 1070s for £300. I suspect the same applies to even £350.

Gibbo · 6 Oct 2016 at 09:22

Were still running a crazy cheap deal on an FE card!

Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 "Founders Edition" 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10700A-10P) @ £368.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...s-graphics-card-zt-p10700a-10p-gx-100-zt.html

ZT-P10700A-10P, Core Clock: 1506MHz, Boost Clock: 1683MHz, Memory: 8192MB 8000MHz GDDR5, Stream Processors: 1920, SLI Ready, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, 5 Years Warranty.

Only £368.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

How can OcUK pretty much undercut any competitor by £50?

Our stock is owned at 1.33 but more importantly we have a few thousand dollars support from Zotac to promote and increase sales.

But as Greebo says, if the pound weakens, the price goes up if the USD cost remains the same. Though board partners can help reduce USD cost they can normally only move a few dollars or so. Any major price move can only come via NVIDIA actually moving the price of the GPU, this is unlikely as Pascal is actually still completely sold out for NVIDIA and in shortage across the entire 1080, 1070 and 1060 range.

~>Dg<~ · 6 Oct 2016 at 09:43

Greebo said:
No chance unless Nvidia drops the RRP which it wont do.

With exchange rates been worse than when the cards were launched and only getting worse then they will only go up from now onwards.

At first cards were priced at a decent exxhange rate and hardly any gouging on pre orders.

Then with the exchange rate worsening slightly but mainly due to demand, the price shot upwards.

Recently the price has dropped as supply and demand has sorted itself out.

Unfortunately the pound has now taken a dive to a 31 year low.

So today a basic cheapest possible 1070 is £298.08 plus vat so £357.70 plus say a tenner for shipping costs so any place selling them at £350 is old paid for stock and wont last long.

Founders is £423.76 plus shipping so say £435 which is pretty much where the high end AIB cards should be as well, either slightly under or slightly more.

It is forecast the exchange rate will drop to 1.1 or even parity in 2017.

1.1 would make the cheapest 1070 £407 and a founders £478 and parity would mean £440 for the basic and £522 for the founders which would make a founder 1070 as expensive as the cheapest 1080 was on launch.

Point is, it wont be until the 1170 is launched that you will see 1070s for £300. I suspect the same applies to even £350.

will bookmark it and see how we are in january. :cool: