Poll: ASUS STRIX AMD VEGA 64, under £450, interested?

[Gibbo]

Has the deal gone live?

I am afraid not, I am not happy buying a thousand units of a product that potentially has a cooling issue.
Yes for the customers here who are happy to tweak voltage down, improve the thermal pads or even water cool it, that is of course fine, but the forums will not be able to sell me 1000 cards.

I've informed Asus of the issue we had witnessed, asked them if the stock they are selling me has maybe had a revision / update or if they could maybe even offer at a better price considering the boost clocks advertised are unrealistic in real world operation.

So we shall see, I've also requested deal from all other VEGA partners, so maybe another partner can give a similar deal. We shall see, but for me to buy 1000 units, I need to happy and with these findings I am more inclined to just pass the deal off or try to get better price or same price but for a lesser amount, say 100 units.

 

[Gibbo]

This may need to be cheaper. Same goes for the other nvidia offers here.

We have rejected the offer based on the thermal testing.

If Asus agree to a much lower quantity say 100 or less then we may take some to sell at just under £450 to please those who are not so bothered about thermals.

Otherwise we need a better price so we can hit closer to £400 or just under if Asus can’t shift them somewhere else in the world.

 

[Gibbo]

Trying to get authorisation from Asus to just take 100, they are still resisting and I refuse to take 500, so its a stalemate.

However we have a deal from Sapphire, arriving late this week or next week on Nitro VEGA 64 at £499 Inc. VAT which is a cracking price for that card. Only 120 units mind, so doubt they will last long.

 

[Gibbo]

Hi Gibbo, have you thought about approaching universities and asking them if they would be interested in buying these cards in bulk? I would have thought there are researchers who would these cards because of the computational throughout it offers.

We have a B2B and Corporate department who supply such segments, there is no demand for that amount of volume.

 

[Gibbo]

I'll undervolt and place a fan directly above it, hopefully it works

Vega generally responds very well to under-volting as they then maintain maximum boost clocks for longer or permanently.