Bad time to buy a graphics card?

bledd · 13 May 2016 at 15:29

My trusty old 660Ti is playing up, a few months out of warranty

Is now a bad time to buy a GTX970? Bearing in mind, my upper limit is around £250.

Thinking about getting this..

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...ess-graphics-card-zt-90101-10p-gx-071-zt.html

Phixsator · 13 May 2016 at 15:33

yes its a bad time.. very bad time.. and even if it were not there are better options than the 970. but it is.. a very bad time.

D.P. · 13 May 2016 at 15:34

I owuld wait a week or 2, Nvidia have just launched their new cards which will see a lot of people upgrading, if you don't mind second hand you might be able to grab 970/980 or even a 980Ti in your price range, possible also the 1070. Plus AMD should have something not long after which should be faster and cheaper than the 970.

w00dy85 · 13 May 2016 at 15:34

I would wait for the new cards from Nvidia and AMD, I'm sure their will be some deals coming soon.

beany_bot · 13 May 2016 at 15:39

Defo wait till at least the 1080 is released. That will see a surge of 970's / 980's second hand on fleabay. driving prices of them down.

bledd · 13 May 2016 at 15:41

Thanks, I'll suffer on my backup 560Ti for now then. Annoyingly, when I bought the 660Ti, I assumed that EVGA still did 10 year warranties :/

Orcvader · 13 May 2016 at 16:06

If you're that desperate, you could perhaps try to find the 970 second hand.

On the other hand, nice name

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bowza · 13 May 2016 at 18:48

got to wait no point dropping any money on a card until the 1080 release, the markets will all change.

Jono8 · 13 May 2016 at 18:50

The worst time to buy yes. Pascal releases on the 27th and Polaris is supposed to be announced at that time as well .

Don't buy anything now at today's prices or you will regret it.

maonayze · 13 May 2016 at 19:41

Orcvader said:
If you're that desperate, you could perhaps try to find the 970 second hand.

On the other hand, nice name .

but isn't this guy now called HMS Sir David Attenborough now?

Zefan · 13 May 2016 at 19:42

Terrible time. I'm finding it hard knowing that I need to buy a gaming laptop in the next month, I just know some brilliant new mobile GPUs will be appearing and driving prices of the old ones down soon, but I need to get it before I go away! Don't buy now unless you have to.

Caracus2k · 13 May 2016 at 19:45

D.P. said:
possible also the 1070.

No chance the 1070 will cost sub £250 or even close on launch. It's going to launch at $379. Convert that to pounds = £263 + 20% vat = £315 before you add any launch price gauging....

If the op I looking to buy new they will have to wait for the cheaper 1060 and 1050 to materialise for that money any time soon....

Second hand 970 or 980 probably best options for that money

bledd · 13 May 2016 at 19:59

On the plus side, in two weeks time I can live on porridge and shell out for a 1080

Panos · 13 May 2016 at 20:14

BoatyMcBoatface said:
My trusty old 660Ti is playing up, a few months out of warranty

Is now a bad time to buy a GTX970? Bearing in mind, my upper limit is around £250.

Thinking about getting this..

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...ess-graphics-card-zt-90101-10p-gx-071-zt.html

Since you are on budget, wait for July also to see the AMD offerings.
Both the 1070 & 1080 do not support Async compute, so until reviews are out, you might better hold to find what is the best offer to spend your money on.

Currently at £250 the R9 390 is by far the best product and it will serve you for quite some time in the future both in DX11, DX12 and Vulcan.
Ofc you can always grab a R9 290X for less used (non reference cooler though) which is even more powerful card.

Gregster · 13 May 2016 at 20:36

Wait for the 1080/70 bud. Not long to wait

DarrenM343 · 13 May 2016 at 21:04

Interesting, some are still buying TX's around the £900 mark. Not sure who would still be buying at that level. The memory is of course useful but going to lose nearly 50% as soon as buy one?

Gibbo · 13 May 2016 at 21:14

DarrenM343 said:
Interesting, some are still buying TX's around the £900 mark. Not sure who would still be buying at that level. The memory is of course useful but going to lose nearly 50% as soon as buy one?

It is crazy we've sold more Titan X this week than we did for the whole of last month. But it probably helps that OcUK is one of the only remaining stockist of Titan X as I literally went buying them all up a few weeks back.

Kaapstad · 13 May 2016 at 21:19

Gibbo said:
It is crazy we've sold more Titan X this week than we did for the whole of last month. But it probably helps that OcUK is one of the only remaining stockist of Titan X as I literally went buying them all up a few weeks back.

Can not beat them in SLI @2160p

12gb of VRAM takes some beating in a mGPU setup.

dragos1977 · 13 May 2016 at 21:21

Just wait till new cards are on and buy a second hand 980 ti that will be under 300 on the bid site.

DarrenM343 · 13 May 2016 at 21:24

Gibbo said:
It is crazy we've sold more Titan X this week than we did for the whole of last month. But it probably helps that OcUK is one of the only remaining stockist of Titan X as I literally went buying them all up a few weeks back.

You know the market very well.
I was thinking you'd end up dropping them to £600 or so after discussing with the suppliers to shift them - wrong