This is the first time in 20 years we've had mid tier chips being released for £1000+ while at the low end GPUs haven't seen a meaningful performance bump for 5 years and this combined with the drivel of new titles we seem to be served up isn't exactly doing it any favours.
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Poll: BROWSE THE NVIDIA RTX 4000 SERIES AT OcUK !!
I just saw an AM5 board here in Denmark, the godlike from MSI i think?, that thing cost 12000DKK or around 1700 USD.. WHAT?!
The 7700x and 7600x are not that bad, not great either, however the boards and the ram.. yikes. who is the audience that will buy a 350 dollar 6 core CPU and then spend another 350 dollar on a board without ram?
Id imagine go with B650/B650e but they probably get price bump as wellI just saw an AM5 board here in Denmark, the godlike from MSI i think?, that thing cost 12000DKK or around 1700 USD.. WHAT?!
How does the prices work if you buy on release day and the product isn’t due in stock until the following month. If the pound gets hammered even more do you get locked into the price that you bought the card on the 12th October or does it go up even more until it’s shipped?
and all of the decent features cut to be as low tier as possibleId imagine go with B650/B650e but they probably get price bump as well
money is taken when you order and thats what you pay
Wasn't thinking the really low b650 boards was more on about the higher end b650e they still have PCIe 5.0 and 1 m.2 gen 5
And AMD don't restrict any of the tweaking/oc etc in the bios like Intel do for the lower boards
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Cheers thanks. Been weighing up the different AIB options and it’s not a great decision to make as if you want the higher performance with the more expensive AIBs they are going to be more power hungry and expensive to run. Tempted to just go for the basic AIB option.
Caporegime
I’m not saying it’s dead - yet - but, as I say, when a hobbyist pastime gets well beyond the reach of its participants especially when a simple solution in the form of a console costs a quarter of the price of a high end GPU (never mind the rest of the components required for a good system build) then if the industry isn’t careful it’ll just kill its golden goose.
The OCUK RoH thread hardcore. They will be keen to stake their place in history once again - whatever the cost.
When you place the order, you pay in full, so if the price increases, your order will be shipped at the price you paid.
Underwhelming?
Though by no means the numbers are not that of Ryzen 5000 but no one was ever predicting they would be due to the change of the market, the actual sales are incredible especially as the majority of the sales are all on the flagship 7950X, we've already sold over 200 of them.
Underwhelming?
Though by no means the numbers are not that of Ryzen 5000 but no one was ever predicting they would be due to the change of the market, the actual sales are incredible especially as the majority of the sales are all on the flagship 7950X, we've already sold over 200 of them.
Proving the Pro market can afford to buy these for work purposes (because time is money), but the gaming market is dead this generation. Totally different market for the 7950x and sadly the 4090 is not looking good for the pro market this time either as the problems are no extra VRAM from 3090s before and no NVLINK for people like myself that need that for work.
The 7950x is an amazing cpu for the price for the pro market and same was said for the 5950x and why we all jumped on them and built high end rigs with dual 3090s, this time I feel the only people updating will be the pro market that requires the CPU power more than the GPU power.
I would jump on the 7950x too if motherboards had 4 slot spacing so I could use my 3090s in NVLINK but the boards that allow that this time have doubled in cost and this is coming from a person that paid a lot for the MSI x570 Godlike as they were near impossible to find anywhere in the UK and EU, to the point I had to order one from USA and pay silly prices for it and hit by customs too.. So not in the mood for that game again and when EVGA released x570 with 4 slot spacing they again were near impossible to find and same for the ASUS board that was again silly money.
What most people didn't realise the MSI Godlike x570 ended up in workstations and we have a lot of them at work and all with dual 3090s in, the problem for us to update this generation would mean we need these 4 slot spaced boards and again we are being hit with the 3 slot spaced boards for z690,z790 and x670E.. Till the usual suspects release 4 slot spaced boards at a hopefully sensible price.
Not sure how many R7 or R5 cpus you are selling but I bet a lot less than many thought would sell as the motherboard and DDR5 pricing is putting a lot off updating their computers that are mostly used for gaming and light other tasks.
We will have to see how it all goes down but sadly with everything happening in our country and the world right now these type of luxury products are going to be the last thing on most peoples minds even the people with money.
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So what you're saying is if we can get enough people buying a 4090 to the point stock runs out like last time and the £ continues to freefall we could short OCUK like it was a stock
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The 200+ sold since launch are all to consumers, no business or corporate sales yet.
Customer pays the price advertised when they check out, if the price to us increases by £100, you the customer pays no extra, you get it at the price you paid.
Have you considered the FE card ? all being well it should retain its price of £1680 and they are actually very good cards and against an AIB in games you will struggle to notice the difference imo ... Also if you want to be brave and mod it then they can actually outperform an AIB card in certain benchmarks if they are like the 3090 was ... the guy in 1st place on the port royal thread was using a modded FE card , my Strix is sitting in 4th place and that was with a 520w bios and very cold temps
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...eature-test-port-royal-bench-thread.18838895/A lot of people work from home now, so they pay for them and the business covers the costs for the purchase too as you know, also many for sure will be enthusiasts wanting the latest and greatest too, but I bet you many were purchased by pro users for their work.
I wish you guys all the luck really selling these new gen parts and really feel sorry for the retailers this time and hope many don't go under because of this world mess and the pricing of the new tech at the worst possible time in history that I can remember as a computer user.
Last thing I want to see is my favourite retailers with products I use everyday and care about passionately go out of business and makes it super hard to buy what you want like back in the 80's-90's, I spent half my life ordering things that we didn't have in UK from USA or even Australia back then, I really don't want to see that again or Amazon taking over these markets as they are not the place I like ordering such high end gear from or specialised gear that if they have it is stupidly priced and comes again from USA Amazon.
I'm sure things will settle down and once the B550 type boards come out, it will make more sense for gamers to update at a reasonable price and once DDR5 halves in price too. I live in reality and know and seen this many times with new gen SDR or DDR memory and other main pc components and they always come down in time to become mainstream purchases.
I'm actually enjoying seeing all this new tech from AMD,INTEL and NVIDIA and in time will jump back in to purchase from them again but I think I'm sitting out of this gen and so far only thing that's made me have a little itch to buy is the 7950x cpus but the motherboards are really putting me off with the pricing and they look like massive downgrades from previous gen (yes I know new PCIE 5) but other things have been downgraded, example the MSI Godlike this gen doesn't even have an oled screen or the other goodies that make it worth spending that sort of money on that type of board. We seem to get less for more on these motherboards now. I'm sure you have seen what I mean too.
Thanks for keeping us all updated with everything and the pricing situations we may face if purchasing and yes I may grab the 7950x cpu while the price now is sensible because I really have a bad feeling about future pricing for it, also when I purchased my 5950x I paid £820 for it because as you know back then they were impossible to find in stock too. So use to this silly pricing and now we have the £ to $ issues to add to it
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