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Drop your prices Nvidia. Please?

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Not sure what's going on with Nvidia at the moment. Are they completely oblivious to the fact that people are buying AMD cards because they offer a better Price:Performance?

Any ideas when we will see the return of the great value cards from Nvidia? When will they drop prices?
 
Rumours of a price drop before Xmas and again one in Jan but honestly I don't hold much hope of that happening. Either way any drop is gona be peanuts probably!
 
AMD announced a price drop recently and UK retail prices WENT UP!

Even if there is a price drop don't expect that saving to actually reach the consumer.

At the moment, all parties have realised that cards will sell at higher prices, so where is the incentive to drop them? Until people stop buying at these inflated prices we will continue to suffer them.
 
gregster said:
Maybe Nvidia are still selling well, so feel no need to drop prices?
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Yup I get the feeling that those of us who are voting with our wallets are increasingly outnumbered by those who will hand over ever increasing amounts of their cash.


It's making console gaming look more attractive.
 
mranderson said:
Funny how 2 year old cards are still selling for almost the same.
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This.

Complete joke the prices of the 5xx and 6xxx cards. Who on earth would buy them when you can get the newer cards (6xx and 7xxx) for more or less the same price (in quite a few cases you can get the newer and better card for a good bit cheaper than the old/worse card) and offer better performance etc.

Badly need a new GPU, but I ain't buying overpriced items, even when cards are on sale, they still aren't tempting at all.
 
All depends on what you play..eg a 670 generally beats a 7970 on bf3, other games the 7970 will win conciderably.

Both sides have pros and cons, I really like evga as their support is brilliant and they feel very well built. Lots of people are still buying 670/680s (myself included)

NVIDIA's cards are usually slightly more expensive.
 
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Nexus18 said:
This.

Complete joke the prices of the 5xx and 6xxx cards. Who on earth would buy them when you can get the newer cards (6xx and 7xxx) for more or less the same price (in quite a few cases you can get the newer and better card for a good bit cheaper than the old/worse card) and offer better performance etc.

Badly need a new GPU, but I ain't buying overpriced items, even when cards are on sale, they still aren't tempting at all.
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It is odd. I can understand some models. for eg performance wise the 6800 series slot in between the 7700 and 7800 cards comfortably.

I get that no retailer wants to undercut an equally performing newer product, stealing its sales and profit while make a loss on the older items buying price but after a while you just gotta let it go.
 
Defy Belief said:
All depends on what you play..eg a 670 generally beats a 7970 on bf3, other games the 7970 will win conciderably.

Both sides have pros and cons, I really like evga as their support is brilliant and they feel very well built. Lots of people are still buying 670/680s (myself included)
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Once upon a time yes, but with later drivers and GHZ editions the GTX 670 / 680's just don't have anything anymore (
Other than Physx ) But even AMD are doing the same thing with their own game titles now.


http://www.overclockers.com/asus-hd7970-directu-ii-top-graphics-card-review

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Even an overclocked GTX 670 vs overclocked 7950 is a match.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/08/23/galaxy_gtx_660_ti_gc_oc_vs_670_hd_7950/3

The idea that Nvidia out perform AMD is very much the mindset, so i have no doubt Nvidia are selling very well despite the over inflated prices.
 
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I do wish users would run tests like other users have so we can take the "paid off reviewers" with a pinch of salt :( I have seen inflated fps results for the 680 also before I get told I am wrong. Just read that review and they are kissing Asus's behind before they have even put it in a machine...Embarassing to say the least :(
 
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gregster said:
I do wish users would run tests like other users have so we can take the "paid off reviewers" with a pinch of salt :( I have seen inflated fps results for the 680 also before I get told I am wrong. Just read that review and they are kissing Asus's behind before they have even put it in a machine...Embarassing to say the least :(
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I know Hokie well enough to know he holds no biased toward anyone, least of all anything AMD, what he does do every time is completely ignore NDA from Anyone

They get a ton of products to review and i have seen them be very unkind to some of them, especially Bulldozer, and for good reason.
 
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humbug said:
I know Hokie well enough to know he holds no biased toward anyone, least of all anything AMD, what he does do every time is completely ignore NDA from Anyone

They get a ton of products to review and i have seen them be very unkind to some of them, especially Bulldozer, and for good reason.
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So he ignores NDA's and still gets supplied hardware?
 
Stanners said:
So he ignores NDA's and still gets supplied hardware?
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Seems so, i guess some hold so much trafic they can.

AMD sent them a Trinity A10-5800K, it's been sent around with an NDA (this is actually unusual for AMD) Hokie has already made a public statement to the fact that they will not be sticking to it.
 
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