Usually we end up being completely insulted. A cheap blower fan and a cheap plastic shroud. The 680 and 670 leave a lot to be desired if I'm honest, the plastic 'extensions' on my 670s look really tacky like they're made out of uber cheap plastic.. Doesn't even look like ABS plastic lol.
It isn't just the cooler on Titan. Nvidia have, and always have, use VERY expensive memory. Look at the price difference between the 2gb and 4gb 680 and 670 !
AMD use cheaper memory.. It was only recently Nvidia ditched Rambus whose memory was astronomically priced. The reason? Nvidia make Tesla and Quadro so they use the same stable memory on both.
6gb is pretty much absolutely as daft as a brush tbh. Why couldn't they cut it to 3gb and cheapen the cooler? because they know people will pay it.
Titan will only hurt us in the long run. Nvidia go "Oh look, we can charge £1000 for single GPU card".
I was talking to a mate of mine today. He runs a chip shop.. Any way, sorry if this sounds OT I promise it isn't...
Any way a few years back a sack of potatoes trade price was £3. It shot up to £7 because of fuel shortages. The price of a bag of chips went from 50p to £1.20.
Any way a few months later the price of potatoes went back down to £3 yet no one dropped the price of the chips back to 50p.
Why? because like fools we just rolled over and accepted it.
That's what Nvidia have been doing for ages, and the world is full of silly sods who happily oblige due to their egos. And it makes it an elitist thing with stupid price tags which has taken out the fun.
I remember back in the Athy XP days every one could afford a decent PC, overclock it and throw in a Radeon 9800 Pro.
Now? lol you need to rent your house out.
Well fortunately, nVidia aren't the only GPU manufacturers.
Plus, it's a bit more complex than that, but I can see where you're coming from.
Everyone can still afford a decent PC, but what's happened is that the low end is actually still very high in performance terms relative to the past.
Because whilst hardware has been moving ahead, software hasn't, so for the vast majority of people, bargain basement hardware has been getting better and better relative to previous years.
Speaking of a 9800 pro as well, I got one "back in the day" but they weren't that cheap.
Actually, I think I paid the same as I did for my 9800 pro as I did for one of my 7950s, which would technically mean that I paid more for a 9800 pro then, than I did for one of my 7950s now due to the pound being stronger then, and the inflation over the years.
Realistically speaking, high end tech prices have been coming down quite a bit, nVidia's prices used to be ridiculously high, where £500+ was the norm for their single GPU release, those days are over I think.
It's hard to judge Titan because of the strange position it's in, very limited run and all that, but it won't be £1000. If the USD price is $800, we should see it for £650 or less here, as we don't get screwed over on price the way people often suggest.
It's always surprising how often you see people state that we live in "rip off Britain" and that we always get screwed on our hardware prices, but when asked for proof, they very rarely respond, and if they do respond they always ignore the VAT and US salestax thing.
The vast majority of the time, in the UK, we pay the USD price with VAT on top, give or take a few percent. Sometimes we even pay a bit less pre-tax.
and no official reviews have been put up, unless the one earlier today was real which was pulled.
