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Gfx prices going up?

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We all know memory prices have gone sky high recently, but a little bit of googling suggests that gfx prices have been going up steadily too?

I'm seeing all sorts of expired offers for the GTX+260 @ £110. Now you can only get them for £140 ish.

Is this affecting the whole electronics market? I heard that prices tend to go up in a recession, but that really doesn't seem to make much sense to me.

Less available money + higher goods prices = more spending? Erm...
 
Depending on who you ask we are supposedly out of recession... tentatively.

The 260 (and 285, 295) is EOL aka not made anymore, hasn't been for many months now. There were a lot of threads from nvidia fans wondering why there was no stock...
 
They have the GTX360 and 380 (Fermi) coming in mid-late March. By all accounts there will be severe shortages and price-gouging, though. Just like the ATI launch that is still going on. :p

But yes, they have nothing atm. They were too costly to produce and nvidia decided to not take a loss.
 
I too am waiting on Fermi - if nothing else I hope it will bring ATi's prices down.
 
It's incredibly unlikely that there will be any Fermi-based products for under £100 in 2010 tho.

My budget would have stretched to £110 for a 260, but I missed the window of opportunity there, and I don't much want to pay the same price now for a 2nd hand model.

Hence the "balls" comment :p
 
Orangey said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-046-GI&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=939

About the same as a 260, but not quite. "Trades blows" as they say.
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Yup. But (alledgedly) it also draws ~25% more power, gets so hot you can't even touch it, and sounds like a vacuum cleaner when the fans spin up :p

All things considered I don't really want to buy ATI's current offerings... (I know, I know). Call me crazy, but I don't.

Although I've built a few systems recently with ATI cards, personally I'm sticking to the green team for my own system :p Not out of loyalty, I just don't fancy ATI much. Drivers, heat, noise, etc.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
I've had a x1950 and hd3850 agp cards, never again. Nvidia all the way.
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Its truly shocking that products that were designed from the ground up for PCI-E didn't work flawlessly on AGP. Some people would be thankful they had the option, most people would have switched to a PCI-E system when the entire industry had gone that way many years previously and most people wouldn't base their entire opinion of a companies products based on dodgey hybrid versions with weird hybrid interface chips that were never designed for that interface, nor the lack of bandwidth nor the fact the industry gave up on AGP years before.

But hey, thats just this crazy guys opinion. I won't go Nvidia ever again because they never made a 260gtx with a hybrid interface to fit into a ISA slot on my decade old mobo.......... how dare they not make a fantastic compatible product that works flawlessly. I'm also not happy with Intel, they didn't make a Q6600 compatible with my toaster :(
 
drunkenmaster said:
Its truly shocking that products that were designed from the ground up for PCI-E didn't work flawlessly on AGP. Some people would be thankful they had the option, most people would have switched to a PCI-E system when the entire industry had gone that way many years previously and most people wouldn't base their entire opinion of a companies products based on dodgey hybrid versions with weird hybrid interface chips that were never designed for that interface, nor the lack of bandwidth nor the fact the industry gave up on AGP years before.

But hey, thats just this crazy guys opinion. I won't go Nvidia ever again because they never made a 260gtx with a hybrid interface to fit into a ISA slot on my decade old mobo.......... how dare they not make a fantastic compatible product that works flawlessly. I'm also not happy with Intel, they didn't make a Q6600 compatible with my toaster :(
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ROFLMAO.:D
 
drunkenmaster said:
Its truly shocking that products that were designed from the ground up for PCI-E didn't work flawlessly on AGP. Some people would be thankful they had the option, most people would have switched to a PCI-E system when the entire industry had gone that way many years previously and most people wouldn't base their entire opinion of a companies products based on dodgey hybrid versions with weird hybrid interface chips that were never designed for that interface, nor the lack of bandwidth nor the fact the industry gave up on AGP years before.

But hey, thats just this crazy guys opinion. I won't go Nvidia ever again because they never made a 260gtx with a hybrid interface to fit into a ISA slot on my decade old mobo.......... how dare they not make a fantastic compatible product that works flawlessly. I'm also not happy with Intel, they didn't make a Q6600 compatible with my toaster :(
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quite ;)
 
my GTX 285 cost me £270 a few months back, today brand new it costs more (more than £10) on a competitor site i picked it up from

i think my future cards going to be ATI unless nvidea pull something amazing off :(
 
NVidia seem to have cocked up a bit. Anyone buying a card between a month or two ago and the release of fermi is surely going to take the ATI option. Surely they could have come up with a temporary option to at least offer some competition to ATI but it seems that they are content with just losing a tonne of money in the meantime.:confused:
 
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