Gibbo... I hate you! x1800xt 512MB for £258?!

Alexrose1uk · 2 Mar 2006 at 10:27

Damn you OcUK...you're going to destroy my wallet. Everytime I have a budget, something appears just over it, which is better, to hurt it :eek:

Kyo · 2 Mar 2006 at 10:56

ARggh - that just makes me want to upgrade now despite only getting my new card only a month ago!!! :eek:

Agent WD40 · 2 Mar 2006 at 11:11

Err, thanks kinda why they do it...

But I know what you mean.

paul8811 · 2 Mar 2006 at 11:38

damn...I bet he done that so all of us going to buy the connect 1800xt 256mb will now be thinking only another £25 for the 512 version

Kyo · 2 Mar 2006 at 11:41

hehe gets to you after while don't it?. Glad i am not the only one.

melchy · 2 Mar 2006 at 11:51

I find that a little annoying as a fair few of us bought the 512Mb XT's at around £279 which we were told was a limited price and that it was likely they'd go back up, which they did for a while. A few weeks later on and they are now £20 cheaper than we purchased them at, Grrr.

Still not a bad deal even at £279 when i got mine. For the extra £25 or so over the 256Mb version you'd be as well going for it

Wonder if it will show up in todays "This Week Only".

welshtom · 2 Mar 2006 at 12:05

you believe the shop when they say "it'll only go up in price from here"

played like a second hand fiddle.

Tom

melchy · 2 Mar 2006 at 12:12

welshtom said:
you believe the shop when they say "it'll only go up in price from here"

played like a second hand fiddle.

Tom

Not entirely, and as i said the price did indeed rise back to over £300 for a period. When i purchased £279 was a great price for the card. It just appears that Gibbo is starting to use the board much more as a marketing tool in recent times than it has been in the past. As the boards are a community in general i didnt particularly have any reason to doubt the truth in what was being said about the pricing of the X1800XT 512Mb. Perhaps they have located further stock which has enabled them to drop the price back down again. Whatever the reason, people now are getting a good deal which is in fact better than the previous offer.

Kyo · 2 Mar 2006 at 12:12

man really temped to get sell my 7800Gt now and get one of these babes

ACESHIGH · 2 Mar 2006 at 12:46

melchy said:
Perhaps they have located further stock which has enabled them to drop the price back down again. Whatever the reason, people now are getting a good deal which is in fact better than the previous offer.

as you said prices did go up over £300 for a while.

and i do beleive the above quoted part of your statement is correct.
Why?, because a few days back the PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB cards were showing as 1-3 days (not In Stock), thus meaning current stock had sold out & new stock was arriving. Obviously these cards are selling really well (& rightly so) & i suspect the next order was placed by OcUK at a very good price (due to past high demand), so now they can sell them cheaper.

thats how i see it.

Olly · 2 Mar 2006 at 13:40

the way i see it (especially with gfx cards) is that no matter how early or how much you buy hardware for, you can bet your bottom dollar within a few weeks/months it wont be "top of the range" or hold its value.
I bought a 2nd 7800 gtx a 2 weeks ago for 340 and have seen OEM ones for 270.
probably due to the iminent release of the 7900 series.
Thats the ways its always been and thats the way it always will be imo

Goksly · 2 Mar 2006 at 14:34

Its £20 cheaper than when we brought them.... prices go down - dont moan about a great offer that has been beat by a better offer.

Alexrose1uk · 2 Mar 2006 at 14:39

I'm not...was going to get a 256MB version, but as I have a large monitor, and like my 1600x1200 gaming, 512MB version, here I come in 2 weeks. Hope my pay check can cover everything

LoadsaMoney · 2 Mar 2006 at 15:23

Olly said:
the way i see it (especially with gfx cards) is that no matter how early or how much you buy hardware for, you can bet your bottom dollar within a few weeks/months it wont be "top of the range" or hold its value.
I bought a 2nd 7800 gtx a 2 weeks ago for 340 and have seen OEM ones for 270.
probably due to the iminent release of the 7900 series.
Thats the ways its always been and thats the way it always will be imo

Not in the case of the x1900's, as they went down in price after just 3x days, all those who bought em on release day = gutted.

Goksly · 2 Mar 2006 at 15:31

Anyone who buys within 2 weeks of a card release is just throwing money away. pre-orders are the work of the devil

toucam · 2 Mar 2006 at 16:41

Bought mine for £270, the very next day it wend down to £258 :rolleyes:

, ah well, £270 for a 1800XT 512MB is still cracking price though. Can't complain. I'm sure the stock is shifting like mad.

LoadsaMoney · 2 Mar 2006 at 16:54

toucam said:
Bought mine for £270, the very next day it wend down to £258 , ah well, £270 for a 1800XT 512MB is still cracking price though. Can't complain. I'm sure the stock is shifting like mad.

£258 is also the same price for the Gainward Bliss 7800 GT in the 'This Week Only', anyone who buys that over the 512mb x1800 XT is absolutely bonkers.

G.O.A.T · 2 Mar 2006 at 17:29

LoadsaMoney said:
Not in the case of the x1900's, as they went down in price after just 3x days, all those who bought em on release day = gutted.

That'll be me then

d'oh

pumaz · 2 Mar 2006 at 17:30

Thats it for me i'm not buying top end hardware anymore, just gaonna buy what i need to run the games i play. I was stung in January when i bought my X1800XT for £342 believing it to be a limited offer

Increasingly this is becoming a mugs game!

the.m · 2 Mar 2006 at 17:35

pumaz said:
Thats it for me i'm not buying top end hardware anymore, just gaonna buy what i need to run the games i play. I was stung when i bought my X1800XT for £342 believing it to be a limited offer

Increasingly this is becoming a mugs game!

Agreed, Im holding off as well due to paying £430 for GTX on release, the cards are coming too fast for my liking and my card plays anything anyway.