@Gibbo - Vega Preorders?

Dave2150 · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:07

@Gibbo, will we be able to pre-order the limited edition Vega cards soon, or will be have to wait for the 14th?

I'm eager to preorder my liquid cooled limited edition, along with a Ryzen 7 cpu/motherboard with the offer code.

Cheers!

erazor51 · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:09

Same here but just the GPU

VincentHanna · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:17

Wouldn't you be better off waiting for the reviews?

beany_bot · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:20

Rumors are that Vega might be sold as a "bundle" with games and stuff. To discourage miners.

erazor51 · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:25

VincentHanna said:
Wouldn't you be better off waiting for the reviews?

Can't risk the miners taking them all.

Rroff · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:38

Be interesting to see when OcUK gets stock assuming they haven't already - we have zero, zilch, nada access to any Vega stock at work before the end of September at the earliest.

(Or rather that is a rolling date as there just is no info even though SKUs are raised on the system though as it isn't my department I have no info on the finer points of it).

ubersonic · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:53

beany_bot said:
Rumors are that Vega might be sold as a "bundle" with games and stuff. To discourage miners.

erazor51 said:
Can't risk the miners taking them all.

Which part of similar price/performance to Nvidia cards but 2-3 times the power consumption sounds like something miners would want? lmao.

schneeb · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:55

I'd like to know about the one with normal blower that i'll be taking off eventually anyway

erazor51 · 31 Jul 2017 at 13:57

ubersonic said:
Which part of similar price/performance to Nvidia cards but 2-3 times the power consumption sounds like something miners would want? lmao.

Vega has special instruction set for mining plus miners use custom bios with different voltage settings to maximise the best power to performance ratio.

beany_bot · 31 Jul 2017 at 14:03

ubersonic said:
Which part of similar price/performance to Nvidia cards but 2-3 times the power consumption sounds like something miners would want? lmao.

when their prefered cards sell out worldwide. They move onto the next best, and so on and so on. Haven't you been paying attention? The 480/580s sold out, then they went after the 1060's/1070s

ubersonic · 31 Jul 2017 at 14:26

beany_bot said:
when their prefered cards sell out worldwide. They move onto the next best, and so on and so on. Haven't you been paying attention?

Yes, however until we reach the point where Vega are the only GPUs available on the planet that isn't going to be an issue. Nobody is going to buy a Vega GPU over a GTX1070/1080/1080ti and I don't see them becoming impossible to find anytime soon.

Bonjour · 31 Jul 2017 at 14:29

ubersonic said:
Yes, however until we reach the point where Vega are the only GPUs available on the planet that isn't going to be an issue. Nobody is going to buy a Vega GPU over a GTX1070/1080/1080ti and I don't see them becoming impossible to find anytime soon.

I am. Just because...

ubersonic · 31 Jul 2017 at 14:32

Bonjour said:
I am. Just because...

Well, you're not indicative of most miners lets just say that.

Bonjour · 31 Jul 2017 at 14:35

ubersonic said:
Well, you're not indicative of most miners lets just say that.

Ooh. I see what you mean. I concur.

Gibbo · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:02

Pre-orders shall be listed 14:00 on 14th August guys!

LeMson · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:07

Thanks for the info Gibbo!

Freddie1980 · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:20

I can see those pre orders now........

Dave2150 · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:25

Gibbo said:
Pre-orders shall be listed 14:00 on 14th August guys!

Cheers

Gerard · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:27

So no stock for the launch date it seems, always the waiting game.

Martini1991 · 31 Jul 2017 at 16:39

Gibbo said:
Pre-orders shall be listed 14:00 on 14th August guys!

Pre orders. Does that mean no stock on the 14?