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GTX 1070 - any takers?

I'm off to America next week and was thinking of buying a gtx 1070 ( if they have them in stock) as it would work out much cheaper for me. Would the card work OK if I buy it from the u s and will I still be OK having warranty with it? Thanks
 
ordered early around 10am before they got taken down, for an EVGA, paid for saturday delivery at £427.

got contacted to say no evga and if i wanted an msi. also got the free shipping email and a £27 refund, at least helped me feel a bit like getting a deal!
 
.Trooper. said:
EVGA explanation of the 1070 price:

"Its based on costs"
https://twitter.com/EVGA_JacobF/status/741362459760431104

Case closed boys, let's go home :D
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"based on costs" lol.

"Based on knowing we can bleed you ******* dry whilst stock is low" more like.

I don't blame them really. That is how capitalism works after all and it is gpu to play silly games on, not clean water.

Just wish they would be honest about it. I would have more respect for them then :p
 
.Trooper. said:
EVGA explanation of the 1070 price:

"Its based on costs"
https://twitter.com/EVGA_JacobF/status/741362459760431104

Case closed boys, let's go home :D
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Well then that would put the blame on Nvidia.

But I wouldn't take their word for it, because of course they would pass the blame to somebody else. And if true, these card-makers should be quite upset at Nvidia for charging an extra arm and a leg for UK/EU chips, because it makes them look bad. And retailers, too.

I still dont quite know where to point the finger in all this. The 970 prices still make me think that retailers are just worried about keeping new card prices high so they can sell off their 900 cards at a profit before AMD comes in and makes those cards hardly worth anything.

But retailers would also upset a LOT of people if they dropped prices within a month or two by a big degree. 'Early adopter tax' will not fly as a justification.

So we'll see.

tyler_jrb said:
£349 thats like launch price lol wtf.
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Dude, launch 970's were £260-300 for the *good* ones. My MSI Gaming was £280, which I bought in the first week.
 
Just wait for AMD to release something that rivals the GTX 1080 and the prices will plummet, I give it 3-6 months until this happens and their are no games that require me to upgrade atm, just waiting for BF1. (Been waiting 18 months to play Witcher 3 with a new GPU) :D
 
Funny how quickly things change... just yesterday the 1070 was being heralded as the King's Golden Gonads that would swept up by gamers in millions, rendering the 1080 an overpriced showcase piece... yet today it's an expensive pointless hunk of circuit board... the truth is somewhere in the middle of course and I'm quite angered by the whole thing myself tbh, but it certainly does make the cheaper 1080's far more appealing than they were 24 hours ago, even though I don't want to spend that much. Maybe this was their plan all along.
 
md99 said:
No surprise there, OCUK are one of the most expensive UK retailers around. They always come near or bottom of the pile when you run a pc build through a price checker.
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I dont think this is true. Ive investigated my current build thoroughly and oc are very competitive. I couldnt save more than a couple of pounds anywhere else when taking delivery charges into account.
 
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