HD 79xx Prices

Secret_Window · 15 Apr 2012 at 15:18

Two 7950s in crossfire is a superb combination for anyone wanting to max every game in. In fact for a lot of things it's overkill. Just one OC 7950 has been enough for me in the majority of the games out at the moment.

pgi947 · 15 Apr 2012 at 15:20

PGdude said:
Nice one, hope that'll be going into a project log?

It will be indeed, hopeful OCUK drop the price on the tech lab 7970 for my 2nd, I hate fitting GPU blocks.

a66as said:
7970 is still £399, should i expect or to go down to £350?

As a bare min expect £360 by tues, but other offers are dipping as low as £340 so keep your eyes open. I would say at a guess 7970's will be retailing for ~£300 inside the next 3-4 months.

spain · 15 Apr 2012 at 15:32

Menty said:
I paid 370 quid for my overclocked custom cooler 7950 so 335 is good value for a similar specced card with stonking performance.
My opinion is based on current pricing not on what someone would like to pay!

+1
Good post.

Surveyor · 15 Apr 2012 at 15:55

a66as said:
7970 is still £399, should i expect or to go down to £350?

Read the first post in the thread.

BrotherMuzone · 15 Apr 2012 at 19:53

When do you think the prices will go down? Monday Tuesday Wednesday..?? Im getting too excited =p

pgi947 · 15 Apr 2012 at 23:14

Found sapphire and vtx ref 7970's for £368, seems ocuk's pricing will be very competative.

Clairvoyant · 16 Apr 2012 at 08:24

Do you know if it is all makes and models or just reference versions.

Menty · 16 Apr 2012 at 09:13

Clairvoyant said:
Do you know if it is all makes and models or just reference versions.

Gibbo said:
Hi there

It shall be as before, only cheapest/plainest cards will hit those price points.

Mangochutney · 16 Apr 2012 at 09:33

They've gone down peeps!!

Gibbo · 16 Apr 2012 at 09:35

Pricing re-adjusted down! Price drop not as much as AMD originally planned, but still good all the same though.

As per the NVIDIA price drop, were on a sell out rebate, which ends in a few weeks and new buy-ins are not quite as good as the price the rebate gives. So pricing right now is very good.

pgi947 · 16 Apr 2012 at 10:07

Still pretty good, tech lab cards coming down too?

[timko] · 17 Apr 2012 at 20:49

Hopefully Nvidia will respond, once they get better stock levels in the channel of course

Troezar · 17 Apr 2012 at 21:08

Gibbo said:
Pricing re-adjusted down! Price drop not as much as AMD originally planned, but still good all the same though.

As per the NVIDIA price drop, were on a sell out rebate, which ends in a few weeks and new buy-ins are not quite as good as the price the rebate gives. So pricing right now is very good.

So the 680 is going up in price? At this rate I reckon I'll just wait for greater 28nm availability. Looks like prices won't become sensible until then...

BodgeITandRun · 17 Apr 2012 at 21:12

Edit by Gibbo - Mentioning competitors prices is against the rules.

Gibbo · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:01

BodgeITandRun said:
Edit by Gibbo - Mentioning competitors prices is against the rules.

I edited your post as it breached our rules, but to answer your question were not lowering our prices any further on 79xx cards I am afraid. But sending webnotes to price match items is welcomed, sometimes we can, othertimes we can't, in this instance we can't.

Gibbo · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:04

Troezar said:
So the 680 is going up in price? At this rate I reckon I'll just wait for greater 28nm availability. Looks like prices won't become sensible until then...

Pricing is sensible!

We've got 200+ in stock, now arriving in 100's, the manufacturers price is now set, neither them or OcUK is making an additional or crazy margins, at best based on current USD costings and if we hammered margins very low £399.99 inc. vat can be just about hit, though it means making very little money as such we don't. However if you got a 10% FB code then thats worth a good £40-£50 of a 680!

For price to serious move down will require action from NVIDIA and at the moment were still selling close to 40-50 680's per day, the 680 is flying off the shelves at current price. As such NVIDIA has no need to lower price, they are still outselling AMD.

BodgeITandRun · 17 Apr 2012 at 22:23

Gibbo said:
I edited your post as it breached our rules, but to answer your question were not lowering our prices any further on 79xx cards I am afraid. But sending webnotes to price match items is welcomed, sometimes we can, othertimes we can't, in this instance we can't.

Apologies, I mistakenly thought I was OK to mention it if I didn't say where.

I am looking at the Sapphire 7970 OC as the price is good for that, or the lightning, but the lack of no 10% discount or free shipping is hurting my feelings.

Yes yes, I should post 250 times and I am working on it, but without spamming I can only do so much.

Surveyor · 17 Apr 2012 at 23:28

BodgeITandRun said:
Yes yes, I should post 250 times and I am working on it, but without spamming I can only do so much.

There are quite a few people making 20, 30 or 40 posts a day without spamming.

Pay a visit to General Discussion.

I'm sure you'll find some threads there you can get involved in.

d_brennen · 17 Apr 2012 at 23:33

The first 1k posts seem to last forever, then the thousands roll by

Ultraman1966 · 17 Apr 2012 at 23:45

Gibbo said:
For price to serious move down will require action from NVIDIA and at the moment were still selling close to 40-50 680's per day, the 680 is flying off the shelves at current price. As such NVIDIA has no need to lower price, they are still outselling AMD.

Is that right? 40 to 50 per day? At +420 quid per card? Who are these rich folks?