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Intel Arc series unveiled with the Alchemist dGPU to arrive in Q1 2022
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Where does the extra £30 come from in your non-rockety science?
It was your maths i was using, i had hoped you'd got it right
So £370, where does your extra £30 to get to £400 come from. Unless i've misunderstood, this is for the LE version, which is the 16GB one, the 8GB will be cheaper.
This was meant to be for Ravenxxx2!
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The information I had seen stated it was for the LE edition - which would be only the 16GB edition - but that source has been recently edited to just say A770, so yeah could be for either.... so everything i've said can now be ignored!
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The information I had seen stated it was for the LE edition - which would be only the 16GB edition - but that source has been recently edited to just say A770, so yeah could be for either.... so everything i've said can now be ignored!
That information must be different from the link posted.
There's nothing about A770 pricing on Intel's site and the half a dozen websites I looked at about it all stated that the Arc 770 was priced from $329. Which would make the $329 price for the 8GB model.
I was making an estimate in my head from US$ to UK£ and factoring the difference in taxation and an estimate of the usual difference in pricing. Unless the exchange rate and/or taxation changes in the next couple of weeks, £350 is too low an estimate IMO. And that's assuming they're actually available at MSRP, which they might not be.
$329 is currently £308. That's without tax. 20% VAT makes it £369.20. So I was wrong in my off the top of my head estimation and RavenXXX2 was right with their number. The UK MSRP for Arc 770 8GB will be £370, not the £360 I thought.
So the 16GB version could actually be over £400, calling it the Limited Edition to make you feel like the price is justified, ffs.... 
Intel keep banging on about how much money they have, posting images of cash bundles stacked 10X higher than their competitors, telling tech journalists that unlike others they can afford to burn hundreds of millions.
They have Ryan Shrout, whose just the worst person in this industry, hoping from studio to studio talking up ARC talking absolute crap and all these tech journalists, who look like star struck teenage girls with them around, buy it hook line and sinker, you've got Linus holding an A380 up to the camera decreeing "buy this", you've got Steve Burke who never misses an opportunity to talk about how he never shows vendors performance slides pipes up and says Intel's performance slides are believable, you can trust them.
And so with all the tech press now with the program the GPU's are launching over priced, more so than the other two, i would argue.
Guys seriously, aren't you sick of this? Don't you think we deserve better than this? I'm serious.
Intel keep banging on about how much money they have, posting images of cash bundles stacked 10X higher than their competitors, telling tech journalists that unlike others they can afford to burn hundreds of millions.
They have Ryan Shrout, whose just the worst person in this industry, hoping from studio to studio talking up ARC talking absolute crap and all these tech journalists, who look like star struck teenage girls with them around, buy it hook line and sinker, you've got Linus holding an A380 up to the camera decreeing "buy this", you've got Steve Burke who never misses an opportunity to talk about how he never shows vendors performance slides pipes up and says Intel's performance slides are believable, you can trust them.
And so with all the tech press now with the program the GPU's are launching over priced, more so than the other two, i would argue.
Guys seriously, aren't you sick of this? Don't you think we deserve better than this? I'm serious.
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"Limited Edition" marketing code for limiting the number of people who will be suffering buyers remorse.So the 16GB version could actually be over £400, calling it the Limited Edition to make you feel like the price is justified, ffs....
Completely agree, my next post said that my source was updated to make it A770 rather than A770 LE so everything i'd said in the previous posts was outdated and to be ignored
Don't forget "Great value, looks like a great GPU for gaming" and "Price is high because of plummeting value of £". Think i've seen those on every GPU and CPU release here for the last 4 years now.I can't wait for Gibbo to put the 770 8GB up on pre-order for £435 with the usual "OK you lot - Order now! Limited availability! Best price in UK!"
That'll be a lively thread for sure.
One way or another we always get shafted over prices when it comes to the exchange rate, If its low, we get shafted by the market, if its high then OCUK (and other e-tailers) just use it to bump up their profit margin for free.
If the pound drops suddenly, prices go up immediately, if the pound rises sharply, prices come down less than the value increase and weeks after the fact.
So, either way, we the consumer, get screwed over.
Glad to see Intel is supplying dedicated GPUs to a market, judging by Nvidia's recent announcement, hopefully this will at least keep the entry-mid tier market competitive - the A770 appears to be a solid contender toward Nvidia's 3060/70 or AMD's RX6600-6700XT line; even if Intel's line up looks like at least a year older. Better to have decent selection of midrange cards which are competitively priced to put pressure on those inflated price on both high-end and entry-level cards.
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Even if they cancelled it they'd still want to sell stock lol.