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GoogalyMoogaly said:
I know what you mean. I'm getting very tempted by a 7990 now (maybe 2, no, no, I must resist 2! Should resist 1 really). It's just hard to justify £450 on the Asus card when you can get a XFX one plus a XFX PSU worth around £100 for £480.

I get what Gibbo says about the Asus having a 3 year RMA compared to the XFX 2 year one. But 3 years of completely useless CS & RMA doesn't seem like enough of a selling point over 2 years of completely useless CS & RMA to justify not spending an extra £30 to get a £100 PSU (which I believe is decent, my understanding is XFX PSUs are pretty decent). I could actually do with a decent modular PSU.

I'm guessing there's not really a whole lot in the 7990 between the 2 manufacturers as they both seem to be reference design.

I would prefer to buy from OcUK though.
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Hi there

OK we've done some working, OK I got my calculator out and the result is the Asus is now £399.95 Inc. VAT :D

Also as you all now know, since OcUK was taken over, we will now deal with the full warranty term and sort with Asus for our customers for the 3yr period. :)
 
You just cannot lose with this deal on 7990. If price drops before ETA which is: 08/11/13 I am sure OCUK will honour the price drop, or if another mad deal comes out you can cancel the order and order something else instead.
Gibbo am I right?
 
$ilent said:
Gibbo what is your policy for Sapphire cards?
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We honor the warranty for 2yr if that is what you mean. :)

If you mean what do I think of them? They are one of the best and we are trying to convince them out of their old ways of 2yr warranty and to change to 3yr. :)

But their product is top quality, never let us down.
 
CivilDrone said:
You just cannot lose with this deal on 7990. If price drops before ETA which is: 08/11/13 I am sure OCUK will honour the price drop, or if another mad deal comes out you can cancel the order and order something else instead.
Gibbo am I right?
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We won't be dropping price any further and I doubt there will be any better deals. Come on its a 7990 for sub £400, this was never expected, but Asus had stock and needed it gone so dropped their pants frankly speaking.

But yes anyone ordering can also cancel at any time as well.
 
Hmm have just spent £480 on the 290x, worth rejecting the delivery(its coming this evening) and ordering the 7990 instead (yes I know wouldn't get bf4 with the 7990 but I'm not that bothered with bf4)? But the 7990 is 'old tech' compared to the 290x, I'm planning on xfire with the 290x in the future which'll be a lot better than the 7990 but much more expensive.
 
fowler002 said:
Hmm have just spent £480 on the 290x, worth rejecting the delivery(its coming this evening) and ordering the 7990 instead (yes I know wouldn't get bf4 with the 7990 but I'm not that bothered with bf4)? But the 7990 is 'old tech' compared to the 290x, I'm planning on xfire with the 290x in the future which'll be a lot better than the 7990 but much more expensive.
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Depends what you want, single GPU cards give zero problems. Dual GPU cards can have incompatibility issues but are faster.

The choice is yours. :)
 
Gibbo said:
If you mean what do I think of them? They are one of the best and we are trying to convince them out of their old ways of 2yr warranty and to change to 3yr. :)

But their product is top quality, never let us down.
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I've only used Sapphire cards for the last 12+ years (after moving from 3dfx to Geforce then ATI), from a Sapphire 9700pro, to Sapphire 2900XT then an Asus 4870 (had 2 of them that I had problems with and OCUK exchanged) for a Sapphire 4870 (thanks guys!).

Only recently I changed... To MSI, so far I'm happy - but I'd have stuck with Sapphire if OCUK had given me a choice. ;)

Any manufacturer that OCUK are doing warranty for, you will not be disappointed!

Back on topic... Was expecting some money that didn't come my way this month so defo gonna miss getting the 7990... But more than happy with my 7950! :D
 
dandubi said:
Well that has put a spanner in the works!!

Was set on the 7970 Matrix... But now tempted with MSI R9 280X!
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Have MSI sorted the heat issues with their 280X? I read a review that said the VRM circuitry overheats and the card then throttles itself. The GPU also runs at around 87C when gaming (and that's before any overclocking!!).... But i suppose it's also possible the review site could have a defective card.
 
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