LOWEST PRICING IN UK ON NVIDIA: 1060 £179.99, 1070 £349.99 & 1080 £449.99 !!

Kurgen · 23 Aug 2017 at 13:40

im looking for 2x GTX1060 6gb for 2 mates, will there be any deals on these coming up? or is this the cheapest im likely to find. looking to order in the next couple of weeks

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 Mini 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £248.99

Total: £258.89
(includes shipping: £9.90)

Kurgen · 23 Aug 2017 at 13:45

oh it dropped in price just after i posted!

osirisrt · 23 Aug 2017 at 15:43

Nice one! Purchased the Inno 3d 1060 6gb!

Thanks!

Kurgen · 23 Aug 2017 at 19:42

just bought 2.. 1 for me and one for my brother

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 Mini 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 1060 Twin X2 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £248.99

Total: £488.98
(includes shipping: £0.00)

Telecaster · 25 Aug 2017 at 18:37

Went for one of the Zotac 1070s minis - really nice looking card and seems well made. Will get it dropped into the rig tomorrow and see how it goes. Had accumulated some spare change in my paypal account that I'd forgot about so it ended up costing me £290.

JediFragger · 25 Aug 2017 at 19:07

Telecaster said:
Went for one of the Zotac 1070s minis - really nice looking card and seems well made.

I'm really impressed by this new OcUK system with a Ti Mini in it, lots of power for such a small custom sys! Esp if a potential buyer can wait for Coffee Lake :cool:

Bobszee · 26 Aug 2017 at 14:03

The Zotac 1070 mini price is great, but the shipping cost is huge to Hungary. £28

jigger · 26 Aug 2017 at 14:05

waiting for Vega 56. OcUK might be one to the blessed retailers that can sell for RRP.

rtho782 · 26 Aug 2017 at 14:33

jigger said:
waiting for Vega 56. OcUK might be one to the blessed retailers that can sell for RRP.

Probably for about the first three cards only, after which it goes to 1080 pricing for 1070 performance and a boatload more power use.

jigger · 26 Aug 2017 at 14:56

rtho782 said:
Probably for about the first three cards only, after which it goes to 1080 pricing for 1070 performance and a boatload more power use.

Who knows. But I thought the power use was great once setup.

JediFragger · 26 Aug 2017 at 15:46

jigger said:
But I thought the power use was great once setup.

Thing is, how many buyers (gamers) will actually do such a thing? 2%? The vast majority will just plug and play!

jigger · 26 Aug 2017 at 15:57

JediFragger said:
Thing is, how many buyers (gamers) will actually do such a thing? 2%? The vast majority will just plug and play!

How many buyers are bothered about power use? How many could really give a monkey's? To me the tree huggers need to go away.

Makes me laugh when people buy a high-end card and point out power use as a factor. Power use comes behind what the included driver disc taste like.

HeX · 26 Aug 2017 at 17:22

jigger said:
How many buyers are bothered about power use? How many could really give a monkey's? To me the tree huggers need to go away.

Makes me laugh when people buy a high-end card and point out power use as a factor. Power use comes behind what the included driver disc taste like.

It's more the fact you are getting the same performance with a much higher power usage a year late.

If you want 1070 performance why not just buy a 1070 and also have a cooler/quieter/less power hungry card at the same time?...

jigger · 26 Aug 2017 at 17:36

HeX said:
It's more the fact you are getting the same performance with a much higher power usage a year late.

If you want 1070 performance why not just buy a 1070 and also have a cooler/quieter/less power hungry card at the same time?...

Well you need to define much higher power use and how that could possibly be a factor worth considering. Unless the difference is hundreds of watts it just not a thing. Even then I'd still probably go for the more power hungry card if the performance was on offer.

At RRP the VEGA card is just a better card all around. Hopefully with Volta Nvidia will be an option again.

rtho782 · 26 Aug 2017 at 17:56

Electricity costs in the UK, average 14.37p/kWh.

If a GPU uses 100W extra, on a 95% efficient PSU, it draws 105W extra from the wall.

If you use it 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, that's 20 hours a week, or 1040 a year. That's 109.2kWh a year, or £15 a year.

If you keep the GPU for 3 years, that's an extra £45.

Given that we all know the price won't hold, it will end up being more than the 1070. Add in the extra electricity cost, and it's quite a bit more, to the point that the "Gsync tax" is smaller than the "AMD tax". You also potentially need a bigger PSU, the thing is over a year late, etc. This one is a bit of a fail from AMD.

If more performance were on offer, maybe, but the vega 64 uses more power than the 1080ti, costs as much as the 1080ti, and performs way worse. It's a pointless product.

Hopefully with Navi AMD will be an option again.

jigger · 26 Aug 2017 at 18:42

rtho782 said:
Electricity costs in the UK, average 14.37p/kWh.

If a GPU uses 100W extra, on a 95% efficient PSU, it draws 105W extra from the wall.

If you use it 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, that's 20 hours a week, or 1040 a year. That's 109.2kWh a year, or £15 a year.

If you keep the GPU for 3 years, that's an extra £45.

Given that we all know the price won't hold, it will end up being more than the 1070. Add in the extra electricity cost, and it's quite a bit more, to the point that the "Gsync tax" is smaller than the "AMD tax". You also potentially need a bigger PSU, the thing is over a year late, etc. This one is a bit of a fail from AMD.

If more performance were on offer, maybe, but the vega 64 uses more power than the 1080ti, costs as much as the 1080ti, and performs way worse. It's a pointless product.

Hopefully with Navi AMD will be an option again.

Seriously a whole £15 a year. But isn't the power difference closer to 50 watts between the VEGA 56 and GTX 1070. factor in the AMD card is faster and the argument falls apart.

Telecaster · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:10

To me power efficiency isn't about cost, it's about heat and noise, more power = more heat and much louder card = not interested.

opethdisciple · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:32

Telecaster said:
To me power efficiency isn't about cost, it's about heat and noise, more power = more heat and much louder card = not interested.

Pretty much the same for me. I have average case cooling and PC is in a loft conversion. A naturally cool running card is what I need.

jigger · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:43

Telecaster said:
To me power efficiency isn't about cost, it's about heat and noise, more power = more heat and much louder card = not interested.

I can understand a loud card in a small system with limited cooling. But if I had the choice between a 500 watt card that was twice as fast as a 200 watt card ànd offered better performance for the money I'd take the performance over the lower power every time.

Telecaster · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:46

jigger said:
I can understand a loud card in a small system with limited cooling. But if I had the choice between a 500 watt card that was twice as fast as a 200 watt card ànd offered better performance for the money I'd take the performance over the lower power every time.

Chances are though those two cards are never likely to be in the same price bracket so that scenario isn't going to happen. Ever.