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*** MASSIVE PRICE DROP ON VEGA UNTIL JUNE 30th: VEGA 56 £450 & VEGA 64 £550 !! ***
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and everyone knows why they are that price, they probably dont need a constant running commentary about it whinging on over and over and over every time there is a vega thread created.
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TBH even without the bracket, it's so well built I think it would be solid, but the motherboard might not like it
No issues with my V56 since I installed it and it's exactly the same externally. The bracket just seems like insurance
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It's not fantasy world, it's called not getting ripped off by AMD/Nvidia. Some on here obviously can't comprehend that.
This this this.
Get tired of this "good price for today" crap.
No it isn't, not when we have had this performance for 2+ years already now and certainly not when prices have been much better than this
Technology should be evolving every year and old gen stuff should be getting cheaper, not stagnating and going up in price......
I agree, the one aspect many seem to forget on here is that everything is parity now with consoles. I would see the point if the extra £200/300 was justified, but it's not, devs aren't taking extra advantage of the hardware, so why should i pay an extra £200/300 just to get souped up console ports.
People paying these prices are just irresponsible with money. It's an act of lunacy imo.
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I think stating people are irresponsible with money is a bit OTT 
. It's no different than any other expensive hobby, or expensive purchase. People have different levels of disposable income. If they want a GPU and willing to pay the price then **** it, that's up to the individual.
I overtook a Maserati earlier in my old banger "bump around town" Yaris (motorway, they were doing < 70, I was doing 70). It's worth £1200 but gets someone from a to b and can hit 70 (the speed limit), does that make someone spending £100k on a car irresponsible with money given that both cars do the same thing and the maximum spseed is 70mph which both cars can hit? Course not.
Some folks spend £3.5+ a day on Costa coffee. That soon mounts up too, £875 a year based on 5 a week, 50 week of the year....5 mins to drink, down the toilet an hour later.....
. It's no different than any other expensive hobby, or expensive purchase. People have different levels of disposable income. If they want a GPU and willing to pay the price then **** it, that's up to the individual.I overtook a Maserati earlier in my old banger "bump around town" Yaris (motorway, they were doing < 70, I was doing 70
). It's worth £1200 but gets someone from a to b and can hit 70 (the speed limit), does that make someone spending £100k on a car irresponsible with money given that both cars do the same thing and the maximum spseed is 70mph which both cars can hit? Course not.Some folks spend £3.5+ a day on Costa coffee. That soon mounts up too, £875 a year based on 5 a week, 50 week of the year....5 mins to drink, down the toilet an hour later....
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And these two posts show you are living in a fantasy world. V56/V64/1070 and I presume you forgot the 1080 since the V64 is on par with the 1080. You want that level of performance for less than £300. LOL dream on. Where have you been for the last 6 years? Mid range cards have been priced higher than that since the jump to 20nm and the release of the first Kepler cards.
At the end of the day we live in today's world, not your fantasy one. Nobody is forcing you to buy anything. There are GPUs available at most price points and you can also buy a console if no gpu suits you.
I like the way you call the people in charge of Nvidia and AMD incompetents, when both are making profit, AMD making a profit for first time in years. At your pricing, both companies would have to close down.
I suggest you read the following post.
Yeah, good luck with that. Other than the odd bargain, most of the 1080ti's and VEGA cards have been offered for ebay style prices on the MM.
I'm far more pragmatic when it comes to GPU prices. Gaming is the hobby I enjoy the most and if I have to spend a few hundred pound more on a GPU than "normal" because the market has decided to gouge due to circumstances way beyond anything I can control, it's not a huge deal in the big scheme of things. If you enjoy gaming so much, why worry about the cost so long as you can afford it? Like any hobby the true value is what you get out of it, not how much it costs. Sure, I'd love prices to be like they used to be, but they aren't and that's not going to change, at least short to medium term.
I have friends who can easily blow £150-£200 on a weekend night out with nothing to show for it the next day then go do the same in a few weeks, and I sit at home worrying that I might spend that much extra on something that will give me months, possibly years of pleasure?
Nahh, life's too short. Buy what you can afford and enjoy it
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LOL at the Team Green fanbois out in force spreading lies again.
I get the points on the prices - I paid £70 less on Gibbo's pre-launch special offer for a reference Vega 56. Free market is the free market. Bitching about prices not being to your preference won't bring them down until there's oversupply.
I get the points on the prices - I paid £70 less on Gibbo's pre-launch special offer for a reference Vega 56. Free market is the free market. Bitching about prices not being to your preference won't bring them down until there's oversupply.
Great to be rid of Nvidia spyware in my system !!
Lovely card this, so much girth and length was worried it wouldn't fit ! xD
It is one of the major plus AMD do have, both Sapphire and TUL make great looking cards with their Nitro and Devil series products, also exceptional quality too.
These Sapphire units are nearly all gone unfortunately, I am going to discuss with Sapphire about getting more but they are saying probably won't be another batch until end of June and were down to less than 20 left now on these Sapphire Nitro which are proving rather popular at this price.
V64 £458 and prey + wolfenstein II chucked in was a great deal by Gibbo back in Nov.
6 months on sorry but nope these prices aren't good. Lol at the AMd defense team justifying the prices.
My v64 has nearly paid for itself, and the latest drivers are brilliant for gaming and mining. Vega is a failure compared to Nvidia, but it's still a great card in my opinion.
6 months on sorry but nope these prices aren't good. Lol at the AMd defense team justifying the prices.
My v64 has nearly paid for itself, and the latest drivers are brilliant for gaming and mining. Vega is a failure compared to Nvidia, but it's still a great card in my opinion.
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My logic is very simple: if a GTX1080 had been available for just over £400 at one point, paying £550+ for a Vega64 seem like maddness.
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Great to be rid of Nvidia spyware in my system !!
Wow what a ridiculous comment, you are paranoid like Putin.
There are really no spyware in Nvidia and AMD driver or Windows 10. Actually it is called telemetry that is really just to collect diagnostic data when apps and games crashed or have issues.
AMD driver has telemetry data disguised as User Experience Program so it will send telemetry data automatically if you enabled User Experience Program.
https://www.techpowerup.com/236853/...oftware-crimson-relive-edition-17-9-1-drivers
More detail about AMD User Experience Program:
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/am...nceprogram&utm_medium=redirect&utm_source=301
More detail about Nvidia Privacy Policy:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/privacy-center/
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12811/nvidia-releases-39793-whql-driver-telemetry-changes-for-gdpr
Nvidia telemetry data worked much the same way as Microsoft do with Windows 10, Nvidia's Privacy Center allow you manage your privacy settings and email preferences so you can view your data which Nvidia collected from you and also you can delete your Nvidia telemetry data just like you can delete diagnostic data Microsoft collected telemetry data from you in Windows 10 1803 after view it with diagnostic data viewer.
I been viewed my Windows 10 diagnostic data and I am very happy with it as it did not contained spyware and no privacy information extracted from me. Nvidia's new Privacy Center is very interesting after comply with EU GDPR General Data Protection Regulation took effective on 25 May 2018 so I requested my data to view what information Nvidia collect from me, it will be interesting reading my data.
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Must admit, I tick all the "share everything" boxes if it's a company I personally trust with my data, and most large companies I do. As I'm in the software industry I think it's all great too. People seem to think they're special and there's a human analysing their data but nobody really cares - it's just data/stats stored to help make decisions/improve the quality of the software/product. As software increases in size and complexity, getting usage and diagnostic stats from those out there using the software can go a large way to improving the quality of the software.
if we want a technology world that gives us the best user experience we need to share our data.
if we want a technology world that gives us the best user experience we need to share our data.
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Your logic is flawed. You can't get a GTX 1080 new for £400 either.
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These are selling at this price because nvidia will launch a new card soon and AMD have nothing = lower AMD prices come end of july anyway along with a down turn on mining GPU demand. So are you getting a good deal? Possibly but you are buying an old product. I'd wait until you see what nvidia announces around July before buying anything at any price right now even if you think it might be a good one as for AMD to stay competitive when nvidia launch their next card they'll have to lower prices full stop.
From Digit Times - "But the sudden decline in demand for mining graphics cards in April caused TUL's revenues for the month to plunge 80% sequentially to NT$280 million, the lowest since May 2017"
From Digit Times - "But the sudden decline in demand for mining graphics cards in April caused TUL's revenues for the month to plunge 80% sequentially to NT$280 million, the lowest since May 2017"
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Maybe cards will simply stop being manufactured, because with the big die and HBM it won't be possible to make a profit on a price that the market deems acceptable.
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Yup, a massive 80% drop, because no ones been buying AMDs cards for gaming, only mining, and that bubbles now burst, all AMDs partners will be hit severely now, and the ones that only do AMDs cards (like PowerColor), even more so, and when the 11s come out, how much faster are they going to be! 
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Yup, a massive 80% drop, because no ones been buying AMDs cards for gaming, only mining, and that bubbles now burst, all AMDs partners will be hit severely now, and the ones that only do AMDs cards (like PowerColor), even more so, and when the 11s come out, how much faster are they going to be!
Of course the alternate way to look at it is that sales are back normal after going up 80% during the mining boom?