NVIDIA 4000 Series

[Tykey]

Honestly, I'm getting so fed up of not being able to close my side panel lol. I've said it already, but I do think if I can grab a FE I'll sell the AMP. It's been a perfect card, really good, but constantly battling my two rat cats getting close to the PC is getting tiresome.

i feel your pain! i've resorted to building a barricade around my open-cased pc to keep my doggo out. it's pretty secure so i'm just gonna leave it as is although i expect with time it's gonna get very dusty inside.

 

[MidKnight]

Thanks, ordered. Their pricing seems to be a bit all over the place so interesting to see if the right card turns up

Yeah it's weird - the Tuf and the Turf OC are the same price and below ASUS RRP! I wonder if it's like Gibbo says and it's more of a fishing exercise. I am still hoping for an FE drop this week...

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Without getting into a long discussion, and whilst I agree with much of what you say, £ was 1.30-1.40 to the $ last year when all of this was true as well.
The main reason for £/Euro crashing this year, is that prospects for the European economy are much worse as a result of Putin's madness, eg much more expensive oil/gas, cost of sanctions on us (no more cheap raw materials etc) from Russia.
Yes we have some of our own oil/gas but we still have to pay international prices for that. The oil companies make a fortune and the gov has got some of that back in windfall taxes.
Also yes the Fed aggresively increasing interest rates helps the $ too, hence recent BOE action, but we still have lower rates than US.

But the issue is lots of global currencies are weaking against the dollar,and the Euro was falling from last year too. The political instability in the last year hasn't helped the UK as trust has fallen in our finances(also we handled Brexit very poorly in terms of trade). The big issue is still that the US printed too much money last year and that takes time to have an effect,and their fixes are contributing to global inflation as their currency looks artificially strong. Whatever the war is doing is adding to the problems we have and many of these have existed since the subprime crash. The true effect of the war will be next year when Europe has no access to Russian energy,but again the UK should be far less affected. Norway owns 2/3 of the joint venture which runs its oil/gas fields. Most of the problems we have are down to poor and short sighted get rich policies.Then you have environmentalists who don't want Europe to exploit it's own limited natural resources either,so we end up being too excessively dependent on imports(which further makes costs higher) - they seem content to export all the pollution abroad(and a lot of jobs and economic security). The war shouldn't be affecting the UK as bad as Germany,Hungary who have no oil/gas and have been reliant for 50 years on Russia/USSR. The big issue next year,is whether there is enough gas and oil capacity in the rest of the world,especially for LNG. But since we destroyed Libya,and sanctioned Iran and Venzuela that is a huge amount of shipbourne oil and LNG out of the world markets. Ironically Russia benefited the most from all of the latter.

Anyway,perhaps all of this is beyond the remit of this thread,so I should probably stop now!

 

[lee_83]

Yeah it's weird - the Tuf and the Turf OC are the same price and below ASUS RRP! I wonder if it's like Gibbo says and it's more of a fishing exercise. I am still hoping for an FE drop this week...

Asus TUF non-OC MSRP is £1699, there was some stock last week but missed out unfortunately. They've taken payment and I have confirmation email so fingers crossed

 

[MidKnight]

Asus TUF non-OC MSRP is £1699, there was some stock last week but missed out unfortunately. They've taken payment and I have confirmation email so fingers crossed

Sorry yes - I was referring to the OC ver which is cheaper than RRP (but not in stock)

 

[VincentHanna]

All bloody Putin's fault. £ was at $1.30-1.40 before his madness!

You might want to check what it was prior to the brexit vote.

£1 was $1.50

 

[rumple9]

You might want to check what it was prior to the brexit vote.

£1 was $1.50

£1 was 2.11 dollars under the last labour government

 

[Cooper]

Lol, someone is coming off Nvidia's Christmas card list, even if he is 100% bang on with his scathing analysis of Nvidia's cynical greed driven market manipulation..

Spoiler: Article on the 40xx GPU's

 

[Jay-G25]

Seems like most took Gibbos advice and bought all the TUf OC for £1900 on the other site as they are all sold out now although they do have a Strix at £2100 but personally still think that is to expensive considering there is a possibility that it performs no better than a basic card if you lose the silicone lottery

 

[Hostile_18]

Sorry yes - I was referring to the OC ver which is cheaper than RRP (but not in stock)

Yeah that's the one I ordered for next week at £1899 (the oc).

A similar thing happened somewhere else with the Windforce and Gaming OC been the same price at launch from one retailer (£200 cheaper than here).

 

[Hostile_18]

Seems like most took Gibbos advice and bought all the TUf OC for £1900 on the other site as they are all sold out now although they do have a Strix at £2100 but personally still think that is to expensive considering there is a possibility that it performs no better than a basic card if you lose the silicone lottery

I brought it up intiially. I want a Star also (and not a ban lol).

 

[Cooper]

You might want to check what it was prior to the brexit vote.

£1 was $1.50

..and what's the excuse you have for your beloved Euroland currency tanking in value against the $?

 

[VincentHanna]

£1 was 2.11 dollars under the last labour government

Yep, before the global financial crisis.

I remember as me and 4 friends went on a Californian road trip for 3 weeks, and everything seemed really cheap.

 

[arknor]

All major economies printed money, not just us. The euro has crashed too.

did putin force them to turn on the printers? also it wasn't just about printing money but what each country did with it.
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America handed out stimulus cheques, Boris handed our backhanders and contracts to his mates like the other tories who all became very wealthy

 

[Jay-G25]

I brought it up intiially. I want a Star also (and not a ban lol).

I cant give you a star so a thumbs up will have to do , a friend of mine is after a Tuf OC or FE card and at £1900 probably would have taken the bite but all gone now so wait goes on

 

[VincentHanna]

..and what's the excuse you have for your beloved Euroland currency tanking in value against the $?

I don't recall my post implying I "loved the euro". And the dollar is pretty strong at the moment, that's obvious.

Euro didn't "tank" like sterling did though after the Brexit vote. In 2018 it was actually €1 = $1.25

Anyway, getting a bit off topic.

 

[Hostile_18]

I cant give you a star so a thumbs up will have to do , a friend of mine is after a Tuf OC or FE card and at £1900 probably would have taken the bite but all gone now so wait goes on

I'd keep checking back. It's changed a lot since last night to this morning on all inventory. The OC had sold out initially this morning, then came back in stock again half hour later.

 

[Rup]

But the issue is lots of global currencies are weaking against the dollar,and the Euro was falling from last year too. The political instability in the last year hasn't helped the UK as trust has fallen in our finances(also we handled Brexit very poorly in terms of trade). The big issue is still that the US printed too much money last year and that takes time to have an effect,and their fixes are contributing to global inflation as their currency looks artificially strong. Whatever the war is doing is adding to the problems we have and many of these have existed since the subprime crash. The true effect of the war will be next year when Europe has no access to Russian energy,but again the UK should be far less affected. Norway owns 2/3 of the joint venture which runs its oil/gas fields. Most of the problems we have are down to poor and short sighted get rich policies.Then you have environmentalists who don't want Europe to exploit it's own limited natural resources either,so we end up being too excessively dependent on imports(which further makes costs higher) - they seem content to export all the pollution abroad(and a lot of jobs and economic security). The war shouldn't be affecting the UK as bad as Germany,Hungary who have no oil/gas and have been reliant for 50 years on Russia/USSR. The big issue next year,is whether there is enough gas and oil capacity in the rest of the world,especially for LNG. But since we destroyed Libya,and sanctioned Iran and Venzuela that is a huge amount of shipbourne oil and LNG out of the world markets. Ironically Russia benefited the most from all of the latter.

Anyway,perhaps all of this is beyond the remit of this thread,so I should probably stop now!

I would agree with most of what you've said.
I'll stop now too.

 

[Rup]

You might want to check what it was prior to the brexit vote.

£1 was $1.50

Well it recovered to approx $1.40 last year before the russian invasion.
What was the £ against the Euro during the euro crisis, about 1.40 too.
Major events move currencies.

 

[Rup]

did putin force them to turn on the printers? also it wasn't just about printing money but what each country did with it.
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America handed out stimulus cheques, Boris handed our backhanders and contracts to his mates like the other tories who all became very wealthy

Look up "pork barrel politics", plenty of $ went to the mates of US politicans too.