** NVIDIA GTX 1080 FOUNDERS EDITION: WANNA PRE-ORDER?

MT Mods said:
Lol @ £620+ for something you can buy in the US for $599 (£415)
Sorry guys, but alike my second Strix 980Ti, i'll have a family member buy my 1080 for me and send me it.
Oh and yes you can avoid customs with happy birthday wrapping :P
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Shock as dodging VAT and duties makes things cheaper.
 
980 Ti was released at $649 which in turn was 529 in the UK
& that was the big chip..

think I might hold on for the non founders, at $599 it should be £499-520
 
yoyo59 said:
980 Ti was released at $649 which in turn was 529 in the UK
& that was the big chip..

think I might hold on for the non founders, at $599 it should be £499-520
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Personally I don't see that being below £560. I'm going to stump up and grab a 1080 either Zotac with 5yr or EVGA
 
There was no way this was going to come in at the same or lower price than the 980 Ti whilst there is still stock of that in the market. Wait for 980 Ti stock to clear and non -reference cards to ship. I full expected this to launch at £600+ to be honest.
 
Gibbo said:
One flaw, pound to dollar rate might be 1.45, but no bank, cc or paypal will give you that rate. Probably around 1.40 and if you do not believe me go to buy something from Ebay or any store in USD and select paypal for payment and it will show you the rate, I got 1.39 yesterday from Paypal when buying some items from USA.

Also cc companies take 1-2% for their cut, Amazon and Paypal an even larger cut, it all adds up, it is why some companies add surcharges for credit cards and don't offer Amazon or Paypal checkouts as their cut is too big.
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That's not entirely true. If you use a credit card such as a Post Office Platinum Card or a Halifax Clarity Card you use the mastercard exchange rate that mirrors the official exchange rate and you don't get fleeced in the exchange of currency at all.

For example, yesterday's exchange rate for users of these cards was 1.458300 when buying in US Dollars.

I'd certainly recommend one for anyone who travels abroad or likes to buy things from overseas as it can save you a lot of money if you purchase or travel regularly
 
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Gibbo said:
One flaw, pound to dollar rate might be 1.45, but no bank, cc or paypal will give you that rate. Probably around 1.40 and if you do not believe me go to buy something from Ebay or any store in USD and select paypal for payment and it will show you the rate, I got 1.39 yesterday from Paypal when buying some items from USA.

Also cc companies take 1-2% for their cut, Amazon and Paypal an even larger cut, it all adds up, it is why some companies add surcharges for credit cards and don't offer Amazon or Paypal checkouts as their cut is too big.
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Spudgun said:
That's not entirely true. If you use a credit card such as a Post Office Platinum Card or a Halifax Clarity Card you use the mastercard exchange rate that mirrors the official exchange rate and you don't get fleeced in the exchange of currency at all.

For example, yesterday's exchange rate for users of these cards was 1.458300 when buying in US Dollars.

I'd certainly recommend one for anyone who travels abroad or likes to buy things from overseas as it can save you a lot of money if you purchase or travel regularly
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Exactly... that is Paypal... they take their fee and they offer a really poor exchange rate.

For many years while over here... I get the market rate and usually a £1-3 fee for using my debit card over here... credit cards have worse fees as they are usually percentage based.

For supplier orders... you will be paying by bank transfer, not credit or debit card anyway... I bought a couple of relatively large stock orders from the states over the last week and got 1.4533 actual rate including £12 fees...

If I pay by online banking with Barclays... I also get the market rate but they charge a £30-45 fee depending on if it's going to China or USA.
 
Serious question, not me trying to be critical of people's purchasing choices: who needs a 1080 right now? I'm presuming people running 4k and vr are the target market? I can't see why anyone running a 980ti on 1080p or 1440p actually needs the new card, and unless you're absolutely desperate for new things I think you'd be mad to pay these prices when everyone knows they'll come down in a few months.
 
nicktay2605 said:
Serious question, not me trying to be critical of people's purchasing choices: who needs a 1080 right now? I'm presuming people running 4k and vr are the target market? I can't see why anyone running a 980ti on 1080p or 1440p actually needs the new card, and unless you're absolutely desperate for new things I think you'd be mad to pay these prices when everyone knows they'll come down in a few months.
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People without a 980ti? I have a titan and was looking forward to the 1080 as it's about twice the performance. However it's not £620 of performance.
 
nicktay2605 said:
Serious question, not me trying to be critical of people's purchasing choices: who needs a 1080 right now? I'm presuming people running 4k and vr are the target market? I can't see why anyone running a 980ti on 1080p or 1440p actually needs the new card, and unless you're absolutely desperate for new things I think you'd be mad to pay these prices when everyone knows they'll come down in a few months.
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have a 5yr old dell xps with a gt545. closing my eyes and ears and getting a 1080 even with the price.
 
nicktay2605 said:
Serious question, not me trying to be critical of people's purchasing choices: who needs a 1080 right now? I'm presuming people running 4k and vr are the target market? I can't see why anyone running a 980ti on 1080p or 1440p actually needs the new card, and unless you're absolutely desperate for new things I think you'd be mad to pay these prices when everyone knows they'll come down in a few months.
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I'm running a 1440p 144Hz monitor, and have a 780GTX, I need an upgrade badly because I can't run a single new game on medium at a decent frame rate anymore. But I'm not paying £620 for one!
 
Caracus2k said:
That's its the fastest single GPU on the market so calling it mid range regardless of price is stupid? The obsession that some people have here and on the CPU thread with die size* is amazing! If its faster its faster it doesn't matter what size the die is!

*for die size also read bus width - if its faster with a 256bit vs 384/512 bit bus its still faster!
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Performance doesn't state that it's high end.

It's the price, and since we know that this isn't the full Pascal chip in the Titan price bracket, then it's not high end.
 
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