Man of Honour
Why lower the 780 to £300 when it's obviously flying out of the door at £400?
-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
** NVIDIA PRICE DROP: GTX 780 & 770 MASSIVE PRICE DROP!! **
- Thread starter Gibbo
- Start date
Why lower the 780 to £300 when it's obviously flying out of the door at £400?
Associate
- Joined
- 2 Apr 2011
- Posts
- 1,205
Good prices.
Everyone keeps saying Nvidia don't need to be competitive on pricing due to superior market share, for Nvidia making such a bold move speaks volumes, they must be losing considerable market share to AMD.
Not at all, just they don't have the monopoly of the market anymore so reduced their prices to lead the market again, they've had 3 months of successful 780 sales in the bag anyway.
Soldato
Either that or they'll think they've done themselves over lol.
Soldato
Everyone keeps saying Nvidia don't need to be competitive on pricing due to superior market share, for Nvidia making such a bold move speaks volumes, they must be losing considerable market share to AMD.
Actually it's more due to the strength they have of being the only next gen vendor on the market for a number of months. It puts them in a better position to be able to drop prices. Whereas AMD can't realistically yet because they've only just launched.
Think AMD 7900 series but in reverse.
Caporegime
Its for me, i would not pay any more than what the 290 costs, its not worth any more and i wouldn't pay any more than £300 for either.
Soldato
Doubt it was selling like you think it was, Nvidia/Amd don't sell high end gpu's in large numbers-especially@£500+, it would be getting far outsold by the 79 series.
Nvidia don't drop prices unless they have to-obviously they did.
Soldato
A big price cut like this today is good/bad news for people prone to impulse buying
+1
So you're comparing sales of £250 cards to £500+ ones now?
nvidia cards sell well regardless of price.
Associate
Why are there basically no reference GTX 780s for sale?
I want dat cooler!
I want dat cooler!
samsung memory you say, this is something i havent heard before, time to do some researchand as for the cooler haha no selling outside the mm if i remember rules correctly lol still a fair way off!
As far as I could see only the DCU2 in the new stock has Samsung the others switched to Elpidia, you might not want the Asus if you need water blocks, you need to recheck all this obviously 
Soldato
Associate
double post - please delete
I think the only reference was the HIS card I think, might be mistaken, and it went out of stock pretty fast
Edit: Damn didn't see that Gainward had some reference coolers....now where are those glasses of mine.
inno3d. 2 in stock left
Soldato
Yes, £250 cards flying through the door in comparison to trickle sales of £500+ cards.
Obviously not in the case of the overpriced range that has saw dramatic price slashing-28% in the case of the Lightning.
Associate
I saw that but the clocks are so much lower, would this clock up to the same level as the evga / msi / asus reference 780's?