** NVIDIA PRICE DROP: GTX 780 & 770 MASSIVE PRICE DROP!! **

[RavenXXX2]

Don't you think that they would have reduced the price anyway as they are about to release the 780Ti?

By $150 lol, they were forced in to it by the 290x and the impending 290. The ti is a kneejerk reaction by nvidia to the 290x, I'm betting it's simply a rebranded titan with higher clocks.

If Nvidia could keep milking people £500+ for a 780 they would.

 

[Suarez7]

Nope. Nvidia fanbois were still buying the cards at stupid prices.

Oh dear

 

[whyscotty]

AMD pricing lower initially has to be of some significance to the cuts surely. The 780Ti would just be priced to what suits best for NVIDIA either way.

I not trying to say AMD pricing didn't help,
but with the 780Ti being released - prices were bound to be lowered.

Nope. Nvidia fanbois were still buying the cards at stupid prices. Only competition has forced them to lower prices. AMD left it too long but the 290 could force another drop....

Grow up - using stupid names just gets peoples backs up

 

[Meaker]

If it were not for AMD there would not BE a 780Ti

Competition is good and anyone who is currently arguing over all this is just simply dumb, I only wish there was another competitor and AMD was competing with intel properly.

 

[Suarez7]

If it were not for AMD there would not BE a 780Ti

There would be, a Titan Ultra or whatever has been touted for months and the 780ti is basically that looking at supposed specs.

 

[RanxZy]

I not trying to say AMD pricing didn't help,
but with the 780Ti being released - prices were bound to be lowered.

Every little helps with a NVIDIA price cut!
End of the day well done to AMD for for producing a great performing card to even give NVIDIA a reason to release the 780Ti and give a catalyst to these cuts.

 

[RavenXXX2]

There would be, a Titan Ultra or whatever has been touted for months and the 780ti is basically that looking at supposed specs.

And what would be the point in a card supposedly 5% faster than a titan? why bother? the ti exists because of the 290x, it's simply to show nvidia has the outright fastest GPU.

 

[whyscotty]

Every little helps with a NVIDIA price cut!
End of the day well done to AMD for for producing a great performing card to even give NVIDIA a reason to release the 780Ti and give a catalyst to these cuts.

Couldn't agree more

 

[mrozik]

the question is... is it still worth buying R9 290X when Nvidia 780's are so cheap now?

 

[rolypolyman]

Well I don't upgrade graphics cards for 10-20% performance increases which is all we have been getting for the past two years from Amd\Nvidia. I had to go xfire 7950 to get a large performance increase for decent money. Hell I'm seeing posts where 670sli owners are actually considering single 780's instead, madness. Nice to see the Nvidia price drops at last, but don't be fooled guys this has only come about because of the price\performance of the 290X\290 and not because Nvidia loves ya.

 

[RanxZy]

There would be, a Titan Ultra or whatever has been touted for months and the 780ti is basically that looking at supposed specs.

And if not for AMD what price would this Titan Ultra be LOL trollface.

 

[LtMatt]

End of the day well done to AMD for for producing a great performing card to even give NVIDIA a reason to release the 780Ti and give a catalyst to these cuts.

I hope that pun was intentional.

 

[rolypolyman]

I hope that pun was intentional.

 

[RanxZy]

I hope that pun was intentional.

 

[Freddie1980]

Can't be much longer until the Titan's lofty price tag a dramatic tumble.

 

[RanxZy]

Titan looks EOL to me pretty soon there is no real demand for it with the cards cards available now. Would be nice to see a clearance sale of them

 

[Suarez7]

Yeah I think we'll see the gentle giant disappear, it would have been given a price drop me thinks if it was hanging around.

 

[Kei]

I've used Radeon cards since the fall of 3Dfx, but this price drop may well have swayed me. I reckon an MSI Gaming edition plus an EK titan block should be a huge improvement on my 6970. (even with the large drag factor of my phenom II)

Will the release of the ordinary 290 spark a further small drop in price on the 780? (if it is sub £350 with performance akin to gibbo's tests)

 

[Suarez7]

Well some 780's with the sale of games work out about £350, can't see nvidia dropping prices further.

 

[Ian Evey]

So I was tempted to buy a £95 power supply and a 290x and one of those heatsinks for it as water cooling is not my cup of tea.

But now having thought it over i see that the 780 has dropped in price.

So as of right now i can get a 780 gigabyte phantom £399 or msi lightning £419 or buy a £515 290x as there is no stock of any of the £429 ones and in doing this i save another £95 on the PSU and £40 on the cooler as i would not have risked a 290x on my 650w OCZ psu.

A visit to OC on saturday for me i think to get myself a 780.

So glad i had doubts now. Unless amd come back with stock of thier new card, with a new cooler, for £400 ? I doubt it.