PowerColor X1800 XT - £235 until Feb 6 only! Don't miss out!!

Gibbo · 5 Feb 2006 at 16:45

Hi there

As per the thread title, if your considering an X1800 XT on offer at OcUK you only have until tomorrow to make your mind up.

As at the end of tomorrow the cards will either be sold out or will increast in price to approx £300 +VAT.

The clock is ticking............

TaKeN · 5 Feb 2006 at 16:59

When are the X1900's Coming down in price ?

These cards are a bargain though, my powercolour one is ace, running every game i play maxed out, but i dont play F.E.A.R Fortunately

Gibbo · 5 Feb 2006 at 17:18

TaKeN said:
When are the X1900's Coming down in price ?

These cards are a bargain though, my powercolour one is ace, running every game i play maxed out, but i dont play F.E.A.R Fortunately

The X1900's won't be coming down, in fact ATI are not too happy about how cheap they are as Etailors were supposed to be selling them much higher....

Lord-Jaffa · 5 Feb 2006 at 17:31

Drop the master cards down to this price also and ill buy one

LoadsaMoney · 5 Feb 2006 at 17:42

Does that mean your going to have to put the x1900's up then.

Goksly · 5 Feb 2006 at 17:44

Gibbo said:
The X1900's won't be coming down, in fact ATI are not too happy about how cheap they are as Etailors were supposed to be selling them much higher....

How does that work? Surely they sell them to you guys at a price... and if you want to sell them for 1p then its up to you - but also ** loss?
Or have i missed something

Cyber-Mav · 5 Feb 2006 at 17:56

Goksly said:
How does that work? Surely they sell them to you guys at a price... and if you want to sell them for 1p then its up to you - but also ** loss?
Or have i missed something

its a marketing tactic gibbo has used.

its like me selling something to you then also saying that someone else is interested in the item im selling. that will put pressure on you and i could have no other people interested in the item im selling.

sly tactics.

LoadsaMoney · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:06

Cyber-Mav said:
its a marketing tactic gibbo has used.

its like me selling something to you then also saying that someone else is interested in the item im selling. that will put pressure on you and i could have no other people interested in the item im selling.

sly tactics.

Haha so it is, i missed that one, him saying that will get more orders in.

TaKeN · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:37

i woulda thought, at the end of the day.. you pay 50 quid for a graphics card direct from the manufacturer, they dont care if you sell it for 200

Gibbo · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:47

Cyber-Mav said:
its a marketing tactic gibbo has used.

its like me selling something to you then also saying that someone else is interested in the item im selling. that will put pressure on you and i could have no other people interested in the item im selling.

sly tactics.

There is nothing sly about it at all.......

X1800's are been cleared out and not produced any longer, this means they won't be around much longer. They are going cheap and way below how much they cost the ATI partners to originally purchase and as such are been sold to Etailors at a loss and then the Etailors add a small margin and quickly clear them out for the ATI partners in essence giving customers a good buy but its only a short term thing.

The X1900's are currently been sold well under ATI's guidance pricing by nearly all Etailors, everone is still making good margin but ATI marketed the X1900 to compete with the 7800 GTX 512MB but because everyone is selling X1900's so cheap ATI are annoyed by the fact that what is a superior card has been de-valued and therefor normal customer who don't have much of a clue will look at GTX 512MB at £450 - £500 +VAT and automatically think its better than X1900 which is £300 +VAT where in reality the X1900 is superior and a far better buy.

So this makes ATI look the underdog or its how ATI marketing people see such things as the X1900's were supposed to have been sold for a lot more. Whether ATI will increase cost pricing to its partners/etailors to force their pricing up is unknown but a price drop is very unlikely.

OcUK is selling X1900 XT's for £309 +VAT and X1900 XT-X's for £339 +VAT which for a card that beats the £500 +VAT 7800 GTX is an exceptional price for a lot of card.

X1800's are a great buy and my advice is buy them, whether it be from OcUK or elsewhere because I doubt they will be around for much longer and the offer at OcUK stops end of tomorrow.

chaparral · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:48

£300 plus VAT for an xt1800xt..Is it april the 1st tomorrow.....I got see this..

It's only £309 plus VAT for the xt1900xt..

n30_mkii · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:54

All seems a little bit odd. These offers dont seem that great. There are other etailers doing offers just as good if not better. Seems like a push from OCUK to try and clear some stock.

badbob · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:01

n30_mkii, cheapest I've seen a 512MB 1800 XT card is £249 from another retailer. Where have you seen it cheaper?

n30_mkii · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:04

The forums do not allow me to post any links or give you a competitors name Sorry. Is that £249 incl VAT?

badbob · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:06

No plus vat, so still little bit more expensive than OC. Name the shop in rhyme, that'll get around the filters and I should understand who. :0)

AnastieByte · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:06

So if your monitor that you dont intend to change has a native res of 1280x1024 would you go for x1900xt or x1800xt?

Claw · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:07

badbob said:
n30_mkii, cheapest I've seen a 512MB 1800 XT card is £249 from another retailer. Where have you seen it cheaper?

And nobody should answer that question, unless they want a holiday for a few days.

n30_mkii · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:07

An X1800 would do the job, unless you can afford the 1900

n30_mkii · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:09

Claw lmao! How very true!

Gibbo · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:19

n30_mkii said:
All seems a little bit odd. These offers dont seem that great. There are other etailers doing offers just as good if not better. Seems like a push from OCUK to try and clear some stock.

We have no needs to clear stock.

Irrelevant of stock the price goes back up tomorrow as what we have left over shall be used in system builds.

OcUK is a bit more of a community, clearly one your not used too and OcUK always pushes to give that little bit extra for the customer, in all fairness OcUK was the first to offer X1800's so cheap.

All I am doing is saying if your thinking of getting an X1800 grab one whilst you still can, yes I'd like you to buy it from OcUK but at the end of the day these are a great deal so don't hang around waiting because other Etailors will no doubt remove them from offer very soon too or run out.......