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RX VEGA AIB Cards Information Needed?
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Soldato
But those people aren't looking to buy now. The point was it's hard to justify buying a Vega 64/56 NOW over a 1080 or whatever.
Even if they did, they can't buy another one at launch price just because they got the first one at launch price.
Caporegime
Well. It kind of is.
Hard isn't really the word I would use, due to the supply/demand issues the Vega cards are currently running ~£150 or more than the equivalent Nvidia card, that's just mental, it's normally the other way round. I can't see anyone buying at these prices apart from miners, it's £200 above launch/retail lol.
Soldato
Hmmm wow someone actually bought 1 for £749.99 and now OCUK probably has the very last Vega 64 reference card ever left.
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Early bird catches the worm and the AIO was re-purposed from my R9 290 so it cost me nothing but time.
I do agree though that they are too expensive right now for the performance. Whether that will change with drivers and game take up of supported features is yet to be determined. I will say though that AMD support their products far better for far longer so with AMD you measure bang for buck over a 5yr period unless you must keep up with the Jones's, which isn't me.
I'll keep this card for another 4 or 5yrs depending on what Navi turns out like.
Sadly even at that price it's still a good option for mining so unlikely we will see the insanity subside soon
ah not too bad then.
Caporegime
The Nitro+ 64s are in stock, Go! Go! Go! 
Soldato
I noticed Sapphire Vega 56 cards are in stock.
Caporegime
800 pound?
What the actual.
Jesus christ
What the actual.
Jesus christ
Caporegime
Yeah shocking that, when i saw them in stock an hr ago, they were still £750.
Caporegime
Vega has to be one of the worst GPU releases for the gamers.
It's the AMD equivalent of an EVGA Kingpin card, massive price in order to get features/specs 99.99% of buyers don't care about.
Well, at release it was excellent for gamers, it's after release things have turned nightmarish XD
Be interesting to know if the prices of the AIB Vegas are due to AMD or AIBs or retailers profiteering on Vegas mining demand.
Sure but apart from a slightly elevated and seemingly mainly unreachable boost clock it doesn't seem to be offering anything else that other AIB's aren't.
On the flip side I'm astonished Asus's ROG Strix version is only a tenner more than the others, usually they are the ones to gouge. Hope we see some severe price drops by spring.
In fairness you can say the exact same about the Kingpin cards if you also factor out the extra stuff for the extreme/LN2 overclockers
