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I didn't say that 965 had cutting edge featuresWJA96 said:
- what I meant was that they would be good enough for 95% of people who don't need 680i/RD600/ & even 975X boards which are already considerably dearer & that they would undercut the broadly comparable 965s which are the current incumbents in that area too.imo £80 is a lot more sensible for most people than the £150-250 mobos that we've seen of late.
BUFF said:I didn't say that 965 had cutting edge features
imo £80 is a lot more sensible for most people than the £150-250 mobos that we've seen of late.
OK - I've just re-read you post and I see what you were saying now. You meant all other 'cutting edge' motherboards and not 965 boards. Sorry - my bad.
And I agree with your argument so much I've shelled out £68.20+£8.50 P&P on one of these supposed clock-monsters! I'm hoping it will arrive on Friday but we all know IT suppliers delivery timescales so it could be February before it actually turns up
Hmm, sounds almost too good to be true, especially given the price, features and overclocking ability. I've seen reviews where they've pushed the fsb to 480 stable, which would put my 6300 at @ 3.3Gz.
With a more mature bios this could really be a killer board
Just a shame that it's not available on OCUK yet.
With a more mature bios this could really be a killer board
Just a shame that it's not available on OCUK yet.
At the risk of upsetting anyone and everyone certain UK stores have been leading a charge up-market which makes sense from a revenue point of view. If your average system price is £1000 and you make 20% profit on it then you make £200 on every system you sell. If your average system price is £1500 and you make 20% profit on it then you make £300 per system. Hence more expensive components = more profit.
You may be thinking to yourself that cheaper products = more customers, but in the enthusiast market that's not really true. It's largely the same old people getting into a cycle of new equipment every so often.
So what have retailers done? They have trailed the new products and built up a head of demand then fulfuilled it at premium prices - Core2Duo was the big sales success of last summer. The unbelieveable shift in the price of Core2Duo motherboards is another (The highest price I can recall any Pentium 4 Motherboard seling for was about £150 and the best AMD S939 boards were a little less than that). Super-premium RAM is yet another factor pushing the average PC cost up enormously.
So most retailers don't want to sell you low-end kit if they can possibly help it because they make less money on it. Potential profit on a P5N-E SLi is £14 while the potential profit on a Stryker is £50. Which one would you rather sell 1000 units of?
You may be thinking to yourself that cheaper products = more customers, but in the enthusiast market that's not really true. It's largely the same old people getting into a cycle of new equipment every so often.
So what have retailers done? They have trailed the new products and built up a head of demand then fulfuilled it at premium prices - Core2Duo was the big sales success of last summer. The unbelieveable shift in the price of Core2Duo motherboards is another (The highest price I can recall any Pentium 4 Motherboard seling for was about £150 and the best AMD S939 boards were a little less than that). Super-premium RAM is yet another factor pushing the average PC cost up enormously.
So most retailers don't want to sell you low-end kit if they can possibly help it because they make less money on it. Potential profit on a P5N-E SLi is £14 while the potential profit on a Stryker is £50. Which one would you rather sell 1000 units of?
True words WJA96.
I mean just look at the prices of equipment in america and then compare it to UK prices, I was looking at getting a new screen and Dell had a screen for $270 which when it launched in the uk was £270+.
We are getting ripped of no matter what they say it can't cost that much to ship it and sell it in the UK compared to america.
I for one hopes that the P5N-E SLI will stay around the prices currently seen as that is more in line of the price in america. I can accept slightly higher prices but when its like the same price in £ as in $ something is wrong.
Also when is OCuk getting this board????
I mean just look at the prices of equipment in america and then compare it to UK prices, I was looking at getting a new screen and Dell had a screen for $270 which when it launched in the uk was £270+.
We are getting ripped of no matter what they say it can't cost that much to ship it and sell it in the UK compared to america.
I for one hopes that the P5N-E SLI will stay around the prices currently seen as that is more in line of the price in america. I can accept slightly higher prices but when its like the same price in £ as in $ something is wrong.
Also when is OCuk getting this board????
As a general rule of thumb (and I used to import and sell sensors from the US) when the exchange rate is above $1.80/£ then a consumer can import and pay duty on a component and still save money. BUT you have to find a friendly store in the US that will sell you the parts without local taxes if you are bringing it in yourself or, you need to get a really sharp deal on the shipping and handling costs if it is being delivered. I bought $90 (£47) worth of hard-to-obtain Lian Li spares (blower fans, HDD cages, stealthing plates) from a US e-tailer last week and the shipping was $38 (£20) for 2.5kg worth of weight. And it took 10 days to get here. And it had an invoice attached from the courier asking me to call them with my credit card and pay the £13 worth of customs & excise duty liable on my package. It actually worked out about £1.90 more than I could have bought the parts in the UK, but no-one in the UK had any parts.
I just worked out what you would actually pay if you bought the EVGA from NewEgg and it's actually no better than you could get it in the UK once you've factored all the taxes into it. But CPU's and RAM are a different story Light weight means cheap shipping and that makes all the difference.
I just worked out what you would actually pay if you bought the EVGA from NewEgg and it's actually no better than you could get it in the UK once you've factored all the taxes into it. But CPU's and RAM are a different story
Light weight means cheap shipping and that makes all the difference.& I bought it for £68 plus postage ...jamjar said:good point and yes i,ve see this board for £70 too
'twas delivered today.
Someone else posted that Gigabyte's 650i SLI is up somewhere for £115 which tbh is more where I expected to see 650i SLI pricing.
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=154838 which is as good as I ever had stable with a DS4!