I find his videos useful because he covers things other channels don't cover. But as usual it's best to use different sources of information to get a better impression overall.
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The better late than never OcUK RTX4070 Super review thread!
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I find his videos useful because he covers things other channels don't cover. But as usual it's best to use different sources of information to get a better impression overall.
Yea but it's still only something like a £150 difference, if we're being generous it's not the £300 difference that we're seeing.
Caporegime
*checks purchase history of last decade*
7950 3GB bought for £180 in 2013
970 4GB bought for £260 in 2014 (+70% performance at +44% price, ok deal)
980 4GB bought for £460 in 2015 (+20% performance at +77% price, bad deal)
5700 8GB bought for £315 in 2020 (+40% performance at -32% price, good deal, just ran hot)
3060ti 8GB bought for £375 in 2021 (+30% performance at +19% price, ok deal, runs cool as a cucumber)
The 980 would have been over £500 adjusted for inflation in 2021 (ignoring that inflation doesn't impact the country of build, yadda yadda), and the 3060ti hits over double the performance at a much lower relative price point, that said, the 80 series is always poorly priced.
7950 3GB bought for £180 in 2013
970 4GB bought for £260 in 2014 (+70% performance at +44% price, ok deal)
980 4GB bought for £460 in 2015 (+20% performance at +77% price, bad deal)
5700 8GB bought for £315 in 2020 (+40% performance at -32% price, good deal, just ran hot)
3060ti 8GB bought for £375 in 2021 (+30% performance at +19% price, ok deal, runs cool as a cucumber)
The 980 would have been over £500 adjusted for inflation in 2021 (ignoring that inflation doesn't impact the country of build, yadda yadda), and the 3060ti hits over double the performance at a much lower relative price point, that said, the 80 series is always poorly priced.
He does put some thought into his videos, but as you say he can ramble a bit. That said he doesn't appear to be in the pocket of the industry just yet.
Soldato
Just look at the OCUK page for the 4070 Super, majority of models still have stock including the cheapest card! Would have been unheard of not that long ago.
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Soldato
Be interested to see numbers on how many FE cards nvidia actually had available at launch, that have now sold out. They may as well start releasing them as limited editions. Jump on AMD store for instance, and their reference cards are available.
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Caporegime
Its not bad, its a 3070Ti equivalent in price while 35% faster.
I still think the 7800XT is better value, sadly i think AMD know this which is why it didn't get a price drop
I still think the 7800XT is better value, sadly i think AMD know this which is why it didn't get a price drop
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Its not bad, its a 3070Ti equivalent in price while 35% faster.
I still think the 7800XT is better value, sadly i think AMD know this which is why it didn't get a price drop
The only issue is the RTX3070TI was a con too. Nvidia clearly didn't want to sell the RTX3070 at £470 so the Ampere V2 versions jacked up pricing.
Its quite clear Nvidia and AMD are having an unofficial agreement of sorts. Nvidia "dropped" the RTX4070 to $550,which still makes it more expensive than the RX7800XT RRP. Yet,that is already the street price of the RTX4070.
The only card AMD is dropping the price of its the RX7900XT because of the RTX4070TI Super.
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Just goes to show how many FE cards were available at launch, probably 10 by the looks of it
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lol no chance. I never get lucky in these things. I tried for best part of a year on multiple 3080 drops and never even got close to snagging one
This was the smoothest release so far. refreshed at 2pm, added to basket and paid with no issues and not having to enter a captcha 20 times xD
lol no chance. I never get lucky in these things. I tried for best part of a year on multiple 3080 drops and never even got close to snagging one
This was the smoothest release so far. refreshed at 2pm, added to basket and paid with no issues and not having to enter a captcha 20 times xD
guess i was lucky during the drought, picked up quite a few cards at actual retail non scalped prices. I had a 4070 super in the basket yesterday too, it was easy enough to get if you actually wanted one.
Edit: Hated the captcha thing too!
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Soldato
They are limiting supply to sell 4070 stock, they have the 4070 FE reduced to £529. Will be the same with other supers, not good supply unit they have shifted the 4070 ti and 4080.
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They'll never shift enough 4070's without dropping the price below 500, people will rather wait and hold out for a super card and pay the extra. It's literally a £50 difference for an extra 15-20% performance.
Caporegime
Yeah i wouldn't be surprised if they have some sort of backroom deal going on.... they don't want their mid level cards to be any cheaper and all it takes to do that is for one of them to make a move, even if they never spoke about it there seems to be an unspoken understanding between them.
I was really hoping to see the 7800XT cost more like £450 and the 7700XT more like £400, that's not going to happen...
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Caporegime
There is this for £420, but despite my being a fan of Gigabyte motherboards i'm not a fan of their GPU's, they are the noisiest of the more premium cards due to those fans being the same design as the ones i had on my GTX 970, while that was ok for the time these days they don't really cut it, the fans on my 2020 MSI card are very much quieter.
The PCIe retention tab is also flimsy, Northwest Repair said it looks deliberate to him, it looks like quite a lot of the material has been cut-out to make it weak with a bunch of traces running through that tab area, a couple of years of heat cycling and the weight of the GPU hanging off the PCIe causes the PCB to crack, he's had no end of Gigabyte cards for repair all with cracked PCB's around the tab.
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The PCIe retention tab is also flimsy, Northwest Repair said it looks deliberate to him, it looks like quite a lot of the material has been cut-out to make it weak with a bunch of traces running through that tab area, a couple of years of heat cycling and the weight of the GPU hanging off the PCIe causes the PCB to crack, he's had no end of Gigabyte cards for repair all with cracked PCB's around the tab.
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that just sums up the demand though, back at the 3080 release OCUK sold then oversold 10000 cards on launch day yet only had 200 4070S in stock and they are all pretty much still in stock including the MSRP ones so it shows people are just not interested.lol no chance. I never get lucky in these things. I tried for best part of a year on multiple 3080 drops and never even got close to snagging one
This was the smoothest release so far. refreshed at 2pm, added to basket and paid with no issues and not having to enter a captcha 20 times xD
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Soldato
He even mentions OCUK at around 9:30. He probably didn't get the memo from Gibbo which says OCUK just so happens to have loads of stock compared to everyone else and the 4070 Super is flying out the door and the warehouse can barely keep up with the demand.
Caporegime
Here...
PS: Youtube are getting a bit silly with their war on Adblockers, even in Chrome now they are blackscreen delaying the video if you have an Adblocker installed, yes this is actual code Youtube are injecting in to the browser.
They are becoming sociopathic narcissist's with this, i have youtube on my TV, i can't run an adblocker on it, the adverts on Youtube make the content unwatchable, its at least 30 seconds, sometime as much as 90 seconds every few minutes, literally no more than every 5 minutes a minute of adverts, you try to watch a long form video of one or two hours with advert interruption's every few minutes, its enough to drive the most mellow people nuts, and again it's deliberate because what they want is for you to pay an extortionate, IMO, £15 per month to make it stop.
The interruptive frequency of ads on Youtube is why people run adblockers, if it was more reasonable no one would care and bother.
And once they have you all agreeing to pay for Youtube then they will have you paying with adverts.
Someone will probably find a way of blocking these scripts, on none Chrome browsers, and i'm quite happy to dump Chrome.
PS: Youtube are getting a bit silly with their war on Adblockers, even in Chrome now they are blackscreen delaying the video if you have an Adblocker installed, yes this is actual code Youtube are injecting in to the browser.
They are becoming sociopathic narcissist's with this, i have youtube on my TV, i can't run an adblocker on it, the adverts on Youtube make the content unwatchable, its at least 30 seconds, sometime as much as 90 seconds every few minutes, literally no more than every 5 minutes a minute of adverts, you try to watch a long form video of one or two hours with advert interruption's every few minutes, its enough to drive the most mellow people nuts, and again it's deliberate because what they want is for you to pay an extortionate, IMO, £15 per month to make it stop.
The interruptive frequency of ads on Youtube is why people run adblockers, if it was more reasonable no one would care and bother.
And once they have you all agreeing to pay for Youtube then they will have you paying with adverts.
Someone will probably find a way of blocking these scripts, on none Chrome browsers, and i'm quite happy to dump Chrome.
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Soldato
I've checked competitor sites and they still have stock as well, including the cheapest one.