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THE MAGNIFICENT 7: BIG DISCOUNTS ON GRAPHICS CARDS!!

Gibbo said:
Memory prices have double for the video cards, the cost of other components have also increased on some cards as well, so they cannot return to what they once were if they are now more expensive in the first place. The memory price increases is neither NVIDIA or AMD's fault, the prices have simply doubled and some graphics cards are fitted with a lot of memory which impacts the price quite harshly.
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Thanks. Just have to hope that mobile sales dry up and memory prices get the price drop that's been mooted.
 
x-st said:
Awesome deals there. But stupid question...

Why have GPU manufacturing costs increased, and depending on that, why wouldn't they return to normal?
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GlobalWafers (a company that makes silicone wafers) have said the cost for silicone wafers (used to make CPUs, GPUs & RAM etc) will go up 20% this year, they plan to increase production by seven percent but this still won't meet demand & won't be immediate
 
JessieD said:
GlobalWafers (a company that makes silicone wafers) have said the cost for silicone wafers (used to make CPUs, GPUs & RAM) will go up 20% this year, they plan to increase production by seven percent but this still won't meet demand & won't be immediate
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That is on top of the increases which have already happened. An RX 580 has 8 memory chips, they used to be $7 each, they are now $14 each and a further 20% to come is the above rumour. :(
 
Gibbo said:
That is on top of the increases which have already happened. An RX 580 has 8 memory chips, they used to be $7 each, they are now $14 each and a further 20% to come is the above rumour. :(
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Absolutely, memory prices were already inflated. I thought it was official the 20% apologies if not. I was told that they stated it outright
 
JessieD said:
Absolutely, memory prices were already inflated. I thought it was official the 20% apologies if not. I was told that they stated it outright
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Well I see OEM cost on some GPU's and lets just say since Q4 last year, the memory chips are now double in price. When the miners disappear things will get interesting, as the prices are higher now in the first place, so that is either the future or something will have to give or maybe try switching to a new memory technology or even find a technology that requires not so much memory.

Or as with most things, give it 6-12 months and it might pass and ease, its not the first time prices have rockets in this industry due to shortage or component cost increase, the difference is this time we have both combined.

Of course if GBP could hit around 1.75 or even 2:1 like good old days, it would neutralise most of this, come on BREXIT. :D
 
Gibbo said:
Well I see OEM cost on some GPU's and lets just say since Q4 last year, the memory chips are now double in price. When the miners disappear things will get interesting, as the prices are higher now in the first place, so that is either the future or something will have to give or maybe try switching to a new memory technology or even find a technology that requires not so much memory.

Or as with most things, give it 6-12 months and it might pass and ease, its not the first time prices have rockets in this industry due to shortage or component cost increase, the difference is this time we have both combined.

Of course if GBP could hit around 1.75 or even 2:1 like good old days, it would neutralise most of this, come on BREXIT. :D
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#GamersForBREXIT
In the meantime me & my geriatric GT 730 (in my lovely Ryzen system) don't game much anymore.
 
x-st said:
Awesome deals there. But stupid question...

Why have GPU manufacturing costs increased, and depending on that, why wouldn't they return to normal?
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On top of the BREXIT impact since launch pricing was announced, most components used in the manufacture have seen a massive increase in demand. GPU, VRAM, VRM, Capacitors, they're all in short supply, and as such the suppliers have increased pricing (this is filtering through to Motherboards now).

When you combine these increases we've seen hikes in our cost price of some cards in excess of three figures. We genuinely don't expect supply to match demand for quite a long time, almost certainly not during the expected lifespan of the current cards.
 
Fantastic deals Gibbo, Too late for me as I opted to go the Titan Xp Star Wars route as it was only 70 quid more than the 1080 Ti Strix I was eyeing up at the time, But these deals are amazeballs, This type of looking out for gamers is why I keep coming back to shop at OCUK for the last 11 years :)
 
warren_1979 said:
I was flipping through my password book saying "where is my bloody OCUK password FFS!" sweating bullets!
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Ah, so I wasn't the only one. :-) I knew it had been a while since I bought anything for my PC, but apparently my 7950 was my last purchase... in November 2012! I must owe OcUK an order just for forum bandwidth.

Thanks for the deal. I'll be back in, er... 2024, I guess. Who knows, by then I might need a replacement for my 2500k as well as a GPU. Which reminds me, is it too late to swap my motherboard with the useless Intel chipset. Never did get round to it. ;-) Can't believe that was 7 years ago. Guess if I've managed this long I'll manage a while longer. :->
 
This is and I repeat a deal soley for our gaming forum members, keep it to this thread and keep it low key, because I assure you if a miner gets these codes they will attempt to buy the stock
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Is this some Nvidia like PR stunt ? Hello, pretty much every member here is/was a miner.

Anyway, good to see some reasuring, Nvidia prices seem ok. But where is my RX 580 ?
Your post is actually somewhat heart-lightening, sounds like promise for future.
 
Thankfully have been a forum lurker since '07 and cannot tell you how relieved I am to finally be able to purchase a card at a sensible price for the wifes' new build that I foolishly started!

Did panic though trying to check out and not remembering my main site password!

Thanks OCUK staff for helping us gamers out!
 
desp said:
Is this some Nvidia like PR stunt ? Hello, pretty much every member here is/was a miner.

Anyway, good to see some reasuring, Nvidia prices seem ok. But where is my RX 580 ?
Your post is actually somewhat heart-lightening, sounds like promise for future.
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I think you are very wrong with stating every member here is or was a miner, most here are gamers and those who have mined did it with their gaming rigs. The amount of members here who have 30+ cards at home mining will be a select few which compared to the amount of miners is probably a single digit percentage. :)
 
Is there anyway I can order 2 cards?

I need a Graphics card myself but I've also got an order for a complete new gaming PC, so with GC's the price they are it's going to be somewhere close to £2k's worth qith the parts for the new PC..
 
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