Well im getting a AIB one, watercooled. Ive had my two watercooled 290x long enough. They cost me as a pair £550 second hand so £600 on a faster replacement seems like a fair price to me especially since they would have cost me £1100 if i had bought them new
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Well im getting a AIB one, watercooled. Ive had my two watercooled 290x long enough. They cost me as a pair £550 second hand so £600 on a faster replacement seems like a fair price to me especially since they would have cost me £1100 if i had bought them new
Its not such a great analogy though - you could easily have the HD800 for 10 years and still get a reasonable resale value after that time.
My Musical Fidelity XA200R cost me £500 and I got around £350 for it a decade later.
The GTX1080 will look old hat in a year or so and the resale value will have crashed by then.
True I didn't want to go for cars
The meaning was there though.
The best costs more than, things that perform almost as well.I made the comparison with TVs and got shot down
I only paid £1150 for my oled TV which I regard as decent value for money.
The TV market has lots of players and competition though...
Point is though you could have bought a decent led one for £700 which would have given you 90% of the performance...............
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Point is though you could have bought a decent led one for £700 which would have given you 90% of the performance...............
I didn't want an led TV though, already had one of those
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Which is the reason why making excuses for the increasing level pricing is not useful as it it limits the performance jumps we see underneath.
Things like dSLRs have massively dropped in price over the last decade and a number have large 35MM frame sensors.
A D610 in todays money is cheaper than a D70 and has a much bigger sensor chip.
The GTX1080 has 33% more shaders than the GTX1070 and 25% more bandwidth,so with the GTX1080 being priced so high,how much faster will it be than a GTX980TI??
Will it match it??
Even at GTX980TI level,that makes it barely 20% faster than an R9 390X or GTX980:
https://tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080/images/perfrel_2560_1440.png
Things like Hi-fi and camera lenses cost a lot but hold their value far more and can be used for longer anyway. CPUs hold their value.
Graphics cards are some of the worst depreciating products ever made.
Plus,you can get cheaper GTX980TI cards which are not massively slower than the GTX1080 Founders Edition:
https://tpucdn.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_980_Ti_XtremeGaming/images/perfrel_2560_1440.png
I really,really hope the GTX1080 AIB cards start at £500.
Otherwise people are getting WORSE price/performance with a GTX1080.
The GTX680 was better price/performance than a GTX580.
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when is the full NDA up on custom board GTX 1080s? I'm guessing computex, I'm really looking forward to what EVGA can do with their hybrid card (y)
Exactly, go for it. The new card will have good resale value if you decide to upgrade in the future. And you can sell the 290's.
But each new card should be faster than the last
Doesn't mean they should whack an extra £100 on the price each time they release one
At this rate it won't be long before you're looking at £1000 for the latest non ti vanilla nvidia card! And you're ok with this?
It's people like you who are allowing them to do this!
Do you get it?
I don't think you get it. Read up on inflation and get back here with an intelligent response before you continue to embarrass yourself.
Of course GPUs will hit £1000 at some point, just like you used to be able to buy a house for £50 now it costs you £500,000.
The cost to price a GPU is going up every generation in real terms but the price they are selling at is completely static. There has been no significant change in GPU prices in 20 years.
I didn't want an led TV though, already had one of those
which is kinda the point about this buying totl.....
People don't want 980 performance they want 1080 performance and they are prepared to pay more for it.
People conveniently forget that the 8800 Ultra cost well over $800 on launch and that card is now 9 years old!
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I will buy a 1080 in a month or so if I can get one that is
compared to what I've spent on telescopes it's a bargain lol
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True I didn't want to go for cars
The meaning was there though.
I get your point though.
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Yes, but I keep my TVs 5/6 years and generally pay around the same price for a new one as the previous one.
Top end 32 inch CRT was £1200, 5 years later that was replaced with a 37 inch 720p TV which cost £1300, then a top end 1080p 46 inch for £1300 and now my current 55 inch oled for £1150.
If you look at the cost of video cards in that time....
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Inflation adjusted prices of top end GPUs
Just proves that we need AMD to keep prices down.
Polaris for 299$ with GTX 980 level of performance would be amazing.+1
Idiots are killing it softly with their complete backing imo.
Don't get me wrong, if your buying it, buy it but don't insult our intelligence with **** excuses.
Most likely yes.
and people need to stop being so caught up in this founders reference edition stuff as well. We all know that is a stupid.
I will be reserving judgement on the price/performance until we get the custom cards/ custom overclocked boards.
Seems silly comparing a top of the range custom 980Ti to a reference 1080 with a premium 100$ just for Nvidia's titan cooler. Do we base the 970's price and performance on the stupid one OCUK sell with the Titan cooler for £350? No.
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+1
Idiots are killing it softly with their complete backing imo.
Don't get me wrong, if your buying it, buy it but don't insult our intelligence with **** excuses.
Spot on