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** The Official Nvidia GeForce 'Pascal' Thread - for general gossip and discussions **

So, how many people pre-ordered? :p

If you did not, do you plan to when they eventually make a cheap looking plastic version for £550?

Anyone feel insulted enough by the price that they will consider waiting for AMD Polaris or Vega?

I hope I am wrong, but I think people will get annoyed with nvidia now like they did with the 970 vram fiasco, but then eventually buy one anyway, like the ones who went and got a 980 after they got/felt bummed.
 
^^ Nothing particularly strange about this launch - far from the first where the reviews are out before the cards hit retail and not that long from announcement to the supposed date they are available to buy.
 
smogsy said:
Soon as their available expect a slash in price by £50/100 within 2 weeks same as my monitor lost 200 in 2 weeks

Pre-orders are always more expensive for anything including most games
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Not sure that's the case with everything? I'm fairly sure OCuk have done early bird prices before warning about prices rising in the coming week? Could be wrong...
 
What I find more incredible than the prices that have been set is the people who actually buy at those prices. Unless you're sitting there with no GPU, it wouldn't hurt to hold off for two, maybe 4 weeks in which case retailers would have to lower prices.
 
.Trooper. said:
What I find more incredible than the prices that have been set is the people who actually buy at those prices. Unless you're sitting there with no GPU, it wouldn't hurt to hold off for two, maybe 4 weeks in which case retailers would have to lower prices.
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Indeed.

Will be interesting to see how people react to the 1070 Milk'm edition. Will they wait for prices to normalise or pay the extra as the total is a lower price.

smilertoo said:
Sadly gamers have shown time and time again they will bend over and take whatevers given to them.
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With a smile. Lol
 
ICDP said:
http://i.imgur.com/biL5fjR.png

The above does not bode well for anyone who plans to put their FE 1080 inside an actual case rather than an open test bench. ;)

When ComputerBase installed their 1080 in a case they found that the clocks are seriously impacted by temperature. They managed to reduce the throttling by raising the power target to 20% and the temperature target to 92C.

Obviously this increases power usage and decreases max OC potential.
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Wait...when they raised the power target and temp target it was 85 C, and the the power consumption went up by 40W??
The custom cards might solve the heat and power issue, but then they will consume 250W (the factory OC ones)...and then where is the OC, the 2.5GHz some people imagine? What about the 1080ti? How much will that eat?
 
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you do realize that by buying after market 1080s you're playing right into NVIDIA's game of making the lesser of two evil's more attractive?
 
i think 2.5ghz is very optimistic
and it looks like raising the clocks dont help that much anyway
watch the nexus review for that, about 2% performance increase going above 2000mhz
 
lol just seen the prices on the page and although i can afford i cant find any reason to make me wanna spend 635+ for this one.And they wonder why the pc market is slowly going down for the past 6-7 years.I'll pass.
 
sam77 said:
you do realize that by buying after market 1080s you're playing right into NVIDIA's game of making the lesser of two evil's more attractive?
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lol very true. Same thing governments do when they want to pass new legislation. Introduce a ludicrous proposal that they know everyone will hate then retract it and revise it to something bad but not as terrible, so people are more likely to accept it.. When in fact the revision was what they were aiming for from the start.
 
Mei said:
i think 2.5ghz is very optimistic
and it looks like raising the clocks dont help that much anyway
watch the nexus review for that, about 2% performance increase going above 2000mhz
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Ofc it is, the 2,1GHz is already a big OC...i think poeple who hopes for much higher numbers will be disappointed.
Also it seems the power efficiency is not that big deal as it was first advertised. Based on this test it pulls 220W just to hold around the factory boost clock
 
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