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Poll: The Vega Review Thread.
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I think you just arguing for the sake of arguing, which is what defensive people usually do.
I dont even know what message you trying to put across.
AMD are stonewalling the media on requests for the RRP.
I said I believe the RRP to be 599usd which you seemed to agree with yet disagreed with me an hour earlier.
A limited offer for a few hundred cards isnt relevant, just a trick so they can claim they sold cards for that price. Certainly not a means to justify misleading reviews pitting vega cards against nvidia cards that are much cheaper.
Paul is taking a beating in his comments section and rightly so, is his skin thick enough to ignore it, as it seems the reviewers dont want to upset AMD too much.
You claim you trying to just look at facts, but I have analysed your last 20 or so posts on AMD rx vega and they all arguing with negative comments on the card with various people, that doesnt paint a neutral picture to me.
I can see the way its going and I dont like it from an integrity point of view.
The reviewers are saying they are not considering whats going on as a long term trend, and they wont until AMD confirm the higher RRP.
In turn AMD wont confirm the higher RRP, its likely been deemed too damaging for the brand vs simply not choosing to comment, this goes full circle back to the reviewers.
If I am right it will mean original reviews will stay online, consumers will be misled.
Caporegime
Love that EU law being disregarded
Wow. that's almost worse than the truth. That says "yeah, we screwed you over, but we're not going to admit it, so every couple of weeks we'll send out a handful of GPUs to sell at the MSRP, but the vast majority of the available stock will only be available at a higher price, just like now"
Funny thing is they have others listed, some with 24 months and others with 36 months, i'm guessing it might be an error possibly.
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I understand what you're saying and you're right they are GCN at there core but the fact that they're starting off with seperate drivers and even after so long a wait they're still not ready suggests that there's some major differences to GCN as we've known it.
Looks like some serious backtracking there
How much of the worldwide graphics card consumer market will have read gibbo's post?
If you think a few retailers been told behind closed doors whats happening makes it all ok, then I am lost for words. end of post.
Most people who do any kind of research rely on reviewers.
Gibbo of course has been pretty clever, he let us all know what was going on and at the same time massively raised the profile for his company with it been mentioned in american based press.
If it wasnt for gibbo's comment then most people would likely be assuming RRP is 499usd and its all retailer price gouging.
Looks like some serious backtracking there
I will admit I didnt see that coming
That was probably the best statement to make of course it "may" cost them money with the lower pricing.
I was expecting them to do the second best thing which was to refuse comment.
Note my last few posts is before I read this statement, so hotwired take that into account when you reply please.
Looks like some serious backtracking there
Looks like the £450 vega 64 will be on sale again, great news.
I think that was only viable option under the circumstances.I will admit I didnt see that coming
That was probably the best statement to make of course it "may" cost them money with the lower pricing.
I was expecting them to do the second best thing which was to refuse comment.
Caporegime
Lot of returned cards off the back of that statement then?
I don't see how that works for them or the retailers now, they know they sell for higher pricing than their original expectations.
I don't see how that works for them or the retailers now, they know they sell for higher pricing than their original expectations.
In very limited numbers like last time. So expect another 15 minute surge then sold out. They're only doing this to try and pretend that the $499 price is still valid.
Here's my sweet little baby £450 well spenY
Sapphire tech RX Radeon 64
As rock x99
64gb ram
Crucial 1tb ssd
Intel 5820k
Dragonfly Black Dac , you can just about see it green lit up
I know the cable are a mess but I don't have a window so don't mind
Only problem I've encountered so far is I had some strange mouse lag I seem to have sorted this by changing the mouse polling rate in the mouse drivers and the back again Roccat kone XT mouse
good buy for £450, if only it stayed like that.
all those reviewers breathing a sigh of relief now.
Can't see many people forking out £550+ for a "free game" package few want. I would imagine the vast majority just want the card. Will be interesting to see if AMD follow through.
yeah we all know we not going to actually see cards at that price for very long, but it will be interesting to see if this at least reduces current pricing, the important thing is AMD have officially verified a figure, this then gives a proper baseline for reviews and people can see how much gouging is done by retailers. As a reduced RRP should mean a retailer is paying less for the cards and that would mean for the same profit margin they can charge less.
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Guessing they'll be a lot more Vega 56 owners, that has me more eager then anything else
So in all logic the standalone 64 should be back on OCUK soon at 450£ ish (with the out of stock/pre order tag of course), because the MSRP of the standalone is 499$ and it's only a stock problem and not a bait & switch. If the standalone MSRP is correct, pre-orders should be possible, because I can preorder a MSRP "pack" atm, Am I right ?