** TITAN X NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER!! **

[ubersonic]

Wow EVGA are charging an extra £300 for a block mounted on the card...that seems a little OTT imo

It isn't quite that simple.

Firstly, it's £300 more than a reference/stock card, but it will have much higher clocks (the 980/780 HC's had stock clocks, which were roughly on par with Classified stock clocks), it's "only" £250 more than the SC version and will be clocked higher.

Secondly you get a water block and backplate (worth £100+) professionally installed as standard, no messing around if you have to RMA and no effort to install.

Thirdly, the EK produced EVGA blocks is actually better than EK's own brand blocks for the 980/Titan-X.

When you tally everything up it's ~£100 or less you would save by doing it all your self and to many of us it's not worth the agro. If I still had my GTX780 HC I would be all over one of these, but I already bought the GTX980 HC as I wasn't expecting these until summer.

 

[yoyo59]

It isn't quite that simple.

Firstly, it's £300 more than a reference/stock card, but it will have much higher clocks (the 980/780 HC's had stock clocks, which were roughly on par with Classified stock clocks), it's "only" £250 more than the SC version and will be clocked higher.

Secondly you get a water block and backplate (worth £100+) professionally installed as standard, no messing around if you have to RMA and no effort to install.

Thirdly, the EK produced EVGA blocks is actually better than EK's own brand blocks for the 980/Titan-X.

When you tally everything up it's ~£100 or less you would save by doing it all your self and to many of us it's not worth the agro. If I still had my GTX780 HC I would be all over one of these, but I already bought the GTX980 HC as I wasn't expecting these until summer.

I guess everyone sees it different...

apart from the bios which will mean nothing when on water anyway

there is no point in buying the Hydro unless its for bragging rights..

the EVGA block is made by EK.. so they're not superior (previously made by swiftech) exactly the same

you also pay more and get less.. for instance like Porsche GT3

if you buy a normal titan X then watercool it.. you have the cool black stock cooler.. you buy the Hydro you don't..

also takes less than 30 mins to put a block on ''professionally"

 

[Silent_Scone]

First batch sold within first ten minutes, we expect more volume late next week or following week, etas will be updated when we see shipping reports.

Initial stocks are very small across whole of Europe.

Out of pure curiosity I'd be interested to know where I was in the order queue as I was pretty snappy lol!. Any way of finding out?

I guess everyone sees it different...

apart from the bios which will mean nothing when on water anyway

there is no point in buying the Hydro unless its for bragging rights..

the EVGA block is made by EK.. so they're not superior (previously made by swiftech) exactly the same

you also pay more and get less.. for instance like Porsche GT3

if you buy a normal titan X then watercool it.. you have the cool black stock cooler.. you buy the Hydro you don't..

also takes less than 30 mins to put a block on ''professionally"

EK blocks are an absolute piece of urine to put on and takes all of 10 minutes. You'd have to be a ham fisted Ukrainian donkey wrestler to **** it up.

 

[flame696]

Wow i cant believe so many people have bought this card. Ill take 3 please lol if any available

 

[darket]

First batch sold within first ten minutes, we expect more volume late next week or following week, etas will be updated when we see shipping reports.

Initial stocks are very small across whole of Europe.

I ordered at 2:38 yesterday , was that too late then ? , i know it sounds silly but I've just parted with the best part of £1000, i'd rather not be waiting weeks if i'm being honest.

 

[ubersonic]

there is no point in buying the Hydro unless its for bragging rights..

Not trying to be rude but I did list three very valid reasons.

the EVGA block is made by EK.. so they're not superior (previously made by swiftech) exactly the same

No they're not, there completely different blocks to EK's normal ones, EK added fancy jet plates to their 980/TX blocks making them one way (dedicated in/out ports) in order to lower temps by ~1 degree (and give a reason to charge more). The EVGA ones built by EK are bi-directional.

you also pay more and get less.. for instance like Porsche GT3

Compared to the Titan-X SC you pay an extra £250 and get a faster stock clocked card plus a waterblock/backplate which would cost £130 by themselves, so your basically paying £120 to have it pre fitted (removing any chance of a **** up) and not have to remove it if you need to RMA (plus your card is much faster out of the box). For many people that's a worthwhile trade. If it isn't for you, then no problem, you're not the target audience and nobody is forcing you to buy it

apart from the bios which will mean nothing when on water anyway

The only difference between a standard and SC Titan-X is the BIOS and £50 on the RRP...

also takes less than 30 mins to put a block on ''professionally"

And it takes even less than that to change a CPU or service a gas boiler, but surprise surprise many people would rather have somebody else do it.

 

[EdgeDs]

I think that the market will always have room for a madly stupid over the top graphics card just too tax the rich and let us lesser have something too dream about getting

 

[SciNeT]

Seriously, why would anyone do that, other than just to say they did? Nevermind the 3rd card, what is the cost:% performance increase ratio on that fourth card?!!?

Some people want the best of the best and money is simply no object, I think this is what raises the hackles sometimes.

 

[73xug0]

When they announced it for 1000$ i thought: wow maybe this goes for £700 or so and maybe i buy it... Right now i am still trying to decide whether to buy a 980 (for now), buy a r9 295x2 or wait a bit longer for the new AMD cards. The bad thing, i am now on HD4600 and will be until i make a final decision looool

 

[Gibbo]

Gibbo, what size allocation of the OcUK branded ones do you have coming in?

Still plenty spare and they are due end of next week.

 

[^JP^]

Still plenty spare and they are due end of next week.

Good stuff

 

[subbytna]

£300 extra for the water block version??? 300! wut?

 

[Doogles]

They do look sexy as **** but I don't think I could ever spend more than £300 on a GPU personally, they depreciate to quick. R9 290 still got lots of life left in it yet @1440p. Have fun though to all the guys out there that buy one

 

[subbytna]

Free stock is my favourite kind of stock

Man so jealous of the guys who have ordered four, that's insane.

Also, if this doubling of ram continues does that mean the next Titan will have 24GB ram. Crazy times. Soon it will be quicker to let the CPU use VRAM as system ram!!!

Barclay and other banking thieves got their bonuses this month so that's who bought 4 of the titan x's

 

[McGraw]

They do look sexy as **** but I don't think I could ever spend more than £300 on a GPU personally, they depreciate to quick. R9 290 still got lots of life left in it yet @1440p. Have fun though to all the guys out there that buy one

Paid £260 for mine in September and it's £275 now

 

[Mariusz]

Still plenty spare and they are due end of next week.

Hi Gibbo, sorry to bother you, thinking about purchasing an OCUK Titan X, but just wanted to know if the warranty is still valid if the cooler is removed? IE to fit a water block or Kraken G10?

 

[Gibbo]

Hi Gibbo, sorry to bother you, thinking about purchasing an OCUK Titan X, but just wanted to know if the warranty is still valid if the cooler is removed? IE to fit a water block or Kraken G10?

No, removing cooler on any Titan X will invalidate warranty if the us or the manufacturer know its being removed.

You modify at your own risk I am afraid.

 

[tipes]

No, removing cooler on any Titan X will invalidate warranty if the us or the manufacturer know its being removed.

You modify at your own risk I am afraid.

Does this even apply to evga cards - somewhat surprised by this.

 

[Gibbo]

Does this even apply to evga cards - somewhat surprised by this.

I would imagine so. Ask on the VGA forum and I am sure one of our resident EVGA reps shall reply to you.

 

[Raumarik]

It's my 40th birthday in May, I just might have to treat myself to my first brand new GPU in 10 years