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*****UK's Best Price & Staggering DEAL - ATI HD 5870 £179.99 Delivered!*****

Journey said:
Given the price of these out going 5870's I'd be very surprised to see the majority of Etailors pricing the 6950 too close until the stock is cleared, I would say £249 would make a good price point until availability of the new cards increased and the old cards decreased.

Take in to account the fight for the Holiday Season business and you can expect some very aggressive offers from the manufacturers pushing pretty big discounts for suppliers. I'd expect to see a £199-229 6950 about a month from now, and GTX 480's to be down at £229-249.
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oh dear, that would be mint
 
bigjimmyauk said:
Because it's not AMD selling the cards it's VTX, VTX would buy an allocation of chips these chips would have been produced pre 6800 series. You really think VTX or AMD are making a loss even a 5870 @ circa £200 both parties will still have made profit.
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Oh ok sorry didn't realise you were the new purchaser for GFX cards at OCUK you must have real good connections at AMD.

Oh wait.


:rolleyes:
 
bigjimmyauk said:
Because it's not AMD selling the cards it's VTX, VTX would buy an allocation of chips these chips would have been produced pre 6800 series. You really think VTX or AMD are making a loss even a 5870 @ circa £200 both parties will still have made profit.
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Fact is VTX have a build cost, they have sold below what there build cost is substancially as are other ATI AIB Partners.

I know this for a fact, the only way VTX or any other board partner can prevent loosing money is to go back to AMD and say we need to shift our 5870 inventry which we own at this price, but we need to sell it at this price. Then hopefully AMD will financially sort them out so they can move the stock at a lower cost. If AMD refuse then the board partner takes a hit and looses money.

I have close personal friends at manufacturers who know all the costing and know for a fact at these new prices with funding from AMD the board partners are now loosing money.


Also to compete with competitors following our pricing I've lowered our 5870 price and anyone who placed an order for one, call our sales to refund the difference.
 
the thing is they only want to clear the stock of 5870 as 6950 and 6970 coming and nobody will buy 5870 when they come so they dont care if they selling for a loss they could even sell them for 100£ ~ 150£.

they probably selling it now at 100 £ so i will be not surprise if ocuk will lover them even lower maybe when 69** come out they will lover them for 150 £

edit: i seen that price change from 187 to 179 :P

do they even have voltage control ?

the thing is why ocuk when i log in price changes from UK VAT to Ireland VAT even the store located is in uk i should pay only UK VAT no Irelands. other stores dont do that and it works out cheaper to buy it from them.
 
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Great price when you consider two of these in Crossfire will comfortably better a GTX580 for less money. I guess there are a lot of 5870's in the pipeline and ATI needs to clear stock whilst they can. I remember 4890 & GTX280 prices dropping like stones after release of 58xx/4xx series.

Do these VTX 5870's overclock, or have they been handicapped like the V2 5850's were?
 
psychas said:
the thing is they only want to clear the stock of 5870 as 6950 and 6970 coming and nobody will buy 5870 when they come so they dont care if they selling for a loss they could even sell them for 100£ ~ 150£.

they probably selling it now at 100 £ so i will be not surprise if ocuk will lover them even lower maybe when 69** come out they will lover them for 150 £

edit: i seen that price change from 187 to 179 :P

do they even have voltage control ?
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Thats rubbish!

I have 6950 and 6970 stock shipping and I've paid for it.

I can tell you now the pricing will be:-

6950 @ £270 - £300 Inc. VAT
6970 @ £360 - £400 inc. VAT

I have lots en-route.

Now the 5870's are sub £200, thats £100 cheaper than a 6950 and same price as a 6870.

People will and are buying 5870's now they are sub £200 because at sub £200 there is no faster card. :)

5870 won't be going £150 or lower, what would be the point, as then 6850/6870 would not sell.

Plus if you think 69xx cards are gonna be £200 then think again and look at my pricing above, again use common sense, why would 6950 be same price as a 6870?

6950 competes with GTX 570/480 and is priced similar.
6970 competes with GTX 580 and is priced similar.
 
Gibbo said:
Thats rubbish!

I have 6950 and 6970 stock shipping and I've paid for it.

I can tell you now the pricing will be:-

6950 @ £270 - £300 Inc. VAT
6970 @ £360 - £400 inc. VAT

I have lots en-route.

Now the 5870's are sub £200, thats £100 cheaper than a 6950 and same price as a 6870.

People will and are buying 5870's now they are sub £200 because at sub £200 there is no faster card.

5870 won't be going £150 or lower, what would be the point, as then 6850/6870 would not sell.

Plus if you think 69xx cards are gonna be £200 then think again and look at my pricing above, again use common sense, why would 6950 be same price as a 6870?

6950 competes with GTX 570/480 and is priced similar.
6970 competes with GTX 580 and is priced similar.
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Sorry for the hijack Gibbo, but do you have any ideas of quantities yet for the 69XX or indeed the forthcoming 570s? I'm itching to buy but won't be able to for another 2 weeks I'd guess.
 
555BUK said:
Great price when you consider two of these in Crossfire will comfortably better a GTX580 for less money. I guess there are a lot of 5870's in the pipeline and ATI needs to clear stock whilst they can. I remember 4890 & GTX280 prices dropping like stones after release of 58xx/4xx series.

Do these VTX 5870's overclock, or have they been handicapped like the V2 5850's were?
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V2 5850's weren't handicapped i have mine comfortably sitting at 950/1200:confused:
 
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