VEGA IS FINALLY HERE, ITS IN STOCK ALONG WITH SOME EPIC BUNDLES & FREESYNC DEALS!!

[Gibbo]

Hi there


OK its being a long time coming, finally we have one of the most advanced graphics cards to exist featuring the latest HBM2.0 memory and a whopping 8G of it for good measure. Performance out the door is very good, especially at this price point, but remember AMD never disappointment with performance uplifts from driver updates and as games take advantage of the GCN architecture and HBM2.0 memory making these cards future proof and a great option for anyone upgrading from an older AMD card or building a new system. Also remember with Vulkan enabled games VEGA is pretty much untouchable at this price point.

Now the good and bad news, the good news is AMD are rebating early launch sales to allow us to hit £449.99 on the stand alone black card which has no games. This is a launch only price which AMD at present are saying will be withdrawn in the near future, when if it happens is unknown, but remember do not be shocked if the price jumps nearly £100 in a few days.

This time round there is no early adopter tax, quite the opposite on the stand alone black card, so do be quick.

We've also made some bundles as well, these bundles feature NO DISCOUNT, what you get is two AAA titles knows as Prey and yet to be released Wolfenstein II PC games, worth a solid £50 between them. Well I lie, they include the Black Card which has £100 discount up front, so by buying the bundles you get the black card at the launch discounted price, but also score the two free games. This is also same case for the Samsung & VEGA monitor bundle, it includes the black pre-discounted card, but also scores you the two free games.

I've also done some nice cheeky discounts on Ryzen CPU, FREESYNC Monitors which shall be listed below to celebrate the launch of VEGA.

You can now finally build the AMD system of your dreams, lovely Ryzen or Threadripper CPU, DDR4 AM4/TR4 motherboard and of course a lovely VEGA card.





Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 XTX 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Liquid Cooled Graphics Card - Aqua Pack @ £638.99 inc VAT



21275-00-40G, Core Clock: 1406MHz, Boost Clock: 1677MHz, Memory: 8192MB 945MHz HBM2, Stream Processors: 4096, DirectX 12 Support, Vulkan Support, GCN, 2 Year Warranty.



Only £638.99 inc VAT with FREE GAMES

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Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Limited Edtion Graphics Card @ £548.99 inc VAT



21275-01-20G, Core Clock: 1247MHz, Boost Clock: 1546MHz, Memory: 8192MB 945MHz HBM2, Stream Processors: 4096, DirectX 12 Support, Vulkan Support, GCN, 2 Year Warranty.



Only £548.99 inc VAT with FREE Games

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Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card (21275-02-20G) @ £449.99 inc VAT



21275-02-20G, Core Clock: 1247MHz, Boost Clock: 1546MHz, Memory: 8192MB 945MHz HBM2, Stream Processors: 4096, DirectX 12 Support, Vulkan Support, GCN, 2 Year Warranty, *LAUNCH PRICE £449, BE QUICK!*



Only £449.99 inc VAT - LAUNCH PRICE, WILL GO UP (NO FREE GAMES!)

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AMD RX VEGA 64 Black Pack with Samsung 34" Curved Gaming FREESYNC Monitor - FREE GAMES @ £1,249.98 inc VAT



This bundle contains a Sapphire RX VEGA 64, Samsung C34F791 34" 3440x1440 FREESYNC 100Hz Monitor, Prey & Wolfenstein PC Games!



Only £1,249.98 inc VAT with TWO FREE Games

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RX VEGA 64 & RYZEN Bundle: RX VEGA 64, Ryzen 1700X, Gigabyte AX370 Gaming, 16Gb 3200MHz 8 Pack RAM, Cooler bundle @ £1,206.89 inc VAT



This bundle includes, Sapphire AMD RX VEGA 64 VGA Card, AMD Ryzen 1700X CPU, 16Gb 8 Pack 3200MHz Dual Channel DDR4 RAM, Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K5 Motherboard, Alpenfohn CPU Cooler



Only £1,206.89 inc VAT with TWO FREE Games

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RX VEGA 64 & RYZEN Bundle: RX VEGA 64, Ryzen 1800X, Gigabyte AX370 Gaming, 16Gb 3200MHz 8 Pack RAM, Cooler bundle @ £1,296.89 inc VAT



This bundle includes, Sapphire AMD RX VEGA 64 VGA Card, AMD Ryzen 1800X CPU, 16Gb 8 Pack 3200MHz Dual Channel DDR4 RAM, Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K5 Motherboard, Alpenfohn CPU Cooler



Only £1,296.89 inc VAT with TWO FREE Games

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Iiyama G-Master GB2488HSU-B3 24" 1920x1080 TN 144Hz FREESYNC 1ms Widescreen LED Super Slim Bezel Monitor - Black @ £209.99 inc VAT



LED Backlit, 1920x1080 Resolution, 12000000:1 Contrast Ratio, 350cd/m² Brightness, 1ms Response Time, 1x DVI-D Input, 2x HDMI Input, 1x DisplayPort, 3 Years On-Site Warranty.



Only £209.99 inc VAT.

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LG 29UM68-P 29" 2560x1080 IPS FREESYNC Gaming Super-Wide Widescreen LED Monitor - Black @ £259.99 inc VAT



LED Backlit, 2560x1080 Resolution, 5000000:1 Contrast Ratio, 250cd/m² Brightness, 5ms Response Time, 1x DisplayPort Input, 2x HDMI, 2 Year RTB Warranty.



Only £259.99 inc VAT.

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AOC G2460PF 24" 1920x1080 TN FREESYNC 144Hz 1ms Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red @ £199.99 inc VAT



LED Backlit, 1920x1080 Resolution, 800000000:1 Contrast Ratio, 350cd/m² Brightness, 1ms Response Time, 1x DisplayPort, 1x DVI-D, 1x HDMI, FREESYNC, 3 Year On-Site Warranty.



Only £199.99 inc VAT.

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Iiyama G-Master GB2783QSU-B1 27" 2560x1440 TN FREESYNC Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black @ £229.99 inc VAT



LED Backlit, 2560x1440 Resolution, 1000000000:1 Contrast Ratio, 350cd/m² Brightness, 1ms Response Time, 1x DisplayPort, 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, FREESYNC, Height Adjust, 3 Year On-Site Warranty.



Only £229.99 inc VAT.

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Samsung C24FG70 24" 1920x1080 VA FREESYNC 144Hz Gaming Quantum DOT Widescreen Monitor @ £248.99 inc VAT



LC24FG70FQUXEN, 1920x1080 Resolution, 500,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, 1ms Response Time, 350 cd/m2 Brightness, 2x HDMI Input, 1x Display Port, Freesync, 144Hz, Quantum DOT, 2yr On-Site Warranty.



Only £248.99 inc VAT.

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Samsung C27FG70 27" 1920x1080 VA FREESYNC 144Hz Gaming Quantum DOT Widescreen Monitor @ £319.99 inc VAT



LC27FG70FQUXEN, 1920x1080 Resolution, 500,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, 1ms Response Time, 350 cd/m2 Brightness, 2x HDMI Input, 1x Display Port, Freesync, 144Hz, Quantum DOT, 2yr On-Site Warranty.



Only £319.99 inc VAT.

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Samsung C34F791 34" 3440x1440 VA FREESYNC 100Hz Gaming Quantum DOT Widescreen Monitor @ £799.99 inc VAT



LC34F791WQUXEN, 3440x1440 Resolution, 500,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, 4ms Response Time, 350 cd/m2 Brightness, 2x HDMI Input, 1x Display Port, Freesync, 100Hz Native, Quantum DOT, 2yr On-Site Warranty.



Only £799.99 inc VAT.

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Samsung C32HG70 32" 2560x1440 VA FREESYNC 144Hz Gaming Quantum DOT HDR Widescreen Curved Monitor @ £635.99 inc VAT



LC32HG70QQUXEN, 2560x1440 Resolution, 50M:1 Contrast Ratio, 1ms Response Time, 350 cd/m2 Brightness, 2x HDMI 2.0 Input, 1x DP, Freesync1&2, 144Hz Native, Quantum DOT, HDR10, 2yr On-Site Warranty.



Only £635.99 inc VAT.

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Samsung U32H850 4k 32" 3840x2160 VA FREESYNC Quantum DOT Gaming Widescreen Monitor @ £559.99 inc VAT



3840x2160 Resolution, 100,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, 4ms Response Time, 250 cd/m2 Brightness, 2x HDMI input, 1x Display Port, Freesync, 3yr On-Site Warranty.



Only £559.99 inc VAT.

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LG 38UC99 38" 3840x1600 FREESYNC IPS 75Hz WideScreen Super-Wide Curved LED Monitor @ £1,199.99 inc VAT



LED Backlit, 3840x1600 Resolution, 5000000:1 Contrast Ratio, 300cd/m² Brightness, 1ms Response Time, 1x DisplayPort Input, 2x HDMI 2.0, 2 Years Warranty.



Only £1,199.99 inc VAT.

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Samsung C49HG90 49" 3840x1080 VA FREESYNC 144Hz Gaming Quantum DOT HDR Widescreen Curved Monitor @ £1,298.99 inc VAT



LC49HG90DMNXZA, 3840x1080 Resolution, 50M:1 Contrast Ratio, 1ms Response Time, 350 cd/m2 Brightness, 2x HDMI 2.0 Input, 1x DP, 1x mDP, Freesync, 144Hz Native, Quantum DOT, HDR10, 2yr On-Site Warranty.



Only £1,298.99 inc VAT.

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Samsung S27H850 27" 2560x1440 PLS FREESYNC Widescreen Professional/Gaming Bezelless Monitor @ £409.99 inc VAT



LS27H850QFUXEN, 2560x1440 Resolution, 100,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, 4ms Response Time, 350 cd/m2 Brightness, 1x HDMI input, 1x Display Port, Freesync, 3yr On-Site Warranty.



Only £409.99 inc VAT.

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Samsung S24H850 24" 2560x1440 PLS FREESYNC Widescreen Professional/Gaming Bezelless Monitor @ £319.99 inc VAT



LS24H850QFUXEN, 2560x1440 Resolution, 100,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, 4ms Response Time, 350 cd/m2 Brightness, 1x HDMI input, 1x Display Port, Freesync, 3yr On-Site Warranty.



Only £319.99 inc VAT.

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LG 34UC79G 34" 2560x1080 IPS FREESYNC 144Hz Curved Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red @ £488.99 inc VAT



34UC79G-B, 2560x1080 Resolution, 5000000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio, 250cd/m² Brightness, 5ms Response Time, 2x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, 2 Year RTB Warranty.



Only £388.99 inc VAT with voucher code "LG100" at checkout

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AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail @ £188.99 inc VAT



YD1600BBAEBOX, Six Core with Twelve Threads, 3.60GHz clock speed, 14nm FinFet Process, 16MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 3 Year Warranty



Only £188.99 inc VAT.

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper Sixteen Core 1950X 4.00GHz (Socket TR4) Processor - Retail @ £998.99 inc VAT



YD195XA8AEWOF, 16 Core with 32 Threads, 4.00GHz clock speed, 14nm FinFet Process, 40MB L3 Cache, Quad Channel DDR4 Controller, 3 Year Warranty



Only £998.99 inc VAT.

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The FREESYNC monitor range make VEGA a very attractive option indeed.

 

[Gibbo]

Thanks for passing on the good price of those reference blower cards - other stores are not doing the same!

That is because to do so, we lose a tonne of cash, but were an AMD partner and we know they will look after those who support them and as such OcUK is playing by the AMD rule book plus we value our customers.

Shame on the other stores for just pocketing the cash, in short they will wait for us to sell out and then sell their stock all day long at £100 more.

 

[Gibbo]

OK the £100 discounted ones, nearly all gone, shall be going up £100 in a few minutes, sales are insane, never expected this!

 

[Gibbo]

You should have a word with your parent company then ... Caseking (who own OCUK) are selling RX Vegas for almost exactly €110 more than SRP ... and £100 more than OCUK.

Good that you have the leeway from them to do this, though.

Our prices will be going up in minutes, the cheaper stock is all but gone. I knew VEGA would be insanely popular, but oh my, never seen a VGA launch like it for years, nearly 1000 sold in less than 30 minutes.

 

[Gibbo]

I think he meant all vega 64 cards as they are all sold out now.

I wonder how many were on £100 discount offer.

I can't give you numbers as competitors read the forums who then complain to AMD, but in short several hundred!

 

[Gibbo]

Yes all lines are sold out and all pre-launch pricing is over, was expecting it to last 24hrs, we did not even make 1hr.

 

[Gibbo]

Ahh knew it ...Normal pricing not lasting long ..... Time to jump on the gouge train

How wrong you are, if we carried on at £449 we lose a large amount of money, AMD supported the price for a set amount of units, we have sold beyond the set amount, so now the price is at regular MSRP which is single digit margin.

So not gouge at all, just a company trying to make some money, and if you consider single digit margin gouging, well no pleasing some.

 

[Gibbo]

So the MSRP announced at Siggraph

• AMD Radeon RX Vega 64: $499

You need to sell here now for 549 pounds to make a single digit profit margin ? ... If so you be out of business soon

Being doing this for 15 years, so don't think were going anywhere soon, sorry to disappoint you.

 

[Gibbo]

Lets get one thing crystal clear here!

Launch MSRP $499, a $100 reduction for launch, regular MSRP of $599, check a site such as newegg for confirmation:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...BESTMATCH&Description=RX+VEGA&N=-1&isNodeId=1

UK launch MSRP £449, a £100 reduction, yes we got a full £100 which worked favourably and much cheaper than you can buy one from US, remember US is excluding taxes. Now launch pricing is finished, so £549 which falls in line with $599 MSRP.

 

[Gibbo]

@Gibbo
out of interest, did you buy one for yourself ?

No PC at home and perk of the job if I wanted one, I'd just ask a board partner for a free one. But doubt it will go into my Ryzen laptop, unless I got one of those external box thingies.

 

[Gibbo]

As per post above SIGGRAPH slide said msrp for black cooler was 499. Metal cooler and game bundles 100 more but reports did say distributers would hike the price by 100. So probably ocuk have to pay 100 more to secure stock from their distributers.

The monitor bundle deal makes no sense. And said bundle would give money off monitor $200. Yet ocuk price of card and monitor puts the monitor at £800 which is 50 more than it sells alone!

Why?

Just checked and monitor is £739 at well known stores. That's less than ocuk and makes this bundle price even more crazy as there isn't the promised AMD $200 off the monitor if you bought it with a card. What gives? Monitor pack should be £449 for card + £600 or there about a for monitor.

Your maths is wrong, the monitor bundles has no discount or price added, it takes the price of the components from webshop, so your either doing it wrong or our website is.

The advantage of the bundles is they have free games.

AMD's launch plan was:

$499 - NO games for a set amount of cards (NOW SOLD OUT)
$599 - Black and Silver with games
$699 - Aqua with games

The monitor and other bundles use the black card which was priced at £449 for launch (£100 discount), the pre-allocated amount sold out so these are now back to the regular £549 ($599) price but now include the games. But at the time monitor, plus card and games was £1249.99, the saving was the £100 discounted already from the card, but the bonus was the advantage of getting free games. I tried to explain this in the OP.

Now the card is £549, back to normal price (MSRP is $599, the $499 MSRP is launch MSRP for set amount, irrelevant what people believe this is the case and stock has come direct from Sapphire/AMD, they set my buy prices and well selling at $499 loses money unless AMD support it which they did for a set amount which is now sold) As such the price is now £1299, so its only gone up £50 whereas the card went up £100 as Samsung are supporting rebate when sold as a bundle.

So its cheaper than you can buy separately (£550 +£800 = £1350 and no games), the bundle is £1299 with free games. So either you can't add up, or just like myself and most people and customers are highly confused by exactly what AMD have done for this launch, LOL!

 

[Gibbo]

Incorrect .... Launch price MSRP at siggraph ..Confirmed by AMD is 499 dollar ...
Where did that extra 100 dollar came from all of a sudden ?

YOU ARE WRONG!


AMD said $499 launch price! We hit there launch price and sold all their launch allocation and more at the launch price!

Launch is over so there is now no stand alone black part, they are now all sold with games starting at $599, its not OcUK, it is the launch plan AMD made, we stuck by it whereas many did not.

Just like on August 28th AMD will launch VEGA 56 at $399, so probably £349 UK, this will also be a launch price for limited volume. One the set launch volume is sold out the price will go up, no doubt to $449-$499 but unconfirmed yet.

 

[Gibbo]

any benchmarks for the Vega 64 yet? My nephew is looking at buying a 1080ti at the end of the month is it worth switching to the vega 64 instead? or to early to tell yet?

1080Ti is faster!

 

[Gibbo]

Press reported and game bundle came with $200 off the Samsung monitor. While I agree they have been really bad at communicating pricing $200 is more than £50 or £100 even with post brexit exchange

The monitor can be bought at £739 without any gpu so not seeing the bundle saving even with a card at £549.





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Not from OcUK, I am not interested in pricing elsewhere, the prices I stated were OcUK.
Plus did anywhere else in the UK even offer the VEGA Black + Samsung 34" with FREE gamers at £1249 in stock, I think were the only reseller who bothered to do the bundle. Then Samsung UK was not offering $200, not even close, but the AMD site does state monitor/rebate varies region to region.

 

[Gibbo]

oh ok, so your a laptop man

dont you play games (fps mainly) ?

I rarely ever play games, DOOM is on one of my laptops, play it once in a blue moon.

 

[Gibbo]

Gibbo, are we really looking at next month for more stock?

Sapphire told me September 10th, I have being talking to AMD all afternoon regarding more stock and the whole confusion regarding the pricing and the launch pricing and how much confusion it has caused people. We've followed AMD's launch plan to the LETTER! Yet people think OcUK is trying to rip them off, where all were doing is as per AMD guidelines, we continue selling at £449 we lose huge money, SIMPLES!

 

[Gibbo]

Fair enough you are entitled to charge what you wish and can get away with it is a business after all.

Shortest launch in history if launch pricing lasted less than 1 hour.

Guessing miners bought up the stock. Reviews show it as a poor card generally anyway so gamers should shop green if it was me. Real shame as AMD cpu launch was much better.

I wasn't in the market for a new GPU but I do resent inflation in the market which only serves to make gamers poorer

Limited to 1pc per customer, did not see many repeat order attempts, some customers did buy 2-3 at first, miners unknown as the rumours of 70-100 hash seem far fetched that an AIB mentioned, seems more around 40 hash which to me makes no sense why miners would want it unless its particular good at some other coin, would not be surprised as some miners buy Ryzen CPU's to mine specific coins, but thankfully on Ryzen AMD can supply the volume.

I think gamers have taken all this up, AMD have a lot of loyal customers who are still using likes of 290X/390X and even older stuff like 7970 etc. who wanted an upgrade path but wanted to stay with AMD.
Not all customers want what forums want, can be quite the opposite.

 

[Gibbo]

FYI i’m grateful to you for all you’ve done. Me missing out is down to my bank and i’m unhappy with them but big purchases can trigger card blocks.

I do think AMD haven’t been clear though, and that the cards are far more competitive at £450 than £550 given performance. That’s just a side effect of the 1080 at £450 sadly, you need to price to compete especially if you’re a year late to the fight.

AMD have being told by me, stand alone cards, need to be £449 for VEGA 64 and £349 for VEGA 56, permanently, not just for launch or restricted to a certain volume but permanent. They are worried about miners but we can alleviate that with 1pc per customer, hell I'd even set up voucher codes if AMD wanted it off the radar so loyal customers and forum members could bag 1pc at the LAUNCH pricing. I will keep pushing, because at £449 VEGA 64 is a fantastic bit of kit and VEGA 56 at £349 bargain of the century.

I will push AMD very hard to make this happen, but for it to happen AMD need to support it, because without their support we would make a horrific loss and well if we lose money, then we'd be better off not selling it, FULL STOP! Won't stop pushing because at such prices they will fly, but then on the flip side AMD need to be able to give me like 10,000 units minimum to keep the product in stock and keep with demand.

But we won't stop pushing, I think to be frank AMD are a little shocked with how fast our stock went, I think they themselves have under-estimated how many gamers there still is on HD 5xxx, 6xxx, 7xxx and 290/390 series who wanted and do still want to upgrade to a card from AMD either because they are loyal, like AMD or have a FREESYNC monitor or are planning a FREESYNC monitor purchase.

End of the day there is a huge amount of FREESYNC monitors, some of them very nice, like the 49" Samsung and of course the OcUK killer deal on the LG 34" at £389

 

[Gibbo]

if its any more than 350 for the 56, il be ditching the freesync as ive been stuck on a 290 for god knows how long.

AMD UK, you see it needs to be £349, am sure they are reading this!

 

[Gibbo]

I can't see 1 PC helping if they all sold out today.
450 for a Vega 64's nothing to write home about, let another 550 and 650 which all sold out.

£400 and £300 for 64 and 56 is what makes sense in the market given their lateness etc.
With the 580 being the 200 it's meant to be.

Its a product launch, just like any other big anticipated product launch we generally have upto 5000 customers viewing the site in realtime all wanting to check out the options or trying to get an order in.

If cards appeared in stock today, they'd last much longer as you'd not get the panic buying, rush to be first etc. People always want to be first with shiny new kit, e-peen and all that, also lots of customers who ordered will regret their decision for whatever reason, wife found out, performance not as expected, PSU not good enough, won't fit in case, can't afford it and will return un-used. Happens at every launch, nothing new just like when high street shops do Black Friday deals on a TV you could have purchased the month before at same price, but because Black Friday they are start scrapping over a junk TV.