VEGA IS FINALLY HERE, ITS IN STOCK ALONG WITH SOME EPIC BUNDLES & FREESYNC DEALS!!
Unknown, might see pre-orders mid/end September, but right now the clear objective is getting stock of MBA cards.
Also I quite like the plain and clean design on reference cards, both AMD and NVIDIA, plus the heat out the case is always good anyway, only ever an issue if the things sound like a Dyson at full tilt, though these latest cards from NV/AMD with blowers are tolerable, especially if you setup custom fan curves.
So what?
Who cares, I read articles and news on subjects I enjoy, as long as its understandable, poor spelling or not it does not matter and its easily understandable by anyone with basic junior school reading skills.
Unknown, AMD and board partners know what we sold, it is now in their hands to get cards to those who ordered one in good faith.
Best get writing to the media site in question then to air your complaint. Guess I've got better things to do with my time than worry about spelling on articles on websites, I just read things for the news, I am not checking their spelling. Whatever floats your boat and all that.
Quite.
Best you get back to honouring those AMD Vega orders and stop wasting your time trying to get one up with me!
Its OK I've got nothing better to do with my time
and that is now in AMD's hands. 100+ due next week, if they land I shall activate a voucher code so forum members can get them around £580. Under £550 needs AMD to intervene with support, we simply won't sell product at a loss, no point, would be better to not sell at all.
I am afraid not, $399 is SEP for stand alone card. $399 / 1.29 = £309.30 + 20% TAX = £371.00
OcUK has stand alone cards from £379.99 which is slightly above SEP for stand alone, were not making a particular large amount of money either, in fact we make a huge loss but AMD are rebating us to hit the SEP at which point we make minimal margin and our sell out is capped, but its quite a big number so the stand alone product should be available for several more days yet and of course AMD could choose to extend the support to keep the stand alone pack going. Just like they have done on the VEGA 64, which has an SEP of $499 and OcUK is currently £469.99
Its not simple, its quite complicated, in a perfect world we'd just buy product at the lowest price possible and then add our margin which on components is typically 5-15% (yes margins are slim) don't believe us just see our accounts information publicly available. AMD have chosen to do things differently by having stand alone packs which the only way to hit the SEP is via back-end rebates which are capped and to then have regular packs with games that we essentially make 5% on and is considered normal.
The only way £350 happens is if sales slow, GBP strengthens and I make next to no profit and only on the basis of AMD support continuing then maybe £350 could be hit, but I don't see GBP strength improving drastically, I don't see sales slowing and as such I feel that £350 is simply impossible.
Right now even with AMD support to sell at £350 would lose us money!