Loving this Sapphire XT I got Friday, lovely lovely card gives me 28k TS gfx score using 330-340W and has more than enough grunt imo for a casual-ish gamer. Absolute quality cooler too
If these get to £699 they'll fly out!
I know you weren't being literal with casual gamer. But it's just hammers in how high pricing is that £600-£700 is currently 3rd or 4th down the hierarchy for AMD and Nvidia.
Not related to your comment. It's been really interesting seeing everyone's comments about historical pricing, Gamers Nexus have mentioned it a lot to in their reviews.
But I am not sure what that leaves a new person or someone with older hardware where modern games (even those where a bad port is not an issue). Just hold out I guess, I have just given up on that after 4 years. Will be buying my first card that's over £200 this year.
I am just hoping that I will be lucky and that prices will fall further by the time we hits September. This seems on course to happen but never any guarantees.