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Received mine today, just this minute put her together. She's not much to look at, but does the job nicely.
http://imgur.com/HnR3MJJ
Temps, noise, and overclock. Spill the beans.
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Temps, noise, and overclock. Spill the beans.
It isn't an excuse. It is simple economics.
If we had 900 series release gbp/usd rates then we would have near £300 1070's and £500 1080's.
Instead we have a rate of 1.3 making everything about 20% more expensive.
Do you think the uk retailers are going to subsidise the rate difference for us or something, or that Nvidia will reduce the MSRP just to help the UK out
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It isn't an excuse. It is simple economics.
If we had 900 series release gbp/usd rates then we would have near £300 1070's and £500 1080's.
Instead we have a rate of 1.3 making everything about 20% more expensive.
Do you think the uk retailers are going to subsidise the rate difference for us or something, or that Nvidia will reduce the MSRP just to help the UK out
The pound is at 30-40 year lows against the dollar. Things that are bought in dollars and into this country will cost more, that is just how it works.
nah, Nvidia ( or AMD for that matter ) couldn't care less about UK and our issues. They want to satisfy US market first and can't really blame them for that.
I know. I was being flippant.
The amount of times i see people just laughing off the exchange rate difference as not the issue is seriously annoying. It IS the main reason this generation is more expensive than the last ones.
As has been pointed out many times on this forum, the 670 and 770 both had a higher base MSRP than the 1070 but our exchange rate with USD was loads better ( or at least around or above 1.5) then, making them cheaper (for us, comparatively).
Low, quiet, stock.
My Fire Strike score went from 9708 with the 970 to 14252 with the 1070.
Sigh...............do you really think Nvidia suddenly pay for this GPU stock when you buy it in the UKIt isn't an excuse. It is simple economics.
If we had 900 series release gbp/usd rates then we would have near £300 1070's and £500 1080's.
Instead we have a rate of 1.3 making everything about 20% more expensive.
Do you think the uk retailers are going to subsidise the rate difference for us or something, or that Nvidia will reduce the MSRP just to help the UK out
its been paid for months ago before exchange rate issues this is pure n simple price gouging.Sigh...............do you really think Nvidia suddenly pay for this GPU stock when you buy it in the UK
You might want to get Gibbo to explain how this works to you
or just do a search for his posts on the issue so you can get informed
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You might want to get Gibbo to explain how this works to you
or just do a search for his posts on the issue so you can get informed
agreed, Gibbo already explained this several times, we are quite well informed on the inner workings of OC UK, prices, when payments are made, heck we even have sales numbers
You might want to get Gibbo to explain how this works to you
or just do a search for his posts on the issue so you can get informed
Or you can realise that a £680 1080 would not be £500 if we stayed in, They would be £600 still as there is low stock every where.
Oil prices have gone down but the petrol stations still charge us £1.10 odd a litre, is that down to the exchange rate too?
The 1080's started at £525 on release when there was even less/no stock.
Now they start at £600
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/graphics-cards/nvidia/geforce-gtx-1080?sPage=1&sSort=3
Also, oil prices - yes because whilst oil prices have gone down, the exchange rate has gone down too, so we haven't benefited
As i said, ask Gibbo kindly to explain it to you if you are struggling to grasp the situation, or simply search for his posts on the matter
.Here you go if you cant be bothered to look yourself-
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29836560&postcount=101
The cards would be 20% cheaper at 1.55 (the commonly forecast rate if we voted to remain)
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Ba ha, me too! My current PC is an i5 750 with 5770, built October 2009.
Going to a 6600k, 1070 with SSD. I get the feeling this is going to be a proper upgrade...
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When you see deals like this, you have to wonder what the heck is going on in Asus' collective mind when they are selling a 1060 for $326? And no doubt that is a good price from OcUK. May as well get the the 1070.
3d mark score with the 5770 which turned out to be a 5670 so only 512mb of ram = 906 thats with an i5 6500 in their
3d mark with the 1070:12918
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13702822
that's all stock. no OC attempted.
bit of an increase alright
Asus have just gone bananas. I think they think they are becoming the 'Apple' of pc components.
Yeah ok
That is what Gibbo has said, and why wouldn't they?
There is no point sticking your head in the sand thinking the exchange rate doesnt matter and hasnt affected things quite a bit.
The GBP value to the USD is the lowest it has been in probably most of our lifetimes (apart from the real oldies
) and unfortunately almost all of these cards are bought by UK retailers in USD.I know Gibbo is good but even he can't predict future exchange rates.
He wasn't predicting anything, just stating what the prices would be if the GBP/USD rate was 1.55.
This was around where it was predicted to be by most analysts if we voted to remain (we got a glimpse of this as it shot to 1.51 briefly, the day before when everyone thought remain had won).
Before all this brexit stuff came in to view we have been at around 1.5-1.6 for the last 5+ years