$729 EVGA GTX 1080 in stock @ Best Buy

TFchris said:
Can't wait to pay $200 over MSRP for 2 year old technology :(
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On the other hand, people have had 2 years to buy it at MSRP or less. Its only been more expensive for a few weeks. Why is it suddenly so important to now, when it hasn't been for 2 years?

BTW, MSRP has gone up due to memory shortage.
 
In the current market, that's not a bad price for new. At the wholesale level 10 packs of the slightly better EVGA 1080 cards are not hugely cheaper.
 
2 year old technology with new Volta (or whatever they will call it) for release in next quarter or two.....
What a waste of money on soon to be obsolete tech
 
odditory said:
On the other hand, people have had 2 years to buy it at MSRP or less. Its only been more expensive for a few weeks. Why is it suddenly so important to now, when it hasn't been for 2 years?

BTW, MSRP has gone up due to memory shortage.
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Exactly, it didn’t take long to figure out if you are in the market for a high end graphics card you are better off buying at launch when disruptive performance cards launch (new flagship or perf/price midrange champ), rather than waiting for prices to drop near EOL. Prices don’t drop much at all until the next disruptive part launches and at that point you’ve foregone how many months or years of performance? And in a worst case scenario you actually see prices stay high or artificially appreciate as we are seeing now!
 
odditory said:
On the other hand, people have had 2 years to buy it at MSRP or less. Its only been more expensive for a few weeks. Why is it suddenly so important to now, when it hasn't been for 2 years?

BTW, MSRP has gone up due to memory shortage.
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It's not important. Which is why I sarcastically commented implying it is not a good deal.

MSRP has not changed at all. They are still the same price as listed on nvidia. However RP by private companies have gone up due to supply and demand.

And Pascal technology released around May 2016. It is reasonable to round up to the two year mark as a generalization.
 
It's rare to see even BB price gouging so bad. 1050Ti's for $300 and 1060's for $450+.
 
im shocked people are still buying gpus and cpus that are marked up by at least $200 more. why? do you need a card that bad?
 
LOL I paid $389 for my EVGA 1080.....Damn these mining prices are just fucking insane lol.
 
in stock again. as others have said... not the best deal for this card.
 
Expect to pay a fairly high price for the Volta cards at launch.
Currently Nvidia and AMD can sell every card they can make, so no need to beg people to buy, if the cards mine much better than the previous generation as well as game much better, they will have a near guarantee of selling the first production run out.
Memory costs 2 to 3 times more than it did when the 1080 originally launched.

I'm going to suggest the high end gaming Volta will probably launch in the $700 to $800 range with the other cards below it, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is a $900 to $1k offering.

But we should see in another month.
 
most crypto mining has hit high difficulty and SEC will regulate ICOs

there's going to be a fire sale of gfx soon, if you can wait until end Q1

At best, Volta ~2x mining improvement and <30% better power efficiency, meanwhile mining return (by difficulty and coin value has dropped 4x)
 
buttons said:
I paid $439 for my first 1080, $499 with free games after that. $550 is my tops, volta is almost here anyway...
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Yup, I bought 2 at $425.00 each about 6 months ago..and I rarely ever game anymore..:)
 
im shocked people are still buying gpus and cpus that are marked up by at least $200 more. why? do you need a card that bad?
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Not that I'm shopping for a high-end card, but I keep reading this. My rig just sploded and now I'm stuck on a HP 400-314 running an AMD E1-2500 that's soldered in. I don't even know what that is, I just know it sucks ass. Hence, what little money I have is burning a hole in my pocket.

Not like I WANTED my PC to blow up during the worst price spike in the history of the universe...
 
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