690 & 7970 price increase

[Final8ty]

after the titan stupidity. looks like 7970 on newegg is on the rise.

sapphire oc was $365 after MIR.
now is $395 after MIR.

xfx was $380 after MIR.
now is $415 after MIR.

http://forums.anandtech.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=34658754


Any notice that the Asus & EVGA GTX 690's went up ?40?

That's ?100 more then it was a few days ago. So glad I got mine before that. Got mine for ?739

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=23804182#post23804182

 

[suiken_2mieu]

I have noticed this. It's been happening for a while. When I was buying an msi 7970 power edition. The peice was going up $10 a day. So I bit before it raised too far.

 

[hardmacksmith]

Well since I thought the consenus was that no new parts were coming out for atleast another six months why wouldn't they increase prices (at least on the retailer side)

 

[Solitude]

glad i grabbed a 7970 before this happened.

 

[thorian88]

It's because AMD is prolonging the 8 series cards probably until late this year or next year and Nvidia's latest and greatest is a 30% performance increase from current gen top-tier cards but with a $1000 price tag.