VaporX Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 These price cuts will benefit us all, so this is a great thing. The 7950 coming downs to right near $300 makes the choice there a little tougher. The 7850 dumping to $200 or so however is the real winner for most people. I cannot wait to see how nVidia responds to this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheGamer11 Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 Yeah just saw the price drop news in the ComputerEd FB page... Hope the competitiveness won't harm AMD... Piledriver in a while Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 After I saw this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6175/amd-radeon-hd-7800-series-price-cuts-new-game-bundle-inbound The first question which came to mind, "How nvidia is going to answer this?" And, it opens up the possibility of gifting myself 2x 7870 or 670s. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted August 21, 2012 Posted August 21, 2012 (edited) These price cuts will benefit us all, so this is a great thing. The 7950 coming downs to right near $300 makes the choice there a little tougher. The 7850 dumping to $200 or so however is the real winner for most people. I cannot wait to see how nVidia responds to this. May be they will drop the price of 670? Or am I expecting a bit more than what I should be? Edited August 21, 2012 by d6bmg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted August 22, 2012 Posted August 22, 2012 These price cuts will benefit us all, so this is a great thing. The 7950 coming downs to right near $300 makes the choice there a little tougher. The 7850 dumping to $200 or so however is the real winner for most people. I cannot wait to see how nVidia responds to this. They really had no choice but to drop the price when they put the 7950 in the same price point. This may be the impetus to drop the price to the $285-$290 point everyone claims the 660Ti should be at. Then silencing all the price point concerns. Its a concern for AMD because they can ill afford to compete on price. Unless they have something better on the horizon we do no know about. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaporX Posted August 22, 2012 Posted August 22, 2012 Plus nVidia might well still have two more models to release. if the scaling they have shown with the 600 series hold a $200 card from nVidia could drive AMD to the bottom. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted August 22, 2012 Posted August 22, 2012 Plus nVidia might well still have two more models to release. if the scaling they have shown with the 600 series hold a $200 card from nVidia could drive AMD to the bottom. We will know soon enough! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fogel Posted August 23, 2012 Posted August 23, 2012 At this rate the 660ti will have to drop to $250ish... XFX 7950 (core edition though) - $290 Sapphire (slight OC, better cooler) - $300 Gigabyte (good OC, good cooler) - $310 Nice move AMD! If i was in the market right now, I'd snatch that Gigabyte up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 Wow...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 (edited) At this rate the 660ti will have to drop to $250ish... XFX 7950 (core edition though) - $297.55 Sapphire (slight OC, better cooler) - $307.86 Gigabyte (good OC, good cooler) - $317.55 Nice move AMD! If i was in the market right now, I'd snatch that Gigabyte up. As most would see it At this rate the 660ti will have to drop to $250ish... XFX 7950 (core edition though) - $320.48 Sapphire (slight OC, better cooler) - $330.81 Gigabyte (good OC, good cooler) - $341.18 Nice move AMD! If i was in the market right now, I'd snatch that Gigabyte up. As NJ people like me see it Glad they're dropping prices though (and hope I didn't come off as nit-picky, I was just bored and wanted to see how bad it'd be for me and then add shipping in for the majority of you taxless bastards ) For those with Newegg tax: HIS IceQ $299.99 @ Amazon VisionTek Core Edition $299.99 @ Amazon HIS Stock Cooler $299.99 @ Amazon MSI's Twin Frozr and Gigabyte's Windforce versions are still $329.99 but if you wanted them and were taxed by newegg...it'd still be cheaper. Maybe they're start throwing some rebates in again soon since I paid $340 for my Twin Frozr but then got a $20 off so paid $320 overall Edited August 24, 2012 by IVIYTH0S Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 That's a MASSIVE price drop on the 7950s... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muchoman1 Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 (edited) At this rate the 660ti will have to drop to $250ish... XFX 7950 (core edition though) - $290 Sapphire (slight OC, better cooler) - $300 Gigabyte (good OC, good cooler) - $310 Nice move AMD! If i was in the market right now, I'd snatch that Gigabyte up. As Americans see it At this rate the 660ti will have to drop to $350ish... Sapphire (slight OC, better cooler) - $395 Gigabyte (good OC, good cooler) - $385 Nice move AMD! If i was in the market right now, I'd snatch that Gigabyte up. As Australians see it Edited August 24, 2012 by Muchoman1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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