We have not had any deals for a while now, any spectacular prices on EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 (any model) at the moment?
I never understand how people know this, but when is the video card market expected to have its next price drop…
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 - Best Deal?
Gunther on 24/10/2016 - 09:52
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You find that GPU's actually start with prices above RRP on launch, and maintain that until AIB's release their units in acceptable quantities.
Once the market availability improves with the Reference/Founders and AIB's cards it drops to RRP and stays there for a while.
Then after a couple months, you get some discounts, deals, and bargains happening with the AIBs.
And from then on, most cards are priced just below the RRP for a good time.
And as the days go by, you see these cards getting cheaper naturally and see more deals pop up.
They hit a sort of equilibrium for a good portion of time.
Then Nvidia announces their date for the unveiling of the next-gen cards, and current stock decreases in price for the anticipation.
After the unveiling, and after the new Founders editions are shipping, and after the AIBs start shipping their units…you find the old-gen retailing much cheaper.
Once some discounts start trickling down to AIBs, the old-gen stock gets exhausted, so their prices actually increase a bit.
And eventually the stocks of new-gen improves and we have acceptable quantities.
After this date, you still find the old-gen retailing… but those are the last of the stock, and now they're a decent 1-2 years old and will eventually fade out.We're at the 4th-to-5th stage now.
However, that is the market for USA and Canada.
UK follows somewhat slowly/lagging behind their trend.
And lagging behind UK is West-Europe (France, Germany, etc etc).
Australia lags even further behind Europe, and in-line with markets that aren't of concern to AMD/Intel.
Poor New Zealand is further back.…maybe hit up Lyl/Nocure, they might find you a decent discount that's shipping in from overseas.
There was a deal on them for $820 recently - best I have seen so far on the EVGAs. They also ran out of stock of the standard model in that deal and sent me the next model up :)
Just read these EVGA cards are having some MAJOR issues:
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-1070-evga-cards-dying/
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