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Ngel wroteI am getting some Gigabyte 1080's by next week if anyone is interested.
Final price isn't fixed yet, but should be around 610-620$
Final price in lebanon or abroad? If final price in lebanon, I'm interested.
silo_m8 wrote
Ngel wroteI am getting some Gigabyte 1080's by next week if anyone is interested.
Final price isn't fixed yet, but should be around 610-620$
Final price in lebanon or abroad? If final price in lebanon, I'm interested.
My bet that the pricings will start at 700$ and abroad (amazon/newegg), when it will arrive into our market expect 200$+ price difference in the first couple of months
vegetaleb wrote
Johnaudi wroteIf you crossfire the two new AMDs it will be a total of 400$ and it will outrange the 1080. I just love these wars between Nvidia and AMD.
Nvidia went too far with their pricings, they think they have the monopoly of the market but ATI can do a difference like back in 4850 times...
The RX 480 is disruptive af. It offers R9 Nano performance (before overclocking) and 4GB of VRAM for $200 (or 8GB of VRAM for $230), meanwhile the GTX 1070 offers 980 Ti performance and 8GB of VRAM for $370, the 480 delivers nearly 80-85% of the 1070's performance for $170 (for the 4GB version) or $140 (for the 8GB version) cheaper.

Nvidia is in a pretty precarious position, as a GTX 1060 that matches the RX 480 will cut deeply into the sales of the 1070.
silo_m8 wrote
Ngel wroteI am getting some Gigabyte 1080's by next week if anyone is interested.
Final price isn't fixed yet, but should be around 610-620$
Final price in lebanon or abroad? If final price in lebanon, I'm interested.
Final price. Just waiting final confirmation and i'll tell you guys the exact price, but it should be around the 620's
Die_Kapitan wrote
vegetaleb wrote
Johnaudi wroteIf you crossfire the two new AMDs it will be a total of 400$ and it will outrange the 1080. I just love these wars between Nvidia and AMD.
Nvidia went too far with their pricings, they think they have the monopoly of the market but ATI can do a difference like back in 4850 times...
The RX 480 is disruptive af. It offers R9 Nano performance (before overclocking) and 4GB of VRAM for $200 (or 8GB of VRAM for $230), meanwhile the GTX 1070 offers 980 Ti performance and 8GB of VRAM for $370, the 480 delivers nearly 80-85% of the 1070's performance for $170 (for the 4GB version) or $140 (for the 8GB version) cheaper.

Nvidia is in a pretty precarious position, as a GTX 1060 that matches the RX 480 will cut deeply into the sales of the 1070.

I great with you , so what do you think to go with 480x Cross Fire (real benchmarks will show the real comparative performance compared to a single 1080) , or stick with a single 1070OC or 1080 Oc , or wait for a 1080Ti and what Vega will offer , I suspect HBM 2.0 will witness a release this year even in Vega.
Ngel wrote
silo_m8 wrote
Ngel wroteI am getting some Gigabyte 1080's by next week if anyone is interested.
Final price isn't fixed yet, but should be around 610-620$
Final price in lebanon or abroad? If final price in lebanon, I'm interested.
Final price. Just waiting final confirmation and i'll tell you guys the exact price, but it should be around the 620's

Negal Dude,

Which Gibabyte GTX 1080 (the G1 Gaming , Xtreme Gaming , or the Reference) and does your source provide a full year warranty on the 1080. I am interested to here further details.
Tech Guru wrote
Die_Kapitan wrote
vegetaleb wrote
Nvidia went too far with their pricings, they think they have the monopoly of the market but ATI can do a difference like back in 4850 times...
The RX 480 is disruptive af. It offers R9 Nano performance (before overclocking) and 4GB of VRAM for $200 (or 8GB of VRAM for $230), meanwhile the GTX 1070 offers 980 Ti performance and 8GB of VRAM for $370, the 480 delivers nearly 80-85% of the 1070's performance for $170 (for the 4GB version) or $140 (for the 8GB version) cheaper.

Nvidia is in a pretty precarious position, as a GTX 1060 that matches the RX 480 will cut deeply into the sales of the 1070.

I great with you , so what do you think to go with 480x Cross Fire (real benchmarks will show the real comparative performance compared to a single 1080) , or stick with a single 1070OC or 1080 Oc , or wait for a 1080Ti and what Vega will offer , I suspect HBM 2.0 will witness a release this year even in Vega.
I'd wait for Vega. While dual RX 480's offer great bang-for-buck as you can pick up two 8GB versions for $460 (you're looking at around $550~$600 in Lebanon), but, while DX12 and Vulkan promise much better compatibility and performance for dual-GPU solutions, they still come with some cons, like higher power usage (not really an issue with Polaris since they only sip power, but 300W isn't somethings that can be ignored either) and compatibility issues in old games, indie games and very new games (you may have to wait a week or so to be able to use CF/SLI). The GTX 1080 is overpriced for what you get and the GTX 1070 is a bit pointless since you can get 80-85% of its performance for slightly north of half the price by going with a 480. Vega will surely have a GPU that beats the 1070 and 1080 in performance (RTG are doimg the same as Polaris with Vega, two GPUs and each has two cards featuring it, but the less powerful Vega GPU won't be strictly for laptops like Polaris 11) and will force Nvidia to lower the prices of the 1080 and 1070 to be able to competent, so you'll have a wider range of video cards to choose from if you wait for Vega (which according to rumors is coming out with Zen in October). Hynix are ahead of schedule with their production of HBM2 that's why we may see an early Vega, GDDR5X wasn't supposed to be launched until August, but Micron were ahead of schedule which allowed Nvidia to launch the 1080 with GDDR5X instead of GDDR5, and RTG won't have make all Vega cards only HBM2 (Vega 11 will likely have GDDR5X memory and Vega 10 will have HBM2 memory) which lowers the supply issue.

EDIT: RTG might be announcing, the RX 470 and RX 480X at E3, as during Computex they said the Polaris price range is $100-$300 and the RX 480 is $200 so they'll most likely announce a competitor for the 1070 (or 1060 Ti, maybe?) and a competitor for the 1050.
Here's a question, why are all the cards on Amazon etc all FOUNDER'S EDITION?!

Seriously, I want to order one and have a friend bring with him, but seriously, I can't find the standards, NON FOUNDER's edition model! Am i missing something? Are they not released yet?
I'm rocking a GTX980.

Is it worth going for the 1080 or better wait for 1080ti? I don't mind waiting an extra few months.

The 980 is a 1080P killer, but suffers on 2K.
MrClass wroteI'm rocking a GTX980.

Is it worth going for the 1080 or better wait for 1080ti? I don't mind waiting an extra few months.

The 980 is a 1080P killer, but suffers on 2K.
At the very least wait for Vega, the 1080 is overpriced for what you get, just like the last two x80's were until AMD released their new cards (although the 980 continued to be overpriced), Vega 10 will surely beat the 1080 by a fair margin which means you can go with Vega 10 instead of waiting for the 1080 Ti as at worst it'll be 5% slower which will make the 1080 Ti not worth the wait. Just my two cents (damn! my thoughts are cheap)
Vega should offer 2x perf over polaris. and if they keep same price structure, it will cost less than 700$
15 days later
I see pcandparts now have evga 1080 and 1070 founders edition, I do hope they get some custom cards and the RX 480 when it releases soon.
Raficoo wroteI see pcandparts now have evga 1080 and 1070 founders edition, I do hope they get some custom cards and the RX 480 when it releases soon.
Not too overpriced relative to their price in the US (still overpriced for what you're getting)
Raficoo wroteI see pcandparts now have evga 1080 and 1070 founders edition, I do hope they get some custom cards and the RX 480 when it releases soon.

I will be waiting for Custom 1070s mainly the EVGA (FTW) or Gigabyte (G1 or Xtreme). The custom a bit cheaper compared to Founder Ed. , cooled better and Oc'd out of the box.


There is also a fan issue associated with the Founder Edition

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-fan-issues-fix/

Knowing that:

MSI and Asus accused of sending reviewers overpowered graphics cards

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/21/11986836/msi-asus-overclocked-graphics-cards-review

448 (for the Founder Ed. at PC&Parts)*1.1(VAT) + 5(Shipment) = 542 USD for the GTX 1070 delivered to you door step in Lebanon , is a good price , and I guess by this price the 980Ti frankly is RIP for present of future investments.
Tech Guru wrote
Raficoo wroteI see pcandparts now have evga 1080 and 1070 founders edition, I do hope they get some custom cards and the RX 480 when it releases soon.

I will be waiting for Custom 1070s mainly the EVGA (FTW) or Gigabyte (G1 or Xtreme). The custom a bit cheaper compared to Founder Ed. , cooled better and Oc'd out of the box.


There is also a fan issue associated with the Founder Edition

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-fan-issues-fix/

Knowing that:

MSI and Asus accused of sending reviewers overpowered graphics cards

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/21/11986836/msi-asus-overclocked-graphics-cards-review

448 (for the Founder Ed. at PC&Parts)*1.1(VAT) + 5(Shipment) = 542 USD for the GTX 1070 delivered to you door step in Lebanon , is a good price , and I guess by this price the 980Ti frankly is RIP for present of future investments.
Apparently prices need some time to settle, currently almost all custom 1070s and 1080s are sold with same price or more than the Founder Edition, we will see what will happen to the prices after a month.

I read the theverge article, I can't see anything wrong with what MSI did, they've set the OC mode of their gaming app by default for review samples, their gaming app is labeled on the box, any user could see it and know about it.

Update: I just saw it, Macrotronics has listed the MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X for 950$
http://www.macrotronics.net/product_info.php/msi-graphics-card-geforce-gtx1080-gaming-gddr5x-8g-dedicated-with-rgb-colors-p-10692
anayman_k7 wrote
Tech Guru wrote
Raficoo wroteI see pcandparts now have evga 1080 and 1070 founders edition, I do hope they get some custom cards and the RX 480 when it releases soon.

I will be waiting for Custom 1070s mainly the EVGA (FTW) or Gigabyte (G1 or Xtreme). The custom a bit cheaper compared to Founder Ed. , cooled better and Oc'd out of the box.


There is also a fan issue associated with the Founder Edition

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-fan-issues-fix/

Knowing that:

MSI and Asus accused of sending reviewers overpowered graphics cards

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/21/11986836/msi-asus-overclocked-graphics-cards-review

448 (for the Founder Ed. at PC&Parts)*1.1(VAT) + 5(Shipment) = 542 USD for the GTX 1070 delivered to you door step in Lebanon , is a good price , and I guess by this price the 980Ti frankly is RIP for present of future investments.
Apparently prices need some time to settle, currently almost all custom 1070s and 1080s are sold with same price or more than the Founder Edition, we will see what will happen to the prices after a month.

I read the theverge article, I can't see anything wrong with what MSI did, they've set the OC mode of their gaming app by default for review samples, their gaming app is labeled on the box, any user could see it and know about it.

Update: I just saw it, Macrotronics has listed the MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X for 950$
http://www.macrotronics.net/product_info.php/msi-graphics-card-geforce-gtx1080-gaming-gddr5x-8g-dedicated-with-rgb-colors-p-10692

That is Very Expensive indeed , and I do not know how this time PC&Parts did not put their hand on any custom one. By the pay Special Order form PC&Parts needs 25 Days to arrive + a 40% down payment. I think a 1070OC is the way I will go.
Well well new update, Massdrop just listed the MSI GTX1070 Gaming X, if it drops to the lowest it will be 430$ + 27$ shipping to Lebanon, around 460$ delivered to your door BUT the estimated ship date is Aug 2, 2016 so it will arrive around the end of August, my guess even at the end of August there will be no Lebanese store with custom GTX1070 at this low price, even if it was sold for 380$ on Amazon it will cost more with taxes + shipping + customs.
I only tested Massdrop with a Mionix mouse where it arrived with no extra cost at all, I only paid the mouse price + massdrop shipping, it was delivered by Libanpost to my door.

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/msi-geforce-gtx-1070-gaming-x-8g?utm_placement=0&referer=4R3YRU&mode=guest_open&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Automated%20Daily%20Promotional%202016-06-24&utm_term=Daily%20Promotional
anayman_k7 wroteWell well new update, Massdrop just listed the MSI GTX1070 Gaming X, if it drops to the lowest it will be 430$ + 27$ shipping to Lebanon, around 460$ delivered to your door BUT the estimated ship date is Aug 2, 2016 so it will arrive around the end of August, my guess even at the end of August there will be no Lebanese store with custom GTX1070 at this low price, even if it was sold for 380$ on Amazon it will cost more with taxes + shipping + customs.
I only tested Massdrop with a Mionix mouse where it arrived with no extra cost at all, I only paid the mouse price + massdrop shipping, it was delivered by Libanpost to my door.

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/msi-geforce-gtx-1070-gaming-x-8g?utm_placement=0&referer=4R3YRU&mode=guest_open&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Automated%20Daily%20Promotional%202016-06-24&utm_term=Daily%20Promotional
this works when the item value isn't considerable, below 200$ i guess... if its above, ud pay VAT and Customs and everything
10 days later
Any Body Coming or Know Some One Coming from the United States I need a 1080 or a 1070 (not reference or founder edition)
Gigabyte G1 Gaming
Asus Strix
EVGA FTW edition
Zotac AMP! Extreme
or
Last Choice: MSI Gaming
PM to make a deal.
Thank You
can't find any comparisons between founders edition and the aftermarket ones, do you guys know any?