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AMD officially annouces Inflation of R9 prices is over

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Is this because they're no longer as good for mining compared to other solutions?

no, they were just in such high demand that everyone was running out of stock

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Great marketing move, make a bunch of money, and then lower the prices so more people go for them again.

Truly genius 

It was resellers marking the price up...AMD makes the same money per card today as they did when they first launched.

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AMD lowers prices cuz it still doesn't have physX.

Ok maybe not but I had to do it ..

I am physX.

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it never happened in Australia P.S phisx sucks, i dont executive smoke have you seen the assassin creed and nascar demo discussing 

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It was resellers marking the price up...AMD makes the same money per card today as they did when they first launched.

 

I agree. I don't think AMD made more money from the whole price mark up, but they were selling more cards then they could produce. So they definitely benefited from it.

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I agree. I don't think AMD made more money from the whole price mark up, but they were selling more cards then they could produce. So they definitely benefited from it.

Honestly i think they'll make more now that its dropped.

specially because they "announced" that they dropped even though the prices have been getting to the market value for a little while now.

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Woot woot. nVidia doesn't need inflated prices. They have them at launch. I don't care because I will destroy your AMD cards with my 780 when... I don't know. Yay competition. Yay innovation. Yay technology. Nay terminator.

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Yay for more competition!

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So about that 280, I see it's priced right between the 760 and the 770, can I expect this to perform also around the middle of those? 

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Oh thank god, too bad prices here were never inflated anyways  :P

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i still think $500 for something that 2 200 dollar cards do better is ridiculous 

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I don't think there was any inflation in Italy, if anything you can find the 280x at around 250€ .

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Is this because they're no longer as good for mining compared to other solutions?

This. Also the prices on the more specialized mining solutions went like 50% down.

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this didnt effect me anyways

The price inflation effected anyone on both the green and red sides if they were looking for a new gpu at any point during the inflation.

If AMD cards are extremely expensive that means the compitition can justify higher prices as well.

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The price inflation effected anyone on both the green and red sides if they were looking for a new gpu at any point during the inflation.

If AMD cards are extremely expensive that means the compitition can justify higher prices as well.

nothing went up in the UK not by a single penny

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Finally!  I bet it sucks for all the people who bought card last week...  :P

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My friend just bought a 290x off of ebay for $300. I guess the mining collapse is a good thing :D 

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My friend just bought a 290x off of ebay for $300. I guess the mining collapse is a good thing :D

Yah if only they offered a card that gave me enough performance to justify replacing my 7970 :(

oh well, i'll wait another generation or two but maybe ill xfire it with a R9 card now that it wont cost me an arm and a leg.

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I knew so many people needed a leaf blower that doubled as a graphics card.

 

That's why they were so popular and were inflated/not in stock right?

If we wanted leaf blowers that doubled as graphics cards the nvidia 480 would still be extremely popular!

oh wait that was a graphics card that doubled as a hairdryer....my bad.

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If we wanted leaf blowers that doubled as graphics cards the nvidia 480 would still be extremely popular!

oh wait that was a graphics card that doubled as a hairdryer....my bad.

I think it would probably be the nvidia FX5800 ultra.

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I think it would probably be the nvidia FX5800 ultra.

FX5800 = leafblower

480 = Hairdryer

 

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