- Aug 24, 2014
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Having a look over the price trends on PCpartPicker here: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ and it seems that prices have been pretty stagnant overall for a while. Rams gone up a bit in places, storage has very slightly gone down, some price drops a while back for GPUs and CPUs. The Nvidia 900 series is coming out sometime in the next 6 months probably and the new Intel Broadwell CPUs are coming out in the same sorta time frame.
When this happens will we see big price cuts in current hardware? lets take my new MSi 780 for example, I just got it for £340, expensive and not exactly the most cost effective... here is a link to it's price trend: option.http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/#gpu.chipset.geforce-gtx-780 we can see that it started out about £400, had a big price cut in November 2013 and has stayed about £320-360 since. That's a decent amount shaved off the price but it's not exactly amazing for a GPU that's now a year and a half old IMHO.
It just seems strange to me to have a big price drop so soon into it's release, 5 months, then to have basically nothing for a whole year. Have I just played the sucker and bought my 780 on the precipice of a huge price drop or do you people think It's all good.
I understand PC prices are always dropping, I was just shocked to see how stagnant the prices have been for the past year. Maybe it's because the only market I'm really used to is gaming markets where new items have massive prices changes and this gaming market doesn't reflect reality lol.
When this happens will we see big price cuts in current hardware? lets take my new MSi 780 for example, I just got it for £340, expensive and not exactly the most cost effective... here is a link to it's price trend: option.http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/#gpu.chipset.geforce-gtx-780 we can see that it started out about £400, had a big price cut in November 2013 and has stayed about £320-360 since. That's a decent amount shaved off the price but it's not exactly amazing for a GPU that's now a year and a half old IMHO.
It just seems strange to me to have a big price drop so soon into it's release, 5 months, then to have basically nothing for a whole year. Have I just played the sucker and bought my 780 on the precipice of a huge price drop or do you people think It's all good.
I understand PC prices are always dropping, I was just shocked to see how stagnant the prices have been for the past year. Maybe it's because the only market I'm really used to is gaming markets where new items have massive prices changes and this gaming market doesn't reflect reality lol.
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