Meh. I bought a SNES from a carboot and Zelda: A Link to the Past, Mario Kart, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana and a ton of other stuff for £40 and am reliving one of the golden generations of gaming again. So using your logic, I don't know why you'd spend £160 on a Wii U TBH when you could have got all this instead.

BTW the GTX 1080 is tempting at this price.

And?

Cemu says differently.
You can't pay Mario kart [email protected], i can :stuck_out_tongue:

​how about those who spend £600 on a phone. you are right that zelda and Wii u is worth it but some people want bleeding edge 144 Hz 1440p graphics plus games a way cheaper

amazing deal

Wow I just bought a 2nd hand Wii U and Zelda BOTW for £160 and having possibly the best gaming experience Ive ever had but some PC gamers actually would buy this for almosy 3 times the price which on its own would effectively be a not very good door stop

For a third of the price you could be having the an incredible once in a lifetime experience or you could buy this and run your games at 10fps faster than what you are currently doing

Says "promo", I can only assume this was a display card

The MSI Armour GTX 1080 I posted at £425 was £30 cheaper, and although it has been fluctuating in price over the past week is still the same price as this. :wink:

Cemu says differently.
You can't pay Mario kart [email protected], i can :stuck_out_tongue:

Only came here as I wondered what could item would draw 1,080 amps and at what voltage.

Damn marketing department :smiley:

In this thread:

People feeding the troll instead of reporting him

I'm pretty sure people have misinterpreted Richard27 - he doesn't mean 10fps faster than a Wii U, he means 10fps faster when upgrading your existing GPU (e.g. GTX 970 to 1070)... he's also not being literal! It's hyperbole.

Do I jump now or wait to see what the Vega comes in at, I can't help thinking the Vega will be better value. But I have given my lad my 970 for his oculus, so I have no card at the moment and the question is, can I last 2 months. Good price

The 160 for a Wii U and zelda isn't really a good deal either. Got my wiI u for 140 4 years ago.

The Wii U architecture is ancient too. The trip core CPU is from around 2004/2005 and even then it wasn't performanthe. V

The gpu is a cut down 4850..... just.... awful.

Zelda is not worth 160..... maybe 40

PC gaming isn't a luxury and can be done on a similar budget to console gaming. However you won't get a £500 GPU in a budget build.

PC gaming is broad and should be for everyone, I pity console gamers who don't know any better. I'm willing to help anyone build their own gaming rig, budget or otherwise.

He's being facetious. Don't take the comments literally.

Actually there's little difference between the two. Basically a high end PC is just a high end console. The main difference is with high end snobbery. I've got a high end PC and ps4 pro. I sit in the same comfy chair to play them, play on the same massive screen, play them through the same home theatre and have great fun.
I play at native 4K on PC and don't understand why there's a obvious schism between console gamers and high end PC gamers.
Honestly, why would anyone spend well over a grand on a PC and then play on a tiny screen? In my living room I'd need a telescope to see a tiny 28 inch screen. Why do people have to play on screens so small that you have to have your nose pressed against the screen?
What about gamepads and keyboards. In this day and age why would people want to to use a keyboard and mouse? It's so uncomfortable
Today I played FIFA 17 and mass effect andromeda at 4K on PC. I have a very comfy ikea chair and footstool. The home theatre is cranked up and I watch sublime pictures on a big screen. I play with a wireless 360 gamepad and its sublime.
Now we have he snobby PC gamer who is hunched over a keyboard and mouse with nose pressed against a tiny screen and he's perched up on a vibrating office chair with little speakers in the arms. Yes I'm being a little naughty here. But it's all so uncomfortable.
Regardless of what medium one plays on, they are just games.
Only around 8% of gamers have high end setups according to steam surveys.
The rest play on set ups that will struggle to match the ps4 pro in terms of graphics.
It's just a game. The so called high end PC gamers embrace the latest technology whilst at the same time their gaming style is rooted in a different century.
There's much difference between consoles and PC . Not really. Some just have better graphics and others have worse.

Sorry I forgot to mention those high end PC rigs with all the silly flashing led lights.
Why would anyone want a Xmas PC rig. I've turned the silly lights off.
I'm astonished How many serious product reviews mention the childish light show.
How can anyone look down their nose at a console when they have Blackpool illuminations on their games machine.

​Agree with you completely!

So the *PROMO* is: Zotac GTX 1080 AMP Edition - £455.99 for 24 hours only. The offer ends on 17th March at 9:00 AM.

Now apparently, at some point today, there will be another *PROMO* on the Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming.

The Zotac GTX 1080 AMP Edition was originally £499.99 reduced to £455.99 for this sale. The Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming is £529.99 and I quote "For those who miss out on this tomorrow we shall do a deal on the Gigabyte G1 1080 which shall also crush all competitors in the UK."

Amazon as well as many others has priced the Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming at £499.99. So with that in mind, it SHOULD be lower than £499.99. I don't think it'll beat the Zotac's price of £455.99 though.

Not much difference between them either.

Zotac GTX 1080 AMP Edition (2 Fans):

Core Clock: 1683MHz
Boost Clock: 1822MHz
Memory: 8192MB 10010MHz GDDR5X

Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming (3 Fans):

Core Clock: 1721MHz
Boost Clock: 1860MHz
Memory: 8192MB 10000MHz GDDR5X

I don't know if 3 fans instead of 2 makes much difference

I always find it hilarious how these forums reacts to obvious trolling.

If someone doesn't understand why people would pay more for a nice meal when pot noodles are perfectly sufficient, then it's completely their loss.

NVidia are worried, look at all the price reductions and the price of the 1080ti. I need a 4k card, so a 1080 will only just do, I am thinking from the demos that the Vega will split the 1080 and 1080ti, so it could be a sweet spot depending on the price.
I prefer NVidia, but welcome the chance to encourage competition, which will benefit us all. So if I can WAIT and the Vega is about the same price/performance they may get my money.

This one has expired.

This is their next PROMO: http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/gigabyte-gtx-1080-g1-gaming-rgb-2637830

In your opinion. You find Mouse and Keyboard to be uncomfortable whilst I find them ENTIRELY superior to controllers in every single way, be it button mapping, mechanical keys, ergonomic rests, quick mouse button access, even the scroll on a mouse to change weapon is much much easier than having to press another key to scroll through 'last' weapon that the consoles often offer.
Also your idea of a 'snobby PC gamer' is factually incorrect. Most high end PC gamers are playing on 28inch+ 144hz Monitors with comfortable gaming chairs and top of the range 7.1 sound headsets with sound blaster cards. I also find it EXTREMELY unlikely that only 8% of PC gamers have a high end rig when you consider the minimum requirements of latest titles like Mass Effect Andromeda.

Nobody is 'hunched over' watching on 'tiny screens' and I would be surprised to find that ANYBODY uses a vibrating chair.

We could all downplay the other half - watch:

Who would want to sit on a 6 year old couch with bits of old pizza stuffed between the cushions, whilst holding an uncomfortably large and greasy controller, listening to tinny TV sound on a 60hz refresh rate TV with upscaled picture quality, and running at peasantry 60hz at 1080p, most likely 30 Frames.

Also. Your argument about the PS4 Pro is absolutely laughable, The PS4 Pro's GPU is comparable AT BEST to entry level gaming cards such at GTX 970 and AMD RX480 which can both be picked up for less than £150.

Your entire argument is that there isn't much difference between console gaming and PC gaming but you are massively, massively, wrong.

Again you buy the hype. Look at the 1800X. Before the embargoes were lifted on the performance of it we had all these paid shills telling us how it was 20% better than a 6900k then when the actual reality hit it was nothing of the sort. In fact all the gaming press could say was how disappointed the reality was vs the hypothetical benchmarks put out by AMD.

Vega will be exactly the same. From now till May it will be a series of carefully planned tests which show it in the best light possible. I even saw a ridiculous story that it supposedly outperforms a GTX 1080 by 35% 'in early tests' even a 1080 TI struggles to do that and its effectively a (very slightly) cut down Titan X Pascal.

What we can say right now with confidence given how AMD works is that it will be more power hungry and cheaper than the green team but it wont be better.

And as a gamer you will know what the first rule of PC gaming is. You buy the best every time.

I'm sorry I don't see how you can debunk anyone's argument when you are claiming that a GTX 970 and RX480 are 'entry level cards'. Now if you had said a 1050 TI and an RX 470 then maybe you would have had a point (although I'd call them mid range myself) but you are calling 2 cards that are both £200+ and almost £300 in the case of the 970 entry level cards.

Where are you looking exactly? I have a GTX970 currently and I paid £175 for it, about 8 months ago, I'm just waiting on Vega. Which overpriced shop are you looking in? the 970 is so old that most online retailers don't even sell it anymore. the performance of a 970 is incredibly lackluster. I'm not sure how you could say it was anything but entry level when a 980 literally outperforms by 50%

Also a quick Google search confirms RX480 is already below £150 whilst being comparably entry level to the GTX970

Ryzen has lived up to expectations and anyone who thinks it hasn't is a fool.

Ryzen 1700 for 329 oc to 4ghz keeps up with a 6900k. Yes the 7700k ipc is higher due to frequency but so what? Anyone in the market for a cpu with 8 cores is doing more than just gaming- and if they aren't then they are a fool with their money.

Your comparing a Ferrari to a tank - you're playing top trumps..... anyone with a brain knows how pointless this is to do.

Yep, you just keep telling yourself that.

Then keep believing its a conspiracy from Intel, Microsoft and all the software companies to keep AMD down by failing to optimise the multi core setup of the AMD chipset as AMD have been blaming everyone and anyone for years.

And if you are talking about gaming sweet spots then its an i5 all the way. Or of course everyone who buys one of these CPUs will be a heavy video editing buff and do a lot of multi core processing as well. I forgot that.

95% of people who will buy one of these CPUs will be buying it for one thing and thats gaming.

And in gaming it does not live up to the initial hype when compared to the Intel processors. The gaming press cannot ALL be wrong can they?

You're actually insane. I have no need to make up a fantasy about a 970. If I was going to make a fantasy argument I'd say that I have a GTX 1080TI, not a card that is about 7 generations old. My GTX 970 cost me £175, bought in about June/July last year, around the same time that the 980Ti's starting really taking over the market.

Also why would a brand new at the time card be considered lacklustre, this was an argument of relevance... The GTX 970 is no longer a relevant card when compared with modern GPU's so as of right now, the card is heavily Lacklustre, losing out to about 6 generations worth of cards.

Grow up.

*yawn* whatever troll, here's 10p, go call someone who cares what you have to say.... just mind to take off the tin foil hat before you do.

7 Generations? Wait....what?

It goes 9xx, 9xxTi, 10xx, 10xxTi So I make that 3 generations back myself or 4 generations ago. How the hell you make that 7 generations I will never know.

And the GTX 970 will still eat everything you throw at it today at 1080p so your point is a lot like your counting skills.

Oh and btw, throwing out insults by calling someone insane over a bit of plastic....is,well...insane, really.