Palit GeForce RTX 4080 GameRock 16GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card - £1099.99 + £10.50 delivery @ Overclockers

Thanks mate

The problem with this card is that people like you deem it bad because BZ says so, while completely ignoring the fact that he's always going to be hard on cards that are cost-optimised because his focus is on extreme overclocking and thus he literally needs cards that are built like tanks so that they don't blow up when he shoves stupid volts through them under LN2. The thing is though, most consumers aren't going to overclock the card they buy anywhere near that level, so they don't need it to be built like a tank... which means that for most consumers, BZ's overly-harsh reviews are completely worthless and should not be used as any sort of guidance on what to buy and what not to. In fact I'd argue he's having a negative effect on the market because by constantly berating manufacturers for cost-downing to make their cards reach acceptable price levels, he's effectively forcing them to build cards using better components... which, guess what, costs money, so the cards become ever-more expensive.

The exact same thing already happened with motherboards. Most boards today could get away with 8-phase VRMs and a single EPS12V input and that would easily handle all but the most extreme CPUs and overclocks, but about a decade ago reviewers started berating motherboard manufacturers for having lower phase counts than their competitors, with the result that even low-end boards started shipping with 10 or more phases and an extra EPS12V connector. Completely useless and irrelevant overbuilding to 99% of consumers, but as a result boards now cost £50 more for functionality that that 99% will never require. But we all get to pay that extra, unnecessary tax because MOAR PHASES BETTAR (which, if you've been following along, is one of the things that BZ keeps harping on about on GPUs).

Now don't get me wrong, I'm all in favour of higher-quality products that last longer, but designing and manufacturing better products invariably costs more and that cost is always passed on to the consumer.

I had a palit card and overchargers wouldn't help either. Called trading standards and threatened OC with small claims court and they suddenly got a lot more interested

AMD is getting there but still not neck-a-neck with nvidia yet.- do you mean AMD being 2nd in the race at ripping off cnsumers?

I remember getting a 3080 at launch for 660..literally a few seconds after purchasing they increased the price to 720-730 lol

Mine still went through at 660

Fingers crossed mate

4080ti should be close to 4090 performance for this price, probably have to wait until summer or later.

as the years go there is more and more fun Lol

Stare at their Steam, Gamepass, Epic, Gog and UPlay library for ages wondering what to play ….. and then end up watching YouTube videos instead …. Just like I do (but at least I didn’t spend this kind of money to do that

IMHO if you got a 3070 at msrp you made a mistake going for 4080 as this is an actual downgrade if you consider price to performance. Now if you made your money back with 3070 mining as many did that’s a whole different story

This is what I'm saying bro. The prices of AMD's card is similar to the pricing for the 4080 so honestly may as well get the 4080 because it uses slightly less power under load, better idle power, better drivers, support and functions, far superior Ray Tracing. Basically identical performance on rasterisation and I believe the faster GDDR6X memory will future proof it that little bit longer depending on your setup. I have a 1440p 165hz which imo the difference between 2k and 4k on a 27inch screen is negligible as well as a 1080p 280hz screen for eSports. Before you start the 4080 is a 4k card, I just wanted the highest frame rates possible as I have competed in the past but more of a casual nowadays. I have a Ryzen 5 7600x and I'll be upgrading to the 3D cache CPUs next year. Also the 4080 will probably support 2k on the latest titles for the next 5+ years easily. I will probably upgrade before then but at least I am not forced to if I don't want to.

Nah, screw em