prices on the gtx580???

[pansertjald]

so i was about to order a MSI gtx580 Twin Frozr II card for a friend of mine, when i saw the new price on the card....... 546 euros WHAT??. they where normaly at 440 euros.
http://www.edbpriser.dk/Product/Deta...px?pid=4925359 DK Kr. 4333 = 577 euros.......... found one card for 546 euros

theye have gone up in price with about 100 - 150 euros here in denmark, depending on where you buy it........ how are the price in your countries??


i took a look at the cards from other brands and its the same with them........... only brand with the normal price is the DirectCU II cards from Asus, but he doesn`t want them..... he thinks they are to big and ugly (wich they are)

[vesseblah]

i took a look at the cards from other brands and its the same with them........... only brand with the normal price is the DirectCU II cards from Asus, but he doesn`t want them..... he thinks they are to big and ugly (wich they are)

Asus DCU cards have probably second-best custom coolers after MSI (which is partially explained by the size).

If aesthetics go over practicality, your friend probably needs to start using on-board integrated GPUs then or get a case without silly transparent sides. With 130€ price difference your friend can buy a new case and the Asus card, and still pay less than any other brand.

[Deleted]

Also you can now get a 7970 for slightly less than the 580 you linked MSI R7970

As i see it there are quite a few lower than the price you mention:

http://www.edbpriser.dk/Search/Produ...mp;s=igeneric4

MSI N580GTX Twin Frozr II

[inux94]

Panser, it's due to import taxes.

Yes it's bad they are so expensive in Denmark, I'm wondering where the extra 1-1.5k extra goes when a person orders cards at that price.

Much like the Asus G74 costs $1355 (7890kr) in the US store while it costs 14-16.000kr (2747 USD) in Denmark.

Everything is more expensive in Denmark, I'm unsure why. It definately can't be import taxes alone.

[Drunkenvalley]

Everything is more expensive in Denmark, I'm unsure why. It definately can't be import taxes alone.

VAT and import tax can make the price a lot higher, but then the stores also grab a margin of profit on top of that.

The latter is sometimes fucking ridiculous to be fair, but sometimes they are actually quite close to reality. I looked into ordering a TJ07, but only found a TJ11. After some checking around, I found the TJ11 cost exactly the same in that store as it would cost to have it shipped.

[Deleted]

Everything is more expensive in Europe unfortunately compared to the US due to import taxes. You can't use currency converters and expect to get the same price as in the US. The card you are looking at, with that price, corresponds to around a $480 price-tag in the US.

[pansertjald]

well we ended up ordering this XFX Radeon HD 7970 3GB Duel fan and then he will order one more in 2 months

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I know that the price is higher in denmark because of tax......... the point is that in december the lightning card only cost 493 euros, but now it cost 577 euros?
I even remeber that komplett.dk had them for 450 euros. that was when i order one, wich came as DOA, and was then out of stock, so i had to go with the gigabyte winforce3 card

Thats the thing i don`t understand. why has the prices gone up on the gtx580? when we now have the 7970 wich is a faster and better card?

When i got my gigabyte gtx580 cards they cost 426 euros..... now they cost 489 euros from the same place

[BicycleMafioso]

Asus DCU cards have probably second-best custom coolers after MSI (which is partially explained by the size).

If aesthetics go over practicality, your friend probably needs to start using on-board integrated GPUs then or get a case without silly transparent sides. With 130€ price difference your friend can buy a new case and the Asus card, and still pay less than any other brand.

I'm starting to reevaluate my opinion on this. Gigabyte's Windforce, especially the triple-fan versions are better than the Direct Cu II, in my opinion, while not covering as many slots either.
And the KFA2 Anarchy (with Accelero Xtreme from Arctic) is obviously better than even MSI, by quite a fair margin as well.

[Deleted]

Doesn't the KFA2 Anarchy take up about the same space as the Direct CUII tripple slot card? Sure, the bracket is only 2 slots, but the fans are fairly thick. Imo, making it worse than the MSI Twin Frozr cards (at least in that regard). I do agree though that the Gigabyte Windforce 3-fan cooler is one of the better options, but I've heard that it can be fairly loud (even more than the Twin Frozr cooler, which is to little surprise I guess as it has 3 fans as opposed to the TF's 2).

For SLI, I'd probably put a Gigabyte Windforce or a MSI Twin Frozr as the top card and the KFA2 Anarchy as the bottom card (given that there is sufficient space).

[BicycleMafioso]

Doesn't the KFA2 Anarchy take up about the same space as the Direct CUII tripple slot card? Sure, the bracket is only 2 slots, but the fans are fairly thick. Imo, making it worse than the MSI Twin Frozr cards (at least in that regard). I do agree though that the Gigabyte Windforce 3-fan cooler is one of the better options, but I've heard that it can be fairly loud (even more than the Twin Frozr cooler, which is to little surprise I guess as it has 3 fans as opposed to the TF's 2).

For SLI, I'd probably put a Gigabyte Windforce or a MSI Twin Frozr as the top card and the KFA2 Anarchy as the bottom card (given that there is sufficient space).

2.5 slots, actually, which gives sufficient breathing room. As far as I can tell, it is also that much ahead of the TwinFrozr in cooling.

Windforce? Loud? While I've only tried with the dual-fan, it was as loud on 100% as my DirectCu II gets on 50% :P I could agree that the three-fan might possibly be louder than the TwinFrozr. Possibly. I've only tried the 560 Ti version of the TwinFrozr II, and that was louder at 100%, but in all seriousness, excepting Djinni, who runs them in 100%?

[Deleted]

Well, I think it's a bit unfair to compare the fans at 100%; rather compare them at load (for my card, even with the overclock, the fans runs at 60-65%).

And you stand corrected (^^), the KFA2 Anarchy is just 3 slots thick. I made a nice illustration for you tetris:


Which honestly, if it wasn't ahead of the TF2 cooler with that cooling space it would be very poor.