Competition ranking;
2005; Netbyte, Karise/Denmark #1 @ PiFast
2008; AOCM II, Minfeld/Germany #2 @ 01SE/AM3/8M (w. Oliver)
2009; AMD-OC, Viborg/Denmark #2 @ max freq Gigabyte TweaKING, Paris/France #4 @ 32M/01SE (w. Vanovich)
2010: Gigabyte P55, Hamburg/Germany #6 @ wprime 1024/SPI 1M (w. THC) AOCM III, Minfeld/Germany #6 @ 01SE/AM3/1M/8M (w. NeoForce)
Spectating;
2010; GOOC 2010 Many thanks to Gigabyte!
what are they thinking there seriously
they are making it real easy for people to decide to import from USA. That's what a lot of people in Australia are now doing if they see any company trying to charge stupid pricing. Even UK ive seen ppl order from to get it quick and at better prices.
I think it is massive fail.
It is a great product, and Hicookie did a good job!
The concept is EXCELLENT...
But somewhere along the way it clearly flucked up... Dont know, and frankly; dont care if it was too expensive marketing, too expensive fluckup somewhere along the process of going from initial samples to MP.... Shift happens, but I think it blows that Gigabyte isnt just sucking it up and thinking just a tiny bit ahead...
The concept has a massive potential, we, the overclockers, worships products like this. But making the end users sucking up for the mistake that the company (Gigabyte) made might result in the entire concept will fail, it is really jeapodizing things....
It is DIRECTLY against everything that Gigabyte used to promote the product... The concept was TRIMMED PRODUCT TO BENEFIT COST AND HAVE QUALITY COMPONENTS FOR THE OVERCLOCKERS.
So now they've removed the to benefit cost from the equation....
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*It might just be a big mistake and misunderstanding, maybe the price that will reach the end users of ~590 USD will be changed ALOT.... One can only hope.
I'd say at 400 USD it is BANG FOR THE BUCK, even at 450 USD, would be cool... 349 USD would make most sense though.
I think the product is AWESOME, I almost wet my pants when I was within 30cm of the board during CeBIT this year. It is certainly NOTHING bad against the product - it is something against the way that it is being handled by management.
Competition ranking;
2005; Netbyte, Karise/Denmark #1 @ PiFast
2008; AOCM II, Minfeld/Germany #2 @ 01SE/AM3/8M (w. Oliver)
2009; AMD-OC, Viborg/Denmark #2 @ max freq Gigabyte TweaKING, Paris/France #4 @ 32M/01SE (w. Vanovich)
2010: Gigabyte P55, Hamburg/Germany #6 @ wprime 1024/SPI 1M (w. THC) AOCM III, Minfeld/Germany #6 @ 01SE/AM3/1M/8M (w. NeoForce)
Spectating;
2010; GOOC 2010 Many thanks to Gigabyte!
Screw it. I also picked one up.
Oh might be worth mentioning that I am checking on;
www.komplett.dk, matches the prices of www.komplett.se & www.komplett.no pretty well.... This is Scandinavias by far biggest IT store, and also represented outside Scandinavia; Ireland (www.komplett.ie), Holland (www.komplett.nl) & more..?
I mean, this is a serious player, not just "any" webshop, but a vast massive beast... So it is a concern if they misunderstod something along the way :-/
Competition ranking;
2005; Netbyte, Karise/Denmark #1 @ PiFast
2008; AOCM II, Minfeld/Germany #2 @ 01SE/AM3/8M (w. Oliver)
2009; AMD-OC, Viborg/Denmark #2 @ max freq Gigabyte TweaKING, Paris/France #4 @ 32M/01SE (w. Vanovich)
2010: Gigabyte P55, Hamburg/Germany #6 @ wprime 1024/SPI 1M (w. THC) AOCM III, Minfeld/Germany #6 @ 01SE/AM3/1M/8M (w. NeoForce)
Spectating;
2010; GOOC 2010 Many thanks to Gigabyte!
lol wish i could be Superman and crush the prices and make them all $1 lol mates rates
Hollyalmost 600 usd?
From the newegg they are
OC Board $419.99 including tax & shipping to me. This has $8.50 for shipping
UD5 $308.50 including tax & shipping to me. This has free 2 day shipping
Taxes in California are getting pretty high these days
This is a nice board for sure and has some very nice features and I suspose with markets these days things are costing more. UD5 is prolly stock they have had for a long time also and OC is bran new so... but over $100
I don't know, with the price of motherboards these days I am picking what I want/need pretty carefully. I used to go for boards like UD7's, but now UD5's or UD4/UD3's are doing what I need just fine.
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More & more very expensive, quickly obsolete parts!!
the absolute truth, no love on this coast and what sucks is since most of the vendors have a presence out here the consumer gets stuck with the higher price due to tax's and other fee's (lcd environmental fee anyone)
I really want this board but for $420 otd I am going to have to pass, what happened to $250 gigabyte![]()
that is crazy $30 extra just b/c you are in cali? your taxes are crazy, here in VA our tax was only 4.5% now its 5%, it used to be the lowest in the nation till a few years ago
yea man ita a great board and $g works perfect, other than it overvolts the qpi/vtt a bit, but it does get RAm upto spec!
Last edited by PcCI2iminal; 05-12-2011 at 06:07 PM.
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PcCI2iminal, nice one!
I just noticed on newegg that they've listed them as a limited edition. Would anyone know how many boards Gigabyte are making?
Hope Australia doesn't get left out!
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