don't like the cooler poor air flow
will be waiting for aftermarket cards if reviews are good
A UK e-tailer has confirmed there are only 100 cards for THE WHOLE OF THE UK and they have 44 of them. Bet I know where the other 56 are going too. They did say they've been promised more stock but not given any dates. I suppose the majority of cards will be for the good old USA. Good luck in Canada and the rest of the world.
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A retailer has no idea how many cards are available to all of the UK. All he knows is he has 44 cards coming. Retailers get their cards from one part of the supply chain (there are many branches of the supply chain), not directly from AMD. All a vendor can see, is the amount available at the time of his order placement from that one supplier out of many.
don't like the cooler poor air flow
will be waiting for aftermarket cards if reviews are good
It doesn't look that bad to me. I wouldn't be surprised if it's better than the Nvidia FE 2 fan cooler. Also it's definitely a step up from the crap blower of the past. However, aftermarket cards definitely will have better coolers.
OK so we all should believe you rather than someone who has a great reputation and works/owns at one of the UK's top e-tailersAre you not aware that AMD Direct do not ship outside of North America? For the rest of the world they are 100% reliant on their partners in the retail channel which are probably not that many.
I'm sure the two big UK e-tailers I've referred to have the same Business Development Manager with AMD and I'm sure they're saying WTF how many cards? Unless he tells them the truth about the scarcity of the cards and the fact that more are coming why would they bother selling just 44/56 cards each?
I bought my Vega 64 on the other e-tailer site by pure chance because I happened to remember they went on sale that day. The site clearly stated they only had a very limited number and once they were gone they were gone. I checked 10 minutes after my purchase and they were all gone and on pre-order. So in about 10 minutes they had sold their whole inventory.
At £700 Vega VII can stay on sale for the next two years and I won't buy one and with NV now supporting freesync monitors my GPU choices have expanded and AMD can no longer rely on my loyalty purely because of the freesync ecosystem like they did with Vega 64. Remember those blind test reviews
Going forward they are going to have to earn my money by producing competitive products at competitive prices especially as Intel are now appearing on the horizon. Long live competition.
I agree with the cooler issue. The logo should've been done differently. Half the size it is or alternately re-located. It appears like it ought to perform better than a reference Vega 64 cooler but perhaps not as well as my rog strix.
If you're going to run it at stock speeds like me then it probably will be fine. Serious overclockers would probably never use a stock cooler anyway.