TigerDirect $27 off $270, good for graphics cards

[chizow]

TigerDirect is celebrating its 27th anniversary with a corresponding $ off promotion, you need to go their site and enter your email address, after which they will send you a link that enables your coupon.

Keep in mind, this will without a doubt put you on their email list. I personally don't mind, since it alerted me to this deal.

Just enter your email address here to get the coupon link and give it a few minutes:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...ampaignid=3028

I tested it with some video cards and it worked, so while pickings are slim for the hot GPUs like 970/980, there are a few available. The coupon also works until 10/24 so you have a few more days to see if the card you want comes in stock.

Zotac AMP 980: $523
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...111&CatId=7387

Zotac AMP Extreme 970 (super custom PCB/fan) $383
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...107&CatId=7387

MSI Vanilla Blower 970 $303
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...EdpNo=9512046&

Should also work on older Nvidia GTX 700 series and AMD R9 series GPUs also.

 

[chizow]

Asus Strix 970 for $313 will prob sell out fast.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...754&CatId=7387

 

[Rvenger]

That MSI blower card is interesting. It appears to be a 980 reference PCB with the 980 reference cooler without the Titan shroud.

 

[chizow]

That MSI blower card is interesting. It appears to be a 980 reference PCB with the 980 reference cooler without the Titan shroud.

Hmm yep good catch. It does have the intake grille and also the stock backplate with 3xDP, 1xHDMI, and 1xDVI also. Too bad we can't see the backside of the card to see if it is the full PCB rather than the cut-down triscuit PCB or mostly blank PCB extension like some of the other 970s. I looked elsewhere and these look to be stock MSI photos.

Still could be a really well built card at stock price, given most of these 970s use some inferior designs and the custom ones command a big premium. I figured they would eventually make some "FTW" type cards like EVGA and Galaxy did last-gen with 670 on 680 PCBs, so I guess we are starting to see them pop up, less the NVTTM cooler.

Oh and Strix did sell out lol.

 

[Rvenger]

I can tell its a reference PCB because of the notch on the end of the PCB. (Or at least a reference design PCB.

 

[Termie]

Just FYI, that MSI card is not actually in stock at TigerDirect - and it's not clear that it ever was.

But very interesting catch about that PCB - makes it definitely worth considering.

By the way, as this sort of applies to hot deals, my educated guess is that Nvidia's board partners asked Nvidia to hold back on 970/980 GPUs in order to allow discontinued parts to clear the channel.

I don't expect the 970 to be in stock for more than a few hours at a time until at least the end of the month.

 

[chizow]

Just FYI, that MSI card is not actually in stock at TigerDirect - and it's not clear that it ever was.

But very interesting catch about that PCB - makes it definitely worth considering.

By the way, as this sort of applies to hot deals, my educated guess is that Nvidia's board partners asked Nvidia to hold back on 970/980 GPUs in order to allow discontinued parts to clear the channel.

I don't expect the 970 to be in stock for more than a few hours at a time until at least the end of the month.

It was definitely in stock earlier, had it in my cart with coupon applied. Must have sold out shortly after the Strix sold out.

I personally don't think Nvidia is holding out, the old parts are already priced to sell and will eventually run out even if more cuts are needed. Tom Petersen from Nvidia also said on PCPer's stream they made more cards than they thought they would need and they still sold out, and they are cranking them out as fast as they can.

Cards have also been coming in stock daily and selling out just as quickly. Even on launch day there were a lot of comments and observations about how demand might not be that strong for Maxwell given how long stock levels lasted for Day 1 SKUs. The reference 980 for example lasted through the entire launch weekend and it's been impossible to get since. Based on still incredibly high demand 1 month later, it looks to me like stock was exceptionally good at launch based on how long they lasted in stock, but demand has just been incredibly high.

Can see in-stock history here, people are just snatching them up as soon as they find the model they've been looking for:

http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/nvidia/gtx980/full_history.php
http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/nvidia/gtx970/full_history.php

Final piece of the puzzle is the unofficial delay of the GTX 960 until next year, which was supposed to launch this month. Some have suspected that demand for the 970/980 was so good, Nvidia no longer feels it needs to artificially neuter GM104 chips to bin down to targeted GTX 960 functional units when they are selling every 970/980 they put on the market.