{"id":30777,"date":"2012-01-16T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30777"},"modified":"2012-01-16T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:22:35","slug":"more-radeon-hd7970-sa-price-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/30777-more-radeon-hd7970-sa-price-points","title":{"rendered":"More Radeon HD7970 SA price points"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we reported on the first local Radeon HD7970 prices. We spotted a Sapphire HD7970 for R7,933 on Prophecy.co.za, which is expensive enough to nauseate even the most die-hard PC<\/a> enthusiast.<\/p>\n

AMD<\/a> South Africa\u2019s sales manager Jaco Laubscher assured us that prices will come down as availability increases.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach distributor is doing their own thing based on demand and pricing is still way higher than I would like. Recommended retail price should be around R7,399,\u201d said Laubscher.<\/p>\n

Prophecy.co.za\u2019s Paul Johnston echoed Laubscher, saying \u201cThat is an official price, although I think it will go down over time. The big price drop will be as we get more brands available – I’m expecting the cheapest cards to be in the R6,000 – R6,400 range.\u201d<\/p>\n

More cards, lower prices<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thankfully, we are already seeing this start to happen, and Prophecy has increased its stock on the HD7970 range by adding the Club 3D HD7970, which is selling for a more palatable R6,478.<\/p>\n

Landmark PC is also now selling HD7970’s, and has the Sapphire card for R7,245. They also have the Club 3D HD7970 in stock for R6,154, making it the most affordable place to buy the card in SA right now.<\/p>\n

Landmark also has the Asus version of the card for R7,998, as well as the XFX version for R7,755.<\/p>\n

The card\u2019s recommended retail price in the USA is $550 (R4,491).<\/p>\n

Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

AMD Radeon 7970 SA pricing emerges <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

AMD Eyefinity 2.0 technology detailed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

AMD ZeroCore Technology <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

AMD 7900 technology preview <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We find the cheapest HD7970 in SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":30778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,3],"tags":[1051,1878,21,1984,1983,1985,1982],"class_list":["post-30777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-amd","tag-amd-hd7900-series","tag-headline","tag-jaco-laubscher","tag-landmark-pc","tag-paul-johnston","tag-prophecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30846,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions\/30846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}