Really nice looking girl , a little young but thanks! anyways , Steevo
YOU DON'T KNOW
KRISTIN KREUK??
Blasphemy!!
Torches... Check.
Rope... Check.
Tall tree with strong branches... Check...
Oh, man! You better start running now...
On topic,
@Steevo
Your card is OCed a 25% and it's 10% faster than the GTX470 on the pic. That means that the stock clocked GTX470 is probably somewhere between 5-10% faster than the HD5870. Your CPU is much higher clocked too and you are comparing a mature driver set with 6+ months of optimization after release versus pre-release drivers... How can you try to draw any conclusions?
@Price
GTX480
$450
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18072/1/
you must be dreaming they're still selling the 285 for more than that!
That's due to the general shortage of GPUs. I saw them selling for $275 in the past (lower with rebates), and they should be lower than that under normal conditions. Just like GTX260 is selling for almost $200 now, but 6 months ago they were selling as low as $140. Just like the HD5870 could be bought for $375 at launch (very first batch) and now there's none below $420 on Newegg.
Also the GTX4xx series are far cheaper to produce than GTX2xx series, despite all the crap that you might have heard. That means that GTX480 costs less than GTX285 to produce, so it could essentially release for the same price and have better margins (of course it won't because they want to recover R&D, but a $600 price tag is not necessary at all). What I just said is not 100% true at the moment, but it will soon become 100% true right after launch due to higher volumes, and prices are chosen based on how much it will cost to produce when the card has been released, not on pre-release costs.
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