AMD Responds to GeForce GTX 260 Price-Cuts, Prepares its Own

[Skillz]

darn and i recently bought a HIS ICeQ4 4850 Turbo for $179.99. :/ well atleast it's quiet at 80% fan speed and very overclockable

yOU got SUCKered.

Good think i waited, i wonder if i should wait for the 55nm

 

[Steevo]

I have waited to get my second 4850 1Gb for this.

 

[Homeless]

I'm still debating waiting for next gen cards

 

[chaotic_uk]

I've been out of school for 21 years....

lol got you beat (or is it beet as i cant remeber lol) , this price drop will not mean much with the poor £ v's $ . saving my money for the phenom II then might get another 4870 (hopefully be cheaper then)

 

[mikek75]

LOL, thanks for that, its always nice to meet someone older round here....getting rarer by the day!

 

[zithe]

yOU got SUCKered.

Good think i waited, i wonder if i should wait for the 55nm

4k series already is 55nm. Not sure about GTX200 series, though.

 

[chaotic_uk]

when are the revised 4870's being released ?

 

[oli_ramsay]

No it's not, it's a fiver!

It's actually less than that!

Say it costs £100 which would already have the 17.5% VAT pre-applied to it, I can't do the maths lol but from what I remember from Have I Got News For You, it's ~2.1% off the final price. So if it originally cost £200 it would now cost £195.80..........

Pretty pathetic reduction.

 

[eidairaman1]

darn and i recently bought a HIS ICeQ4 4850 Turbo for $179.99. :/ well atleast it's quiet at 80% fan speed and very overclockable

Current Boards are Still Excellent.

 

[Scrizz]

sweet, now it's time to buy a 4870

 

[rodneyhchef]

It's actually less than that!

Say it costs £100 which would already have the 17.5% VAT pre-applied to it, I can't do the maths lol but from what I remember from Have I Got News For You, it's ~2.1% off the final price. So if it originally cost £200 it would now cost £195.80..........

Pretty pathetic reduction.

Yeah it's a fiver saving on £235 but I figured it was close enough!

 

[InfDamarvel]

And no one believed me when I said just wait right before Xmas on these prices LOL

That's funny

On black friday you could have obtained a HD4870 from $193 after rebate lol.
But it was the PCS+ version from ASUS with the fan issues for some, but I got it and made it work just fine..for a friend

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

What will be the new 4830 prices?

 

[Skillz]

On black friday you could have obtained a HD4870 from $193 after rebate lol.
But it was the PCS+ version from ASUS with the fan issues for some, but I got it and made it work just fine..for a friend

I wouldn't buy a 4870 for two reasons, mainly cause the red ugly color on the PCB they have been using for a decade now... yeh i'm racist like that when it comes on to Vid cards cause it got to look good in my window case, two; not enough support.

 

[btarunr]

I wouldn't buy a 4870 for two reasons, mainly cause the red ugly color on the PCB they have been using for a decade now... yeh i'm racist like that when it comes on to Vid cards cause it got to look good in my window case, two; not enough support.

Buy Sapphire Toxic. You get your blue/black theme. As for "not enough support", thanks for the laughs.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

Buy Sapphire Toxic. You get your blue/black theme. As for "not enough support", thanks for the laughs.

You can easily spot the corporate endorcers

 

[Skillz]

You can easily spot the corporate endorcers

He he he so true, he he.

Buy Sapphire Toxic. You get your blue/black theme. As for "not enough support", thanks for the laughs.

I did a quick check and your little ugly Sapphire and it got owned in almost every test by the GTX 260 core 216 in every test, http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/sapphire_toxic_4870_review/page3.asp

Dark Vader XFX GTX260 Black Edition is so black and beautiful it doesn't even come close pal.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150330
Free Farcry 2 plus 40 MIR and free shipping, that's 200 bucks final just for this beauty.

 

[btarunr]

I was responding to your rather trivial reasons for not choosing Radeon (which was something other than performance/price/ratios), not how Sapphire Toxic cards perform.

 

[crazy pyro]

Any idea what they're going to do about 4850 512mb prices in the UK? Or will we not be ripped off for once and the 4870's have a price much closer to the 4850?

 

[Ravenas]

Good to know. I'm glad ATI is still striving for #1.

 

[rodneyhchef]

Any idea what they're going to do about 4850 512mb prices in the UK? Or will we not be ripped off for once and the 4870's have a price much closer to the 4850?

What's really knackered 4850 prices is the 4830! I bought my Palit Non-reference 4850 in October(ish) before the 4830 came out. I paid £100 for it from scan. Now, the same card is £120!

 

[crazy pyro]

Bollocks, if only I had ordered all my parts in september/ october I'd have got my build £50 cheaper.