3800 Pricing revealed... DAMN!

[chrispycrunch]

I really doubt it. Many sites are saying these cards will be 10-20% lower...hence the lower pricing. Plus, the cards are underclocked as compared to the GTs.

[fatlazyhomer]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...radeon-hd-3870

[UncleBob]

Nice!

[PF Prophet]

please keep in mind that this tho being a refresh is an updated refresh and is im sure suffering as much from imature drivers as it is from being intentionaly underclocked.

the 2900/2600 still are gaining performance with each new driver relece, personaly i think ALOT of the problems with diffrent games performance is that the drivers havent been fully worked out yet, its not quite the same as the 9800>x800 jump where it was effectivly a liniar jump just dubbling the chip and updating a few things, its more like the x1k line from x800, but more complex because they are dealing with a FAR diffrent design and they are also trying to support a pile of crap called microsoft vista, im SURE it has cause massive pain for the driver dev team, as it has for every driver dev team around the world..........

just give them time, and remmber, these are 55nm cores, they will im quite sure overclock FAR beyond stock

[_dangtx_]

those slides compare it with a 320meg gts right?

[solofly]

those slides compare it with a 320meg gts right?

No. That's 86 hundred not 8800. lol

Boys at rage3d aren't happy about the benches to say the least...

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33907280

[oralpain]

You guys don't think there is any chance these can outperform the 8800GT(X)?

No.

They will, in all probability be slower than the 2900XT (which has essentially the same core, but much more memory bandwidth), and the 2900XT cannot match an 8800GT.

I'm still looking forward to the card because of the vastly reduced power consumption, price, and possibility of achiving a good overclock.

[RatboyX]

At this point my hope is that it drives the price of 8800 GTs below 200 bucks. If can do that I'll be happy

[alex666]

At this point my hope is that it drives the price of 8800 GTs below 200 bucks. If can do that I'll be happy

Yep. In fact, I suspect that as soon as they come out, nvidia et al will drop their 8800gt prices to spoil AMD's coming out party. Good for all of us.

[_dangtx_]

we consumers hate these price wars so much

im curious if well see 180$ or so gt's by xmas

[PF Prophet]

dought it dan, probbly see them go up due to high demand and low supply, i have seen 8800gt's for 350+ of late at some sites.....

[Tagen]

Price War !!!! Please

Its a good time to own computers!

Its a bad time to broke! Waaah!

[_dangtx_]

Its a good time to own computers!

Its a bad time to broke! Waaah!

what'd u break?
its allways a good time to build pcs and tweak them out..until big brother decides we gotta go back to one box to rule them all

[kbohip]

we consumers hate these price wars so much

im curious if well see 180$ or so gt's by xmas

Oh man, if that happened it be the first time I'd ever regret not getting an SLI board.

[_dangtx_]

u always have to keep ahead of times maite. and , at least with rebates, i think its gonna happen. say theyll be 225, with a nice 40$ off(3 months but still )