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Radeon™ HD 3890

ShiWarrior said:
only about £100 ? they seems cheap for a top of the range ATI card!
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OcUK ATI Radeon HD 3850
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256MB - £93.99 inc VAT
512MB - £111.61 inc VAT

I'd find those offers hard to resist myself! :eek:
 
Big.Wayne said:
I do but thats a different conversation all together.

I think its great that Shi has kept hold of his X1950Pro (256MB?) for almost a year but I couldn't do that myself. I think one big contributing factor is reading these forums, there are carefully designed by SITH-Lord Gibbo to extract replublic credits from you when you spend time here! :eek:

Anyway the HD 3850 is the *skinflints* gamers card for xmas 2007 IMO, if your hard up for cash then roughly £100 ish gets you a lot of card!

I'm sure the price will drop if these HD 3890's turn up but not everyone will be able to afford the new dual-gpu cards.
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Yeah, IceQ 3 256Mb version! :D

well, just had a look at the shop
a X1950 PRO 256Mb goes for about £75- £80, and a HD3850 goes for around £110 - £120

might be best if i got one now and sell my X1950?
 
Getting the thread back on topic!

I wonder when these new Radeon cards will be on sale and also what price they will be?

I guess its depends on the performance? If they are half decent then I suppose they could be roughly £250 - £300 smackers each! :eek:
 
ShiWarrior said:
yep! :D lol

I remember your thread about them very well :)

i have the A64 about 2.5 years now, just upgraded to dual-core

Had GFX almost a year (i swapped from AGP to PCIe)
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I am in the same boat over here, went from a 9800pro AGP to my 256 1950pro. Was gonna get myself a couple of 3870s after christmas but looks like i will be waiting for these to be released, hopefully save a bit of money too.

Then might think about getting another one.
 
Big.Wayne said:
Getting the thread back on topic!

I wonder when these new Radeon cards will be on sale and also what price they will be?

I guess its depends on the performance? If they are half decent then I suppose they could be roughly £250 - £300 smackers each! :eek:
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Considering they are likely to (depending who you believe) stop production of the R700 for the near future, I would guess they will be releasing these sometime in January/February and attempt to gain some market share from Nvidia and flog the CrossfireX thing to death.

Price wise, I reckon they'll attempt to sell them between
£200-£260. I don't think they'll be selling them for £300, that just doesn't appeal to the larger audience.

Matthew
 
Big.Wayne said:
How long have you had your X1950Pro?
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I picked up mine along with the rest of my system about middle of January this year. As i wasnt earning a particularly large amount i had to buy everything over 2 months.

Fitted the S1 Accelero cooler on it as the load temps were reaching the high 80s.
 
Rage3d forums hinted it maybe out Feb time frame, somehow im not sure its gonna compete with the Geforce 9 series but will see !

I still wish ATI were releasing a full on new chipset/card altogether.
 
Emailed Ed at Overclockers.com (USA non-competitor) and he said other sites have asked AMD directly for confirmation of the R700 2009 release. Until it is confirmed that the R700 seperately is not delayed,

HighlandeR said:
AMD themselves say that R700 gpus will not come out until 2009!

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...ics_Chips.html
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I see no where in that news that says anything about the R700? Good news on the R680 though :) I guess it will be the usual 3850 x2 though to keep costs down and energy requirements blah blah, or a 'tester' part initially. I could be wrong as most of these 2 chip solutions are released by sapphire/gecube and not amd themselves, so this time we may get the full monty :D

Matthew
 
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