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Up by £20

Same here :/ Going to get the cheapest 5850 instead now. As £320 tips the balance for me not much more but its back to over £100 more than the 50 :/
 
I love how the HIS version is almost £400 with a piddly 1 year warranty. :eek: Best bet is XFX id say.
 
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It'll drop again, by mid March probably. Although then we'll have something shiny around the corner as is always the case.
 
up2nogooduk said:
Oh really.. i thought it would be cheaper then that. ATI must be making a killing then. unlike nvidia who need to pull there fingers out :D
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Again, not really about $80-90 more is almost completely down to the extra it costs to make the core compared to last gens core(due to yields, problems), the rest, which is only really $30-40, is partly AMD, partly the AIB's(sapphire/xfx) partly the distributors and partly the retailer.

The 5870 is a bad price for a well informed buyer full stop, no matter where its been, its really worth no more in performance to an enthusiast than a 5850 full stop, I'd never buy a 5870 over a 5850 unless it was maybe £20 difference.

Overclocked as far as either will go, you'd never see a difference between the cards. Basically you'd be mad to buy anything over a £200 5850, which is incidentally what I got.

Its also, when you consider the performance not incomparable to last gen where a 4870 was £170-210, the 4850 was significantly slower and it was incapable of matching a 4870 at all. THe 5850 is more than capable of equalling the 5870, so you're still at the £200 mark for the top performing card.
 
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