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ATi Radeon HD3850/70 Prices Up!

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Not even sure why you bother Easy.... you dont really bring anything new to the conversation, apart from your current penchant for bitching about anything ATI you can find.

Not to mention that as a GT owner you are biased by that too.

Meh, as long as it's competitive on price/performance, and overclocks like a beast, then i'll prob buy one, and so will a LOT of other people. HD3850 looks to be a special card, though the mem is a little weak.

Now we just have to wait for the price gouging to subside...... I wonder if OCuk were'nt just charging a £10-15 premium on people being able to recieve their cards on thurs, the day the NDA expires, rather than having to order then and recieveing friday/monday :rolleyes:
 
easyrider said:
Who cares for DX10.1 lol:p
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ATI obviously do! :p They have bragging rights 'first DX10.1 on the market', now if only we had SP1 and, indeed, the games to go with it. :)

The main thing I don't get is why MS are already on the brink of the update of DX10, when it's been out for such a short time.
 
simonnance said:
Not even sure why you bother Easy.... you dont really bring anything new to the conversation, apart from your current penchant for bitching about anything ATI you can find.

Not to mention that as a GT owner you are biased by that too.
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I have reason to.

Its not an ATI thing but they release a card thats slower and costs more.

Its that simple.

I have a 8800 GT cause it cost me 152inc on release and it beats evry ATI card in existance.

Now if ATI want to bring out a faster card than the 8800 GT thats costs less then I would buy one.

So stop getting your knickers in a twist and defending a card thats slower and costs more money.

Next you will be recommending people buy them!
 
Well those benchmarks I posted earlier are interesting - currently according to the ocuk site before they were yanked off you can get an 3870 xt for £158 - and it's almost as fast in some cases slightly quicker than the 8800gt. In crysis there's a 2fps difference in the 8800gt's favour. It's currently £20 cheaper than the gt, so I'd say it's pretty good competition.
 
i got to agree with easyrider, the 8800gt's could have been had for £145 on the first 2 days of launch which will be the same for this card as ocuk charges a premium, which means the same price for lower performance, unless this card overclocks like mad then it looks like that it aint worth buying tbh.
 
easyrider said:
I have reason to.

Its not an ATI thing but they release a card thats slower and costs more.

Its that simple.

I have a 8800 GT cause it cost me 152inc on release and it beats evry ATI card in existance.

Now if ATI want to bring out a faster card than the 8800 GT thats costs less then I would buy one.

So stop getting your knickers in a twist and defending a card thats slower and costs more money, and will most likely have more o/c headroom than the GT

Next you will be recommending people buy them!
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it's not all about pure performance for some users, not that i'd expect you to realise that being the self righteous poster boy on these forums :)

some ppl want to run 2 cards and not have to use an nfarce board, some ppl don't want their cards to melt.

the 3x00 series don't look to be far behind in terms of grunt and also have a couple of aces up their sleeve which i've already singled out.
 
Its almost as fast as the GT in some cases, where are these cases being shown, all we have here is a 3D Mark graph, and a shot of the Crysis GPU benchy results. :confused:
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Its almost as fast as the GT in some cases, where are these cases being shown, all we have here is a 3D Mark graph, and a shot of the Crysis GPU benchy results. :confused:
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and this :

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i don't think this would lie.. 5% faster..:confused:.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
You said the same about the 2900XT :o
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HI there

By my definition they are, I am sure what one percieves as silent is different to another.

Don't flame someone because their hearing is maybe not as sensitive as your own.

The rig has a tuniq Tower 120 on it and with the Tuniq at slowest fan speed I can still hear the tuniq fan over the 3850/3870 fan at idle. When I put the 3870 underload I shall see if its becomes more audible over the tuniq at lowest speed.

Just to confirm I consider the TuniQ 120 at slowest speed very quiet, its barely audible on an open desk and in a closed case I can't hear it when set too lowest.
 
What a lot of people fail to consider is total cost of ownership..In a Year the ATI solution could save You £50 on electric over the Nvidia offerings

I 3870 may be slightly less performance than a 8800gt in a couple of areas but even 2 3850's will slaughter anything nvidia has !

Also turning this "it's only a smaller 2900 " rubbish around, are they not holding all the top 3d2006 scores ?

The 8800gt is a great card...just needs a better cooler, but the 3870 is better in so many important areas..for Me it wins.

And i've put My money where my mouth is and pre ordered 2 ;)
 
put it this way, 2x 3850 beats an 8800 ultra in 3dmark 06, Q6600 with a clock of 3.3ghz, should see you 17k clocked with these.
 
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