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Discussion On The ATI Radeon 5*** Series Before They Have Been Released Thread

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I'm with Duffman on the hat eating. The cards will be $299 for the 5850 and $399 for the 5870.

Kylew, I know it's only 2 weeks between 10th and the actual release, however at the point in question that's about a month away and with the prices looking like those stated above they 4890 at £120 is a very good purchase. Apologies name checking you directly, even if I don't agree with your points, you make them well which makes your posts memorable if nothing else ;)
 
kylew said:
The issue is what makes the most sense, and $299 and $399 makes absolutely no sense to me what so ever.
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Why not? They seem like the obvious price-points to go for, given the current state of the competition and previous high-end GPU history.

Anyway, this is all irrelevant discussion based on personal opinion (which, of course, means nothing). AMDs own slides have stated "below $400" and "below $300" for the 5870 and 5850 respectively. Is there anyone here who honestly believes that AMD would have said this if they were planning $199 and $299 price points? Or even $249 / $349?

BTW - blended hat seems to be the way to go... Add a little milk and a few strawberries; I can see it being quite tasty. Plenty of fibre I guess :p
 
Duff-Man said:
Why not? They seem like the obvious price-points to go for, given the current state of the competition and previous high-end GPU history.

Anyway, this is all irrelevant discussion based on personal opinion (which, of course, means nothing). AMDs own slides have stated "below $400" and "below $300" for the 5870 and 5850 respectively. Is there anyone here who honestly believes that AMD would have said this if they were planning $199 and $299 price points? Or even $249 / $349?

BTW - blended hat seems to be the way to go... Add a little milk and a few strawberries; I can see it being quite tasty. Plenty of fibre I guess :p
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Fibre isnt the same as fibres :p
 
i think if the supply is as good as they make out,

$280
$380

After about 2 weeks of being on sale, maybe a bit less wiht mail in rebates or something.

I am pretty sure they won't be $200/$300, that would mean that the 4k series would have to drop and they would be undercutting nvidia by a ridiculous margin :).

$380 seems like a good price really though, im very tempted :)
 
Duff-Man just so you know, if you do end up losing that bet with yourself, I hope you change the cake in your sig to a hat :p.

I don't think the prices are too high at all really for new tech that will very probably heavily beat the competition in the same price range.
 
sargatanas said:
Duff-Man just so you know, if you do end up losing that bet with yourself, I hope you change the cake in your sig to a hat :p.
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Okay, I will :p

Hat eating only applies if the MSRP is significantly less than $399/$299 on release though... say, less than $350/$250. I'm not eating anything nasty if they end up at $398! :p

Anyway, personally I'm more interested in the 5870x2. Have we had a price stated for this yet? I suppose it would probably fill the $599 bracket?
 
So these aren't going to work with a non DisplayPort monitor? Any word on how much the samsung screens with thin bezels will be? I was just about to buy another 22" screen today... but I might now now.
 
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