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

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JAKUS said:
Old GFX cards that were a few months previous "new/Current" go end of line or worthless :rolleyes:

Hey, listen, I'm not supporting or defending anyone here, just explaining the way retailing is
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Well thanks for that Captain Obvious but I fail to see how that means retailers will drop 5870 prices when they get good supply if they're still selling at full price? If people are buying them happily at £320 (for example) then why would they drop that?

They'll drop it when demand slows and not a moment before.
 
I was speaking to whoever said that the "4850 and 4870 were slower and less feature packed than their NVidia counterparts." They patently weren't.
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And I wasn't replying to you :-P
 
Mmm_Badger_Soup said:
What are they doing that is so bad?
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Sneaky underhanded ways.

They had DX10 gimped, they ranted about DX10.1 and had 10.1 code patched out of Assassin's Creed, they had it removed from 3DMark Vantage, they've gone way overboard with their renaming of GPUs.

8800GT, 8800GTS, 8800GSO, 9600GSO (with about 5 different versions) 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+ GTS250, mGTX260, mGTX280.

Propaganda against anything that they don't support, and then whoring of these same technologies when they do support it.

Massive overpricing, slagging off their competition with low blows and lies.

Complete determination to produce bigger more expensive cards with no apparent thought to anything else.

The big coverup they tried when a load of their mobile GPUs failed, then tried to sweep it under the carpet.

And now they've been caught readying more G92 chips to be renamed to G300s.

Oh, and don't forget the disabling of PhysX when an ATi card is detected.

Amongst others.

This isn't called being a fanboy, it's called being a consumer with the right to express opinions on companies doing such things.

It's just a matter of time before they're slapped with a massive anti-competitive fines.
 
kylew said:
Sneaky underhanded ways.

They had DX10 gimped, they ranted about DX10.1 and had 10.1 code patched out of Assassin's Creed, they had it removed from 3DMark Vantage, they've gone way overboard with their renaming of GPUs.

8800GT, 8800GTS, 8800GSO, 9600GSO (with about 5 different versions) 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+ GTS250, mGTX260, mGTX280.

Propaganda against anything that they don't support, and then whoring of these same technologies when they do support it.

Massive overpricing, slagging off their competition with low blows and lies.

Complete determination to produce bigger more expensive cards with no apparent thought to anything else.

The big coverup they tried when a load of their mobile GPUs failed, then tried to sweep it under the carpet.

And now they've been caught readying more G92 chips to be renamed to G300s.

Oh, and don't forget the disabling of PhysX when an ATi card is detected.

Amongst others.

This isn't called being a fanboy, it's called being a consumer with the right to express opinions on companies doing such things.

It's just a matter of time before they're slapped with a massive anti-competitive fines.
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Ahmen the preacher has spoken words of truth. :p
 
wolvers69 said:
Or when the greenies lower they're prices.
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That'd be an ATi decision though really, rather than retailer but still - even if nVidia took massive cuts, if the ATi stuff was still selling just as well as ever they're hardly going to cut it needlessly are they?
 
magicroundabout said:
roughly 5pm why?
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I'm still finding it hard to believe that this guy who is "high up" in Sapphire would potentially risk his job by breaking an NDA to give you info.

The fact that you have "quoted" an email means nothing because you could have written that yourself - screenprint and post the email for us all to see, you've been posting up images easy enough, so why not the email? Anyway, it doesn't look or sound like the type of language a "high up" individual would use.

I still think that the story is baloney. Plus there are references to the cards coming with a Dirt 2 coupon & Battlefields game on other forums a few days before you posted your exclusive news.

Don't be offended that I don't believe you, it doesn't really matter.
 
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Kenai said:
That'd be an ATi decision though really, rather than retailer but still - even if nVidia took massive cuts, if the ATi stuff was still selling just as well as ever they're hardly going to cut it needlessly are they?
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I was making the assumption that if nvidia lowered they're prices then it would impact on ATi sales. Also, Nvidia have had to drop they're prices a lot recently to compete and they've got 70% market share.
 
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