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

Aurhinius · 15 Aug 2009 at 11:25

This would explain why you cannot buy a 4870x2 anywhere

=VTA=MANFACE · 15 Aug 2009 at 11:28

mrk said:
I think ATI will be the DX11 king this time round perhaps...

I hope so. Nv milked us with the 8800 series.

ATI have been very customer friendly with prices and performance, and made Nv drop their very high prices.

londonbairn · 15 Aug 2009 at 11:39

Good news, next upgrade

ZXSpectrum · 15 Aug 2009 at 11:46

Hopefully there will be a card arround the £200 mark..

Xelene · 15 Aug 2009 at 12:09

Well I think that pair of 4890's i've been eyeing up is now on hold.

Nelly · 15 Aug 2009 at 12:26

gurusan said:
Lets hope for a new reference cooling solution than the one they've been using on the 29xx/38xx/48xx

The Asgard said:

I'm hoping for quieter and idle performance that matches Nvidia. It's a long time coming.

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IceQ coolers straight off from the start would be great!! I'd pay £30+ more just for that, fedup of the vacuum cleaner reference coolers.

antran · 15 Aug 2009 at 12:26

time to sell my 4890s

CaptainRAVE · 15 Aug 2009 at 12:27

Skyline said:
Hopefully there will be a card arround the £200 mark..

Hopefully the 5870X2...I can dream

ebilcake · 15 Aug 2009 at 12:55

Very cool, looking forward to this.

dmxdex2020 · 15 Aug 2009 at 13:15

Will be selling my 4890 on the MM and save up few quid for my 5870x2 or get 2 in crossfire. When i see reviews i will decide.

baked188 · 15 Aug 2009 at 13:23

sooner than i expected

Cooper · 15 Aug 2009 at 13:26

Trouble is, the first generation of cards that use a new Direct X, are never really powerful enough to utilise it with high frame rates....tech demos are one thing, but 'real world, in game' reality is another thing completely.

DX 9 and DX10 showed that you could have fancy new things, but the then current generation of cards struggled quite badly with them in terms of frame rates...

Always best to wait for the 1st refresh of a new generation, i think.

ViRuS2k · 15 Aug 2009 at 13:42

Both my 4890s are going back to OCUK for full refunds.
i just hope the 5870x2`s are out on the 10th.

86JR · 15 Aug 2009 at 13:43

Im hoping they have similair folding performance to my 260gtx, if this is the case the 260 will be finding its way into MM sooner than I thought

~>Dg<~ · 15 Aug 2009 at 13:47

lol at the 4890s going back

CK61938 · 15 Aug 2009 at 14:05

ViRuS2k said:
Both my 4890s are going back to OCUK for full refunds.
i just hope the 5870x2`s are out on the 10th.

lol...this is what I love about the computer industry...we buy things that are just out and before you know it BANG the new ones are released and we wish we had waited that little longer...I am glad I got my 4870X2 back in Feb...it means I will buy a 5870X2 next Feb as the upgrade and hopefully by then waterblocks for said new GPU will be available...

RizlaKing · 15 Aug 2009 at 14:23

Arn't the X2's normally a few weeks behind the normals for release ??. As long as i can get one in october i will be happy

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CaptainRAVE · 15 Aug 2009 at 14:50

RizlaKing said:
Arn't the X2's normally a few weeks behind the normals for release ??. As long as i can get one in october i will be happy .

Yep and quite a bit more expensive for a few weeks. How long until people buy it on release, and then complain about the price drop a week later...

TaKeN · 15 Aug 2009 at 14:56

Wicked sick! :eek:

ralv585 · 15 Aug 2009 at 15:07

Never had an ati card before, but if these are the right price, and the performance is great, i might have to get a pair.

On a side note, is there a quicker way of getting into the member markets, without havnig 250 posts?, i'd like to sell my gtx 280's to fund the new cards, and i don't feel like spamming the forums.

Cheers