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Discussion On The ATI Radeon 5*** Series Before They Have Been Released Thread
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Can i watch.
Soldato
Amazing, I'll be getting one around christmas, so consumer advice and professional will be abundant! 
I can't wait to see what these can do.
I can't wait to see what these can do.
Soldato
guess im selling my 4870
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yeah I would say this will be a paper launch. Retail availability possibly by early october on the mainstream card.
Expect enthusiast boards to come a month or two later when yields have improved. Remember X2 boards used twice as many chips
Expect enthusiast boards to come a month or two later when yields have improved. Remember X2 boards used twice as many chips
Soldato
I don't think they'd announce a launch if the problems were that big.
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Tbh I'd expect a hard launch with some limitations on
quantity. Also nothing official, but
I'd expect the x2 variant to ship a couple of months later and just before
the gt300 to keep things 'fresh' in the minds of the consumers and to
be competative with nvidias top card
edit - posted from iPhone so forgive the spacing errors
quantity. Also nothing official, but
I'd expect the x2 variant to ship a couple of months later and just before
the gt300 to keep things 'fresh' in the minds of the consumers and to
be competative with nvidias top card
edit - posted from iPhone so forgive the spacing errors
That makes complete sense, keep something back to rain on Nvidias parade however I think ATI would want to take the performance crown while they can and I hope I am wrong but I doubt a single 5870 will beat a GTX295.
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Caporegime
I rekon the launch date for the cards will be sometime in October, around the time of windows 7 release 
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I'll be grabbing one of these at launch, providing they offer a decent enough performance increase - the 4870 512MB I have at the moment is decent but somewhat dated now. If Crossfire performance is impressive I may pick up a second, though I'd need a Firewire soundcard to free up my second PCIe slot. I already have Win7 preordered and am really looking forward to DiRT2 (I'm a huge fan of GRID) and its full DX11 support. I'd wait for an X2 but it will likely take a while, the price is an unknown and Crossfire still doesn't scale well beyond two cards.
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again?
Agreed! Be warned that if you do it too much then you'll be blacklisted from purchasing from them ever again. They won't stand for people taking the $%^"
And lets face it, OcUK get some cracking deals!
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It would be nice if ATI did some more stuff for their Stream...
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