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

[fornowagain]

I cannot fathom almost 500 quid on a GPU I just can't, still times have changed a bit now

It got worse, those Ultra's were over £540.

How much are they worth now?

About 5p and a kitkat?

Just lol.

 

[psychas]

How much are they worth now?

About 5p and a kitkat?

actually sold it on bay site for 120 £ and got 8800gts g92 later , but price dropped pretty quick so at least i got that for it

 

[Tom|Nbk]

actually sold it on bay site for 120 £ and got 8800gts g92 later , but price dropped pretty quick so at least i got that for it

Yea I did say now, not a day after you recieved it

 

[gareth170]

How much are they worth now?

About 5p and a kitkat?

yesterday i sold a 2900 pro for £25, also few days sold an phenom 9850 for £65,

 

[Azza]

OcUK ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT SILENT Heatpipe 1024MB GDDR4 VIVO
Retail 1 £289.99
Parcelforce Euro 48: £22.00
VAT: £65.52
Order Total: £377.51

Im sorry but that is major


I wish I had the money to get a couple more monitors.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Paid 270 for my x1900xt when they dropped bigtime on TWO. Was a great card, and faster than the 7900GTX costing 400, especially with drivers at the time.

 

[CK61938]

OcUK ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT SILENT Heatpipe 1024MB GDDR4 VIVO
Retail 1 £289.99
Parcelforce Euro 48: £22.00
VAT: £65.52
Order Total: £377.51

Man they saw you coming from a mile off

 

[CK61938]

Just looked at some people's prices of the older cards...jeez they were nuts back then to have them at those prices...and I thought £333 was a lot for my 4870X2 when I bought it...and yet to this day it still remains the most expensive PC component I have ever paid for... go figure...and I bet the new 5870 2GB wont come close (at least here's hoping )

 

[RizlaKing]

Has to be remembered though at the time the 2900xt was coming out a certain website no names being mentioned made them sound like the second coming and swayed quite a few sales. I am not too worried about ati pricing certainly not as much as i would worry with nvidia and while i would like to think nvidia have woken up i just can't help feeling they will releae gt3xx be a bit faster then the 5xxx series and charge more for it. Hope i am wrong and they do compete on price as well as everything else.

 

[DarkMatter]

hd2900xt was 400$ MRSP, so its the same as me getting a hd5870 card now..... i don't feel these 400$ cards offer the best value for money really, 300$ i think is the sweet price point for performance/price

 

[ViRuS2k]

5850

 

[Biffa]

Orchid Righteous 3D was £199 + VAT and I bought two of them in 1997

 

[hohum]

Bloody long card, considering it's not the top version either...

 

[DarkMatter]

only 1 6pin connector, hopefully that means crossfire won't have horrendous power requirements lol

 

[sargatanas]

That 5850 pic has been called a fake on XS so it might not be real.

 

[Squakingcow]

That's not a 5850. It's a render, and its old and very fake.

 

[Broken Hope]

Bloody long card, considering it's not the top version either...

Always find it amusing when people say stuff like that, how can you say it's a long card when you have nothing else in the picture to compare the scale?

This is the 5870 next to a 4890, hardly much longer at all.

 

[Final8y]

5850

Fake.

 

[Lightnix]

Yeah it's probably fake... AMD would never produce such a stylish looking shroud.

 

[magicroundabout]

i remember paying over £200 for an Nvidia 7900GT then selling it last year for £30.

but remember the 7950 being almost double that.

madness how quickly tech has moved on