Their in!!!!!!!

Nymins · 28 Jun 2007 at 20:44

Are these not on par with the 8600GTS, but considerably cheaper? Seems quite good for the ones on a tight budget if you ask me.

Locky · 28 Jun 2007 at 20:48

Nymins said:
Are these not on par with the 8600GTS, but considerably cheaper? Seems quite good for the ones on a tight budget if you ask me.

no they lag behind the 8600 series and are more costly in cases.

LoadsaMoney · 28 Jun 2007 at 20:56

As above, x1950pro urines all over the 2600's, which it should do seen as its even faster than the 8600's, and even they urine all over the 2600's.

Hitman_Leon · 28 Jun 2007 at 20:56

sormicoft said:
i see my 1900 xtx quaking in its boots not

Mine just fell over laughing too.

RobertN · 28 Jun 2007 at 21:15

hows about 2 in 1 card

http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/news/2007/06/05/Sapphire-Unleashes-Dual-HD-2600-XT/p1

helmutcheese · 28 Jun 2007 at 21:23

Thats nearly as much waste as the Asus dual core 7800GT with external PSU lol.
Or even the Gigabytes dual core 6600GT.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/review/2006/01/13/ASUS-Extreme-Dual-N7800GT/p1

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/gigabyte3d1/9.html

Locky · 28 Jun 2007 at 22:10

ever since AMD took over ATI, they have been going down the pan big time.

eracer2006 · 28 Jun 2007 at 22:24

I think both amd and ati should just die

jaykay · 29 Jun 2007 at 08:34

Yes they should die and then we get high prices yey.

Margaret · 29 Jun 2007 at 08:51

Sinny said:
because i can get one for £40 ^_^, and im sure with a few updates to the drivers they will get better.

Gotta wonder how much longer people will say it's the drivers that are to blame for ATI's shoddy cards.

Anyway I'm sticking with my 7900GTO it does the job very well still.

nikebee · 29 Jun 2007 at 10:02

knowlesy said:
OMG HOW CHEAP !!!!!

you haven't seen the benchmarks yet then? :confused:

they're not worth the price tag.

V1N · 29 Jun 2007 at 10:03

TiZoR said:
why on earth would anyone buy one of them cards

Actually my first thought when I looked at the HD2400 is what a good media centre card it would make, assuming it really is silent.

A good price, HDMI out, and hardware decoding of video, does audio as well... if I were building a media centre PC right now, I definitely consider one of those to power the graphics.

I wouldn't fancy it for playing new games though

V1N.

willhub · 29 Jun 2007 at 10:21

Those 2600's are a rip off :eek:

bloodiedathame · 29 Jun 2007 at 10:45

You mean 'they're in' or better, 'they are' in not 'their in'. Tut tut.

steve258 · 29 Jun 2007 at 11:08

Gibbs said:
How on earth did AMD think these will beat NV. they need to take a good hard look, with AMDs CPU sales going down,plus the money they spent on buying ATi, they are gonna have to do something to make this cash back but this is not it

I think ATI/AMD is well aware of that and is taking a huge gamble hoping that the new architecture will really pay off in true DX10 games. It's the only logical explanation.

J.D · 29 Jun 2007 at 11:23

eracer2006 said:
I think both amd and ati should just die

Yeah, you sure???. If they do you will pay through the roof and wait much longer.

Yeah go and die AMD woot :confused:

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Hitman_Leon · 29 Jun 2007 at 11:44

jaykay said:
Yes they should die and then we get high prices yey.

Dont be like that, the whole chip and gfx card market would be dominated by one player for each field, bad for all of us. Bad hardware is released by all developers now and then, its a hard market and the biggest make mistakes but in the long run things ballance out with better developed products. You can bet a whole lot of moving around is being done to make sure future products are up to expectations, heads rolling ect in r&d and other relevent departments.

jaykay · 29 Jun 2007 at 11:47

HITMAN_LEON said:
Dont be like that, the whole chip and gfx card market would be dominated by one player for each field, bad for all of us. Bad hardware is released by all developers now and then, its a hard market and the biggest make mistakes but in the long run things ballance out with better developed products. You can bet a whole lot of moving around is being done to make sure future products are up to expectations, heads rolling ect in r&d and other relevent departments.

Soz sacasim was surpose to be there except its hard on a forum to show it, but i believe that competition is good.

afraser2k · 29 Jun 2007 at 12:00

willhub said:
Those 2600's are a rip off

Probably hoping to sell them on the "DirectX 10" label.

Personally I won't be buying either mainstream card at the moment. The performance is less than desirable from what I have just now.

Schnippzle · 29 Jun 2007 at 12:19

I hope some one from AMD/ATI are reading these forums so they can get their acts together

But like it was said earlier, they will have contracts with multiple OEM's so they will rake in the cash anyway. Its just us enthusiasts who do not like them. For average Joe Bloggs Im sure they would be more than happy to have a dx10 card in their Dell/HP/whatever.