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Whats going on with the GTX260 Core216?

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

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Suprised we've not seen these gradually replacing the 260's yet. So far only BFG and EVGA have announced them and only BFG ones seem to be available to buy?

Very sow, whats going on? I was hoping they'd be out and prices etc would have settled by the end of October..
 
I got my ocx maxcore on friday and I'm very impressed so far. I was shocked how big and heavy the card was compaired to my 7950GT. It runs cooler than my previous card and Crysis looks amazing on very high settings. Managed to pull 11694 on 3dmark vantage with my [email protected] rig.

If you don't want to bat for the red team then I would recommend GTX260 216.
 
I don't understand the reasoning behind these at their current price. Surely nVidia released these to take out the 4870, given that their original GTX260 was coming up just short, especially with AA.

But they can't really price it at £70 more than the ATi offering and expect them to shift, surely?
 
4870 is still the best value to performance card you can get at the moment-fact. NV are pricing themselves out of the market when recently it looked like they were trying to compete on value.:o i think they must be hurting from they price cuts due to the 4000 cards and now they cant take any more so prices are slowly creeping up. Those in the know will just go ATI.
 
Tute said:
But they can't really price it at £70 more than the ATi offering and expect them to shift, surely?
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Exactly, I dont understand it. I'm quite an Nvidia fanboy and even I wont pay the extra over a 4870 for this card - if the prices are still as they are now in 2-3 weeks time I'm going to go ATi, its £70 wasted otherwise.
 
[TW]Fox;12603722 said:
Exactly, I dont understand it. I'm quite an Nvidia fanboy and even I wont pay the extra over a 4870 for this card - if the prices are still as they are now in 2-3 weeks time I'm going to go ATi, its £70 wasted otherwise.
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Just get a 4870 anyway Fox - you're waiting for what is probably not going to happen, and even then the 4870 has AA performance that no other card can match. :)
 
Only from all the comparison screenshots I've seen of oblivion, half-life2 and crysis the AA on the 4800 is quite inferior to the 200 series so I'm not suprised its faster.
 
Straight from the firing squad 4870 conclusion:

ATI’s really dialed in their 8xMSAA performance also. Whereas GeForce GTX and 9800 boards see a significant performance hit at 8xAA, the Radeon 4800 boards continue to scale well. 8xAA is actually playable in games like Oblivion, Company of Heroes, and Quake Wars. In fact, in our testing the Radeon 4850 was capable of giving the GeForce GTX 260 a run for its money in Oblivion, Quake Wars, and Episode 2, while the 4870 actually outgunned the GTX 280! The GTX cards managed to pull ahead in CoH though.

Note the part about the 4850 being close to the gtx260 and the part where the 4870 actually outguns the gtx280 which is as we know faster than the gtx260 216. At 4xaa yea the 260 is on par but up the aa it gets left behind end off and there are other reviews that say the same. The gtx series take a bigger hit than the 4 series with over 4xaa.
 
Tute said:
Just get a 4870 anyway Fox - you're waiting for what is probably not going to happen, and even then the 4870 has AA performance that no other card can match. :)
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No harm in waiting and this forum is the only place I've heard stories of the 4870's mythical AA performance :p
 
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