ATI Cuts Price of HD 4870 512MB

[ravenware]

[citation][nom]xanthvar[/nom]um, where??I am looking to buy a 4870 on newegg, but instead of dropping in price, the one I WAS going to get is now more expensive (it lost its $25 off, and went from $174 to $199).http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102810[/citation]

The price cuts are supposedly taking place this week

 

[fonzy]

Damn I'm still running an ATI 3850 256mb,I might just take the plunge and buy a 4870 512.As you can imagine Crysis Warhead gets pretty laggy with the card I have now.

BTW I hope AMD can get there CPU line as competitive soon.

 

[Greatwalrus]

Yes!!! This is great news for someone prospecting a new computer or videocard now or in the future 😉

 

[Tekkamanraiden]

Sweet might be able to get another 4850 for a crossfire setup.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Perhaps they're actually going to be so cheap I could consider adding another one to my p35 and not be feeling like wasting money by crippling it via the bandwidth .... but I think I'll stay sane ..

 

[_horse]

Hmm... Sounds like I may have to start a new adventure in to Crossfire land for the first time.

Prepare for great "Oh no... what'd I do?"-age!

Either way. Let ATI and nVidia fight over me as much as they want! I get the good end of it!

 

[trinix]

And after they sold everyone one card, people are considering switching from old cards to new cards, adding a 2nd card, man the person in charge of marketing at the GPU section needs a raise and a new job, work on both sides, so the CPU's can be sold like this too.

It's like AMD's always one step ahead on GPU's nowadays. After the long reign of the 8800 GTX, the king has died and the new generation is kicking him left and right.

AMD realised that the cost of new cards was the biggest issue. Except for the few enthusiasts, most people rather pay less and save money to pay the bills or get another piece of hardware extra. Better buy a 4870 +SSD than buy a 295. And while most games are cpu bound nowadays anyway, with very little performance gains from a better gpu, especially when you look at the cost to produce those monster chips, you realise that a 4870 is enough (or xfire it for higher resolutions).

Now to see how they'll revolutionize the scene with the new 4890.

 

[hairycat101]

I like the increased competition, but HIS has seriously soured me on ATI products. I will NEVER under any circumstanses, buy a HIS product again. Problem is, though, I have no definate way of knowing that it was HIS's quality and not the chips that were so horribly unstable. I doubt, after that experience, that I will buy ATI again.

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I doubt the ati chips were your problem. Ati's biggest letdown is on the software side. I'm not aware of any significant manufacturing problems from them. I dare say g80 products from nvidia have manufacturing problems though. All the g80 based cards I've had to do with have at some point broken down - except a single 8800gts320 and a 8800gtx that was a replacement for another that failed. But at least their drivers are decent

 

[Guest]

I have been monitoring newegg prices ever since this article broke, and i have not seen any significant price drops yet.

I think there is a small possibility that buyers will be able to buy a 4870 for 100-125 if EXTREMELY lucky.

I see a lot of 200 dollar cards out of stock at newegg to keep the price high..supply and demand. but i think they will eventually drop soon.

 

[Guest]

I think am starting to love ATI, i've always like nVidia but their rebranding of the 8's series to 9's just to make more profit was very stupid from their part. It was just a marketing strategy and the consumer was the big loser and beside nVidia has become very greedy. I think we all underestimated ATI for a long time.Its a very nice move of their part to make high-end graphics cards affordable. Two thumbs up for ATI--From a user who always liked and supported to use nVidia products. ( USED to like )