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Ampersand

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The mouth, it waters.
« on: May 04, 2009, 06:19:09 pm »
For the past couple years, my computer has been running with a nVidia 8800 GTS graphics card. It's not great, but it's passable, will run most modern games without a hitch, though there are occasionally hiccups. Well, It's been a while, and it's high time to upgrade, but I don't necessarily have a lot of money on had, so, I need as much bang for the buck as I can get.

In ATI's desperation to make a dent in nVidia's sales, to say their pricing has been aggressive is an understatement.

http://www1.sapphiretech.com/us/products/products_overview.php?gpid=302&grp=3

THIS, priced at roughly 250 dollars depending where you look.
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Re: The mouth, it waters.
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2009, 06:22:05 pm »
Holy shit. On a biscuit. Now all I need is the know how to install it in a laptop (notoriously hard, I'm told) and I'm all set
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Re: The mouth, it waters.
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2009, 06:26:20 pm »
I have no idea why I linked to the German page. Fix'd
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Re: The mouth, it waters.
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2009, 06:45:13 pm »
Aww man, a whole teraflop?!  Fuuuuuuuu
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« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2009, 07:04:34 pm »
Before you going buying that... take a gander at this! 4770 crossfire is insane. Even without OC, its faster/roughly the same as the 4890, and nearly as good as the GTX280. Only thing it has issues with is 512mb/card makes it perform slower in games like Crysis with heavy duty textures.
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Re: The mouth, it waters.
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2009, 07:14:39 pm »
I thought this was going to be about food.   :'(
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Re: The mouth, it waters.
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2009, 07:17:40 pm »
Quote from: LegoLord on May 04, 2009, 07:14:39 pm
I thought this was going to be about food.   :'(

Me too.  We need more food threads.
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« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2009, 09:36:08 pm »
Lol, and I thought my GS7600 was the latest in modern graphics technology.
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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2009, 07:06:44 am »
I am not a big ATI fan to be honest, but this card looks impressive...anyways, I am wondering that why is this video card so cheap? Weird.... :o
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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2009, 07:24:06 am »
Aggressive pricing to beat nVidia down.
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« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2009, 07:42:47 am »
Quote from: Tormy on May 05, 2009, 07:06:44 am
I am not a big ATI fan to be honest, but this card looks impressive...anyways, I am wondering that why is this video card so cheap? Weird.... :o

Hardware can be extremely cheap. Most of the costs is in setting up equipment and wages. They only jack up prices to make a bigger profit :P
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Re: The mouth, it waters.
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2009, 09:09:50 am »
Don't forget planned obsolescence. They want to keep selling them.
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Re: The mouth, it waters.
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2009, 07:00:54 am »
Quote from: Ampersand on May 05, 2009, 07:24:06 am
Aggressive pricing to beat nVidia down.

Yeah that must be it...I don't have any problems with this marketing strategy to be honest.. ;D
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« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2009, 08:14:35 am »
Quote from: Tormy on May 06, 2009, 07:00:54 am
Quote from: Ampersand on May 05, 2009, 07:24:06 am
Aggressive pricing to beat nVidia down.

Yeah that must be it...I don't have any problems with this marketing strategy to be honest.. ;D
QFT. Being able to build a computer for roughly 300-400 dollars that would have every major government organization trying to 'contact' you if you had it 6-10 years ago...
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