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    How cheap do you reckon 5870 will be by the time GTX300 arrive?

    Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this. At what price would you buy one? I'd consider it at about the £240 mark but wouldn't go much higher...you can nearly get 2 x 4890s at that price now!

    They do tend to plummit in price once a little healthy competition is introduced. Hope Nvidia bring something amazing to the table and more importantly at a good price.

    I havn't even got any money or any proper means of saving some up atm and I'm alreayd thinking about how to get my hands on 1 haha. Any1 else as stupid as me?!

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    Re: How cheap do you reckon 5870 will be by the time GTX300 arrive?

    the sources i trust say the GT300 will be big, hot, low yeild, but fast, i think we are all expecting them around Feb 10, which ties in rather badly with the refresh of the 5xxx series. i think the best nvidia can hope for at this point is to have the outright fastest card, but being battered on the price/performance front.

    but then again who knows eh?
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    Re: How cheap do you reckon 5870 will be by the time GTX300 arrive?

    I agree with MadduckUK. If the rumours are correct then nVidia will have to sell at a loss to have a favourable bang per buck.

    As for cost - I think £250 is plausable by Q1 2010

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    Re: How cheap do you reckon 5870 will be by the time GTX300 arrive?

    I'd look at the Vapor X 5870 for £250 next Summer. Offset by the sale of my current 4890.
    The length of the card is a bit of an issue though. I'm had to move stuff around with the current card. The 5870 are at least 1" longer, and the 5870x2 longer again !
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    Re: How cheap do you reckon 5870 will be by the time GTX300 arrive?

    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    the sources i trust say the GT300 will be big, hot, low yeild, but fast, i think we are all expecting them around Feb 10, which ties in rather badly with the refresh of the 5xxx series. i think the best nvidia can hope for at this point is to have the outright fastest card, but being battered on the price/performance front.

    but then again who knows eh?
    Can you link to the "sources you trust"?

    http://digitimes.com/news/a20090918PD210.html

    Huang is also expected to check on TSMC's 40nm process, for which TSMC has claimed yield rates have already risen from 30%, to 60% in July, and defect density will drop to only 0.2 in October. Huang will also check the progress of its upcoming GT300 GPU which is expected to launch in December.
    I haven't seen any reputable source saying the GT300 is due next year, only that idiot Charlie Demerjian. (who brought us such predictions as "NVIDIA is leaving the motherboard business!" and "The 8800GTX will have an external power brick!")

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