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    News - Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB to launch at £270?

    Sapphire already offers the only Radeon HD 4850 X2 currently available, but it'll be launching a second later this year.
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    Re: News - Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB to launch at £270?

    Still to expensive!

    I can go and buy 2x 512MB 4850's from Scan (assuming they were in stock) for £205 why am I going to pay a £65 premium for having a single card solution? In fact I could but 2x 1GB 4850's and still save myself a tenner!

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    Re: News - Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB to launch at £270?

    Agree, it doesn't make sense :S

    The 2GB 4870x2 is most certainly cheaper then 2 x 1GB 4870....as it should be!!

    In fact, if yur paying £270 for a 1GB 4850x2, you might as well stretch the extra to the top dawg.
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    Re: News - Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB to launch at £270?

    I do think that pricing needs to be addressed across all the 4850x2 models. Buying a 4850x2 should certainly be cheaper than having to purchase 2 x 4850's. Perhaps we need to wait and see what prices the other companies price the card at.

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    Re: News - Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB to launch at £270?

    its worth it for people not on X48s x38s.

    priced under the GTX280, and gives usually better results. its fine to me, but then i know have a 4870x2 for £300

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