News - Fermi-less XFX comes out all guns blazing with 4GB Radeon HD 5970

[jnutt]

I've stopped buying XFX cards as I've never had one last more than a couple of months. They either blow up or you get artifacts on screen. Plus XFX support sucks. I now buy MSI and so far they have been reliable. I'm on my second upgrade with them.

[sammorris]

The Legit reviews article clearly states the card is expected to be priced at $850 or less. The 'we expect it to be over $1000' in this article is a little contradictory

[x2o]

The Legit reviews article clearly states the card is expected to be priced at $850 or less. The 'we expect it to be over $1000' in this article is a little contradictory

Hexus got their price from cebit sapphire stand as shown by hexus tv: http://tv.hexus.net/show/2010/03/CeB...5970_and_more/

[Biscuit]

i think police scanning equipment is advanced enough to see through the plastic fake gun...

[sammorris]

x2o: Indeed, which was at the beginning of the month, and pertained to the Sapphire card at least, not XFX. Now I expect that if XFX are bringing out an Eyefinity6 card at £700 then the Sapphire card without Eyefinity6 is hardly going to be much more, but also remember that the $1000 estimate they gave was before the release of the GTX400 series, which may well have shaken things up a bit.
Couple with that Tarinder from Hexus staff has apparently heard from ATI the £700 figure already, before this article was posted - I'm now inclined to believe the £700ish mark, at least for the Sapphire card.

[Nikomus]

i'l take two please and xfire it

Don't you mean dual wield?


..... Sorry for that one.....

[pricey4907]

I really gotta have one of those, especially after the let down that Fermi was.