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    News - Radeon 6000-series codenames revealed in latest drivers?

    Catalyst 10.8 may make reference to rumoured Southern Islands GPUs
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    Re: News - Radeon 6000-series codenames revealed in latest drivers?

    Stop it! All these leaks and rumors are making my decision of buying a gtx460/5850 harder and harder.

    Do i buy a 460? Or will the price drops of the 5850 due to the 6000 series releasing affect it more than like 10%? Will the 6000 series provide a host of new improvements and actually be a lot better than the 5000 or the gtx 400 series!.

    OMG, AMD please release the details and benchmarks already! So i can actually decide .
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    Re: News - Radeon 6000-series codenames revealed in latest drivers?

    Quote Originally Posted by Hicks12 View Post
    Stop it! All these leaks and rumors are making my decision of buying a gtx460/5850 harder and harder.

    Do i buy a 460? Or will the price drops of the 5850 due to the 6000 series releasing affect it more than like 10%? Will the 6000 series provide a host of new improvements and actually be a lot better than the 5000 or the gtx 400 series!.

    OMG, AMD please release the details and benchmarks already! So i can actually decide .
    There will always be something better just round the corner... just buy a 460, they're good cards.

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    There will always be something better just round the corner...
    Exactly. And even if you do know the release date, it'll probably be pretty much a paper release, with heavy price gouging for the first few months...

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    Re: News - Radeon 6000-series codenames revealed in latest drivers?

    Sure buy one, if you think you won't regret it. Fact is, if you wait less than 2 months, both the 460 and 5850 will be cheaper after these new cards are released so if you think you will regret it...I'm sure you can hold on another 2 months because after that we're talking at least a year before anything else new arrives.

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    Re: News - Radeon 6000-series codenames revealed in latest drivers?

    If the HD6000 series is being released soon then I would wait as it should hopefully mean price cuts on existing graphics cards if it is faster. I am interested to see how fast the replacement for the HD5770 will be.

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    Re: News - Radeon 6000-series codenames revealed in latest drivers?

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