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Hm.

I don't think it'll be £285.

I think it'll be £300, which they'll justify based on the 'weak pound'. (Sterling is currently at approximately the same level it was in the late '90's against the USD...) the Euro is kept artificially strong because Brussels can't afford for it to fail. Amusingly, some of what keeps it so strong is the tithe the UK pays to the EU for membership.

Having said that, at that price, I'll wait a while. I was hoping for closer to £250.

I think we can look forward to the 5870X2 (when it finally shows up) to be in the £500-550 region. Unless nVidia come out with something amazing with GT300 which causes a price war.

f hadn't sold my triplehead for about $240 usd and my gtx 260+ for $160 i'd be screaming RIPP OFF LOL!

but yeh, this is pretty much a free upgrade for me ^_^ + i can finally ultilise my 3x24inches at 3x1920x1200 :)

woooot!

€320 seems reasonable. From my memory, new cards costing €600 and up isn't that far back in history.

That would have been the GTX280, before nVidia realised that they weren't selling because they'd totally misjudged the market.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/9/15/radeon-5700-pricing-revealed2c-end-for-hd4800-draws-near.aspx

Take anything Fudzilla/BSN/SemiAccurate/Inq says with a heavy does of cynicism.

Frequently I think they work news stories on the 'spray and pray' method: if they can put enough stories out with enough guesses, they'll get it right occasionally.

Take anything Fudzilla/BSN/SemiAccurate/Inq says with a heavy does of cynicism.

Frequently I think they work news stories on the 'spray and pray' method: if they can put enough stories out with enough guesses, they'll get it right occasionally.

I liken tech news to the monkey cage at the zoo. They fling feacies around and once in awhile it sticks. And what is doubly bad is they source each other as legitimate sources of news. They feed off of eachother's trash. It's hard to find unbias tech news anymore without catching their hands in the cookie jar via ad revenue or free review samples coloring reviews. I was especially humored by reading SemiAccurate the other day with 3 ad banners on the particular articles I read and every single one of those ad banners were paid for by AMD. Matter of fact, I've yet to see a banner not paid for by AMD on SemiAccurate lol. While someone has to pay the bills, one would think they could diversify their banner revenue a bit. It looks quite damning as far as bias.

As for pricing I'm still trying to decide when I'll purchase a 5870 Six. If it's under $450 initially I'll most likely pull the trigger on the buy at Newegg.

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put that idea on hold...

http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20337

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Yeah if demand is up/supply low, definitely best to wait a while for the price to drop.

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put that idea on hold...

http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20337

Then just buy the card from the Dell online store? I have no real brand loyalty when it comes to ATI cards, so I'll get it where I can find it I guess. :wink:

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