Ok, I have been watching canadian, including the quickie surprise sales. Some good 4850 prices have floated by, but really would prefer the 4770. Bad move by ati here or they are counting their sales with glee.
cbn
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I'm also wondering if ATI is getting pressure from partners to allow OC versions of 4770.
Thus some 4770 supply might be being held back in order to clear out the 4830s and 4850s. (OC 4770 like ASUS TOP is supposed to be quieter/faster/less power draw than OC 4850)
I really don't think ATI would be holding back. The closer we come to the release date for Nvidia's 40nm items, the more likely peeps will decide to wait for the inevitable price war. That is why I believe AMD went with the initial low pricing. We enthusiasts see the $100 price and say "Why wait?-- I just don't see this card getting any cheaper any time soon."
AMD must have been expecting adequate supplies of this graphics processor otherwise why the low price? If the price were temporarily higher they could clear out their older 55nm models without conflicting the buyers.
That is why I think the supply chain has problems and it appears AMD wasn't made aware of it until days before they increased the suggested retail price by $10.
Edit: Then again, we all must be thinking about the high end 40nm GPUs.
Could AMD have those chip designs ready and telling their fabs to get started on those as well?
Fingers crossed.
AMD must have been expecting adequate supplies of this graphics processor otherwise why the low price? If the price were temporarily higher they could clear out their older 55nm models without conflicting the buyers.
That is why I think the supply chain has problems and it appears AMD wasn't made aware of it until days before they increased the suggested retail price by $10.
Edit: Then again, we all must be thinking about the high end 40nm GPUs.
Could AMD have those chip designs ready and telling their fabs to get started on those as well?
Fingers crossed.
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Same company, rumored to share a factory with Enermax and Topower. AFAIK not utter crap but not the best either. I purchased quite a few BITD when Directron was closing out the older 20-pin models. They have a nice heft to them and some interesting (at the time) features such as 140mm fan, fan that kept spinning for a while after system was shut off, fan modes, used finger guards instead of just stamped from the casing. Not bad for $20-30 sale pricing. AFAIK none of the ones I purchased failed. They were also pretty early on the scene with modular units.
I just have to laugh as that same Directron sale is where I picked up a few PSUs. They had big fans and the back panel was entirely honeycombed. :laugh:. Man, were they ever discounted.
I was also looking for a 4770 as my next video card. My current card is dying and the 4770 is exactly what I am looking for. Good price,solid performance and low power consumption so I don't have to upgrade my power supply. I decided to upgrade my system and the new motherboard has a built in video card. I don't game a ton in the summer so I will just wait till later this summer when the 1 gig HD4770s come out as I might upgrade my monitor in the next 12 months and the extra ram should help at high resolutions.
I am going from a E4300 to a Phenom II 710 tri core with a MSI 790GX and 4 gigs of DD3. Want to play with the virtual XP mode in windows 7.
I am going from a E4300 to a Phenom II 710 tri core with a MSI 790GX and 4 gigs of DD3. Want to play with the virtual XP mode in windows 7.
Moving to a new process always has it's kinks and I'm guessing they're just not geared up to crank these out in the numbers people want.
Look, being the OP on this thread I feel I have the right to interject here... if you don't like the (personal) comments, just do as I often find myself doing and that's just write nothing. We're all smart enough here to see when someone is just being grumpy and unfairly critical or semantically nit picky.
So often it's better to let some statements go by without replies. I try to think of it as just being above the chaos.
So often it's better to let some statements go by without replies. I try to think of it as just being above the chaos.
I was just hoping this thread would let me know who has a 4770 in-stock, or what the best way to acquire one would be.
On another note, I read another post somewhere that there would be another release of 4770s in about a week. I'm waiting on a dual slot version for a relative's upgrade that will support the games I gave him with a Orange Box on Steam.
Joke: Today he asked me to future proof his computer for another 2 years cause I'm moving to another state in 2 weeks and I'm his pc guru. [Grain of salt]. Funny part: He has a 3 year old pc with an Athlon 64 X2 at 2.6GHz, 2GB of DDR mem and a busted ass XFX 7900GT vid.
I said to him, "...dude, your pc is over 3 years old. To future proof your pc for 2 years would require a whole new computer." <cricket sound effect> silence </cricket>.
Joke: Today he asked me to future proof his computer for another 2 years cause I'm moving to another state in 2 weeks and I'm his pc guru. [Grain of salt]. Funny part: He has a 3 year old pc with an Athlon 64 X2 at 2.6GHz, 2GB of DDR mem and a busted ass XFX 7900GT vid.
I said to him, "...dude, your pc is over 3 years old. To future proof your pc for 2 years would require a whole new computer." <cricket sound effect> silence </cricket>.
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