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New Info on 7800 GT

Originally posted by: shady06
$499 MSRP. 7800 GTX can be found for less. this card has to have a street price to $299 ish to tempt me to buy
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No, $449 MSRP.
Wherever you got $499 from, it wasn't this story (unless they updated).


Interesting they are going for 20 pipes. This *to me* suggests one of 2 things, either the 7800 cores clock quite high (and I mean *a lot of* 7800 cores) so they were afraid a 7800GT with 24 pipes and just a lower core speed would eat away at 7800GTX sales too much due to easy overclockis, or they are not getting huge yields with 24 pipes and they need to drop 4 pipes for the GT to make sure they can use as many chips as possible (ie: ones with a failed quad).

TBH I'm not suprised we're seeing a 20 pipe card, I have said in other threads that "different" numbers would be plausible (such as ATi releasing a 28 pipe card if they are going for 32 pipes total).
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Originally posted by: shady06
$499 MSRP. 7800 GTX can be found for less. this card has to have a street price to $299 ish to tempt me to buy
Click to expand...

No, $449 MSRP.
Wherever you got $499 from, it wasn't this story (unless they updated).


Interesting they are going for 20 pipes. This *to me* suggests one of 2 things, either the 7800 cores clock quite high (and I mean *a lot of* 7800 cores) so they were afraid a 7800GT with 24 pipes and just a lower core speed would eat away at 7800GTX sales too much due to easy overclockis, or they are not getting huge yields with 24 pipes and they need to drop 4 pipes for the GT to make sure they can use as many chips as possible (ie: ones with a failed quad).

TBH I'm not suprised we're seeing a 20 pipe card, I have said in other threads that "different" numbers would be plausible (such as ATi releasing a 28 pipe card if they are going for 32 pipes total).
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read it here

i thought it was $449 too...
 
$449 MSRP, and the Inquirer is saying a $399 street price for the GT a little after launch. GTX prices should drop to around $499 to boot.
 
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