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ok, it's here... but where's the rebate on the 68xx?

cubeless

cubeless

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no one has a rebate or deals on the 68xx cards? i figured ati'd try to really take the steam out of the 460 sales with a monster launch...

and i waited to read any reviews until today, and the only interesting things i see are a little more reasonable pricing vs nvidia and it seems to run crysis as good as its nvidia counterpart...

did i miss something? i am pretty neutral on brands, i just want performance for $$$... i guess we will see if this really pushes prices down on anything but used ati cards...
 
We can't really expect each company to lower prices on a daily or weekly basis? They would just keep leapfrogging each other until they give them away. I'd say it will take time (1-2 months) before you see the 6800 or GTX 400 drop again, outside of a few slickdeals here and there.

I'd expect the HD 5800 series to drop by the time they release Cayman, and then see the prices level off or increase as stock is depleted. Although who knows. Maybe the HD 5800 will see a similar fate as a few HD 4870s saw at the end of their life.
 
A month ago I was about to purchase an ATI 5850 but people told me to wait... till I was able to snatch a Nvidia GTX 470 for $230 after rebate this past weekend... And I am VERY HAPPY with it... :awe:
 
try waiting a few weeks

I expect to see a lot more deals on the 1GB 460 before the 1st deal on the 6 series
 
cubeless said:
no one has a rebate or deals on the 68xx cards? i figured ati'd try to really take the steam out of the 460 sales with a monster launch...

and i waited to read any reviews until today, and the only interesting things i see are a little more reasonable pricing vs nvidia and it seems to run crysis as good as its nvidia counterpart...

did i miss something? i am pretty neutral on brands, i just want performance for $$$... i guess we will see if this really pushes prices down on anything but used ati cards...
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back in the day, nvidia spent years pushing gamer's expected spending on a video card up, and up, and up...
then they got into a nasty pricewar with AMD that annihilated prices on both camps... and profit margins.
Since then they seem to have been making products that slot between each other nicely rather then directly compete. We saw the natural price drop of older parts who have compete with a newer one, but they are now slotted for performance, rather then standing out on the performance/$ ratio.
 
I bet if there was a Black Friday deal for one of these at $50 with no rebate, someone out there would complain that it was too expensive.

Speaking of Black Friday, I may start looking for cards... until then I'm pretty happy with my GTX 285. I don't think a single GTX 460 or Radeon 6850 would be much of an upgrade, if at all for the games I play. I'd probably be better off tossing in that extra GTX 285 for some SLI goodness.
 
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