The 5830 is 215$ on newegg and 200$ AR,when do I hit the buy button?

[happy medium]

These cards are comming down in price.
How much do you think there worth? under 200$?

5770's are going for 150/160$ now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-878-_-Product

 

[Ika]

1gb 5770s can be found for $130 AR fairly often, and 4850s can be found for even less (~$80 AR). For that price, I would say the 5830 is still not worth it...

 

[Madcatatlas]

Its worth what the market will pay for it. Just look at the GTX 4xx series, they are apparantly widely available due to not being in demand and grossly overpriced, ergo the market wont pay just any price for them.

for the 5830, id pay 0 since im not in the market for such a card. Id pay 300 for a 480 and 300 for a 5870 though.

 

[HumblePie]

Its worth what the market will pay for it. Just look at the GTX 4xx series, they are apparantly widely available due to not being in demand and grossly overpriced, ergo the market wont pay just any price for them.

for the 5830, id pay 0 since im not in the market for such a card. Id pay 300 for a 480 and 300 for a 5870 though.

Partly the 480 is not selling well because of pricing. The other reason is it just too long to come to the market. Only die hard Nvidia fans are buying them. Most of the unbiased consumers that needed an upgrade already purchased a 5850/5870 card and do not see any benefit over those cards that Nvidia is offering. NVidia was just too late to the ball game with this video card performance plateau. Maybe next time.

However, not all the ATI cards are good buys either. The 5830 is an example. It is a terrible price for that card and the only reason it is being sold at all is to the OEMs.

 

[happy medium]

I've been reading some reviews and it seems the 5770 is 27% cheaper but is only on average about 11% slower. So I guess about 190$ is my buying point for this card. 25$ more dollars to go, come on newegg.

 

[nyker96]

However, not all the ATI cards are good buys either. The 5830 is an example. It is a terrible price for that card and the only reason it is being sold at all is to the OEMs.

I totally agree with this comment on hd5830, it's just not the hd4830 which was much cheaper than 4850s but with oc can get to about the same performance. not true with 5830s, they are too cut down to command even 210ish. I say the best bang for buck is at hd5850s or gtx470s (if priced decently).

 

[yh125d]

I might buy a 5830 for the same price as a 5770. Probably not though. Thing uses more power than 5870 right?

 

[happy medium]

I might buy a 5830 for the same price as a 5770. Probably not though. Thing uses more power than 5870 right?

more then a 5850 but less then a 5870.
I'm not really worried about power. I just want it for ~100$ less then a 5850.
It makes it a good buy ,especially when crossfired and overclocked.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I don't know that we could handle you with another AMD card.

The 5830 isn't a terrible part, you get ~4890 performance which is far from bad. But the price just hasn't made much sense. When it gets sub $200 it starts to become a bit more attractive in my opinion.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

The price on 5830s has not made much sense because they probably have less volume for those cards than the 5850 and 5870 cards. Normally by now the 5850 and 5870 should have been 50-100 cheaper and there would have been no room for the 5830. When they launched the 5830 you could tell that the pricing was set in a way that it would end up having less sales volume than the 5850 and normally cheaper = more volume. This product is basically passing the pile of chips they had set up in the corner over 5 months and as yields get better it will vanish from the market.

 

[ronnn]

The 5830 makes little sense. Wait a couple of weeks and the 5850 might be $200.

 

[RussianSensation]

Compared to previous generation (i.e., 4890/GTX275) I think 5830 doesn't make sense unless it's < $200 or so. That's about 4890's level of performance 13 months later at the same price....Not a stellar value, considering the disappointing power consumption levels.

Compared to the current generation, and relative to 5850's price/performance, it still represents a good value even at $200 since 5850 is not really 50&#37; faster than 5830.

5770 vs. 5830 vs. 5850:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/xfx-radeon-hd5830_6.html#sect1

I think reasonable pricing would be $140 for 5770, $200 for 5850 and $260 for 5850 and $325 for 5870. It's hard to imagine that current cards (other than 5770 and 5830) actually cost more than in September of 2009!

 

[bryanW1995]

if you really have "3 unused gpu connectors" then I'd get 2x5830 at the current price. We don't know if those prices will continue to drop or not. If you have a stopgap that is working ok then I'd hold out a few months and see how low it goes.