Woops! Newegg jumps the gun again?

[toyota]

Wooops!

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[tviceman]

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Looks like, although I was technically wrong, I wasn't that far off:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=30411195&postcount=94

 

[exar333]

I want to like this card, but it just can't touch a 5770 AR for about the same $$$. AMD has this price segment. The 260 is really good, but more expensive.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Well, looks like this is a flop. I'll only get it if my 4830 dies out in the next few months. I'll be waiting to get something with 5850 performance around the $130 or less mark. This isn't even close. Maybe the 6750/6770 or an nVidia equivalent will be around that mark.

Gaming at 1680x1050 isn't the biggest of resolution so major GPU memory or horsepower isn't really needed. I'm sure many people are in the same boat that i'm in and both GPU manufactures need to introduce another 4830-like video card. A cut down card that performs far better per $ than their parent GPU. nVidia already did this with the 460 and ATI did with the 5830, but honestly their prices are still way too high.

$79-120 is the sweet spot for consumers to buy video cards. Once a 5850/4601GB hits that price, i'm going all in.

 

[OCGuy]

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$79-120 is the sweet spot for consumers to buy video cards. Once a 5850/4601GB hits that price, i'm going all in.

I think you may be waiting a while on that one.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Idk, Before the 4830 there was nothing near that kind of performance for $100. It went as low as $63AR ($20R). It had nearly all the performance as a stock 4850 ($140 at the time) with an average overclock.

Who says that cant happen at the $99 price point.....?

 

[OCGuy]

Idk, Before the 4830 there was nothing near that kind of performance for $100. It went as low as $63AR ($20R). It had nearly all the performance as a stock 4850 ($140 at the time) with an average overclock.

Who says that cant happen at the $99 price point.....?

I just think that with all the fab issues that supply is never going to be so overstocked that they will dump prices that much.

I picture it more like the CPU world, where Intel will just leave the prices the same, even 12 months after the official EOL.

Kind of like the GTX285 with nV. Thing was still going for ~300+ retail even though 5870 was out.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Maybe not on 40nm, but sooner or later I think there will be overstock on some 58xx series cards and quite a bit on older Fermi cards.

Once the 5xx series comes out, I'm betting the 465's and 470's are going to be dirt cheap. Look at how low some GTX 260's have been over the past 6 months. I expect the same from Fermi 1 (GF100 I believe).