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11-02-2009, 06:34 PM
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| <unknown level>    Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: AUSTRALIA
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| Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, on Monday said that it would increase the price of its ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics processing unit (GPU) by $20+ due to overwhelming demand... Story here Looks like I may need to pick up my new cards this week then if I want to avoid this price hike... I'm considering a pair of 5850's to run in cross fire or waiting for a 5850x2 card... (or whatever it will be called) I'm operating on the assumption here that adding two cards to my rig will only result in about 3 db of increased noise over just the one card... can anyone here confirm or deny that for me? (i'm not a sound audiophile myself)... So if one card is outputting around 47 db at load then two would be around 50... But I expect a x2 card would be quieter than 2 cards... so would be a better solution ... but how long before a 5850x2 comes out? New dual-GPU ATI Radeon 5970 spotted Over here they talk about a 5870x2 having been spotted... maybe I should wait for these x2 parts and just wear the extra $$... <sigh>
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11-02-2009, 09:16 PM
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| Just call me Dave  Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: San Diego
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing I'm glad I didn't wait any longer to get mine.
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11-02-2009, 09:24 PM
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| Seabees, USN-Retired  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Southern California
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing For once my timing was most correct!!!
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11-02-2009, 09:30 PM
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| ABX KNIGHT EXEMPLAR  Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: USA-GA
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing Yeah me glad, me got em, me whomp em, stomp em, 5870.... 
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11-02-2009, 10:13 PM
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| Eat Wild Pacific Salmon  Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alameda Ca
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing Me too got the 5870 vapor-x for $399....about the same price has the stantard model...should be here wed!
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11-04-2009, 05:00 PM
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing Hmm, with nVidia behind the 8 ball, I don't blame ATI for raising prices. AMD is in the win column on performance until Fermi makes it out (and it's likely going to miss the important Christmas season).
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11-05-2009, 10:20 AM
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| Lucky Amateur  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Virginia
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing I guess I can't blame ATI-----capitalism----the law of supply and demand----etc.... But here is what worries me..... Nvidia (I think) is becoming LESS able to compete.... And is starting to become the odd man out.... and just WHAT is there long term strategy???? They don't make CPUs----and their onboard stuff lags ATI by a margin... and in a world where computing is going commonplace to the point that---what is it----like 90% of the worlds computers use onboard video.... Just what are they going to sell? Seems to me that Intel is fine... AMD/ATI is fine----and their strategy to combine is starting to make sense and bear fruit... and Nvidia is in trouble.....Maybe not right now----but less than 3 years from now----they will be in bad shape unless they develop a STRATEGY We enthusiasts in this forum LOVE video cards------the rest of the world coudn't give a hoot..... and that's a LOT of folks......
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11-05-2009, 11:13 AM
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing Quote:
Just a thought...
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11-05-2009, 11:48 PM
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing Quote:
nVidia plans to drive 1/2 their revenue using the Terga platform (The Terga2 w/Arm9 make a pretty potent combo). And they plan on greatly expanding the GPU market starting with Fermi. And they still plan on making a range of video cards. They have the wrong product mix ATM, due to a combination of forecasting errors and the fact that TMSC's yields on 40nm parts have been well below expectations - ***** happens. I think nVidia will be looking much better in 6 months, at least with regards to their PC video lineup. Unfortunately they are leaving allot of money on the table this holiday season - some of which ATI will be happy to scoop up.
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11-06-2009, 07:33 AM
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11-12-2009, 04:54 PM
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| Re: Price War Reversed: ATI Increases Pricing Quote:
Oh and FWIW, prices are going up on all nVidia GTX 2xx cards right now as well. Normally prices would be going down, but both ATI and nVidia under-estimated demand.
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