[Witchdoctor]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...D+6970&x=0&y=0

[DOM]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...CE&PageSize=20

[Chuchnit]

Looks like all they will be good for is gamer rigs. Right now it seems as if Nvidia will own pretty much the whole bench suite other than maybe AM3.

[Splave]

pretty good pricing imo people were selling used 5870s for a little under that

[Hondacity]

yeah i love the price on it....i wonder if they'll increase the pricing..coz right now its just soo tempting

[Hondacity]

one good thing i see is voltera...but not much caps..

on the screaming 6870...the used chil....

[Chuchnit]

Originally Posted by Hondacity

one good thing i see is voltera...but not much caps..

on the screaming 6870...the used chil....

To me it almost looks like a re-hash of the 5870 ref PCB?? Guess it's back to adding a ton of caps all over the place huh?

[Witchdoctor]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

Looks like all they will be good for is gamer rigs. Right now it seems as if Nvidia will own pretty much the whole bench suite other than maybe AM3.

Killer deal for gamers with twice the teselation preformance of the 5870 ....
I agree for benchers though not much of an invesment unless they get real popular and there is hardware bointage to be had, Globals will be owned by the the 580

I am glad to see nV finally beat AMD to the punch the 4 K series and 5 K series they have been calling the shots even though the nV late to the party cards have outpreformed them, main stream just not willing to upgrade for 5 or 10%

But nV is calling the shots here and if hind sight is 20/20 AMD will never release a mid line card first ..... dumb ass move if you asked me, even if they would have only beat nV by two or three weeks they could have held the crown for those two weeks over the 480 ....

Now the shoe is on the other foot and our next vid event will be Spring refreshes of these cards or will this force AMD to throw out some new tech in the second quarter ????

[Chuchnit]

I don't think we can really count on many refreshes since 28nm (next shrink) isn't even gonna hit production stage until H2 2011. Pretty much it will be what you see is what you get other than 6990 and maybe a dual Nvidia card. Oh and it should give partners plenty of time to come up with custom cards.

[Witchdoctor]

Originally Posted by Chuchnit

I don't think we can really count on many refreshes since 28nm (next shrink) isn't even gonna hit production stage until H2 2011. Pretty much it will be what you see is what you get other than 6990 and maybe a dual Nvidia card. Oh and it should give partners plenty of time to come up with custom cards.

OH NO not another MSI Lightning FAIL