Thursday, September 17th 2009
Radeon HD 5870 1 GB Gets First Listing
Nearly a week ahead of its launch, Dutch retailer Salland Automatisering briefly listed a Radeon HD 5870 1 GB accelerator from a now-masked manufacturer (we are fairly sure it's Sapphire, looking at its part number "21161-00-50R" that resembles the part number scheme of other products from this manufacturer). Since Salland's pricing is usually consistent with those of other major European retailers, it gives a coarse indication of what you would have to pay for a Radeon HD 5870 1 GB: 268.90 EUR (excluding taxes), 319.99 EUR including taxes applicable in The Netherlands. AMD's Radeon HD 5870 1 GB accelerator is slated for September 23. It also comes in a 2 GB variant priced slightly higher, and an Eyefinity Edition planned. Salland was quick to withdraw the listing.
Source:
Hardware.info
56 Comments on Radeon HD 5870 1 GB Gets First Listing
Am I just crazy but WhThFk CARES what it LOOKS like?!?!?
It's not a HAT you stupid asses - it's a VIDEO PROCESSOR , it goes INSIDE the black box on your desk and nobody, not even you, sees it ever again.
Personally I'd care far more what its FPS : DOLLARS ratio is & cant see how what it looks like has anything at all to do with that.
But perhaps I'm just the stupid one.
I send my product where i bought it, 2 days till it comes there, 1 day test time, 2 days back.
Asus own support used 6 weeks per rma as comparison.
WDC direct uses 3 weeks, from CANADA to norway.
We have the great law, if a shop sold you it, they do the service, no matter what, you should only commit to dealing with the retailer/e-tailer.
It's the best law there is ever, No issues with companies with bad rma.
Sapphire has one of the lowest RMA rates, wouldnt say thats bad quality.
they might look okey, but people are way to concerned about looks inside the computer, and most of them fail to actually place cables right.
Plain black boxes didnt exist for the better part of the 90's.
Ima gonna get one but i prolly wait for a price drop. Shops are gonna screw the consumer because windows 7 is coming out and people want DX11 so prices will be higher than 4870 especially if you dont live in the US. We always get shafted with new tech.
I'm quite happy with the HD3850 I bought from moonpig for the moment, can't run everything maxed out but it can play fear maxed out which is fun XD
Shops will try and murk people the first week or so though.
www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15434/1/
Did a little search
Its not worth being on the bleeding edge of technology, it progresses to fast!
Will grab one of these when they hit about the 200 pound mark.
I'm not talking about Quality most card are they same that any other company gets.
To me, these just look more like Nvidia cases than ever.
The first is , the blured out picture you can , but really hardly see Sapphire , the S , pp , an e are seen quite well if you look hard.
And also from this image , the censoring line does not cover the whole word , the bottom tips of " pp " are visible. So that's definately sapphire if it would not be known , of course , thank google cache.