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» Radeon HD 4870 X2 price cuts begin to kick in

Yesterday in the EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Plus article I reported on the price cuts ATI was trying to initiate with their board partners and retailers. At the time, Sapphire/Newegg were the only ones onboard with the plan. Today is a new day though and more cards are available with the new 4870 X2 pricing, although Newegg is still the only retailer carrying the cards in stock.

Sapphire's 4870 X2 is still available for $450, with a $50 mail-in rebate bringing the price down to $400, while this board from HIS is priced at $450, but their mail-in rebate is just $15 bringing the price down to $435. PowerColor's 4870 X2 card is also now $450, with a $20 MIR available bringing the total price down to $430.

And what about the GeForce GTX 295? So far, four graphics boards have hit Newegg, with prices starting at $500. The Zotac and BFG cards are selling at the MSRP of $499.99, while ASUS' offering sells for $10 more at $509.99. EVGA's factory OC'ed GeForce GTX 295 Plus is also priced at $509.99.

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Click to view FSgeeK's User Page FSgeeK (574)  Click to view FSgeeK's User Profile Talk to FSgeeK in the Shout! Box Jan 11, 2009 - 07:39 pm
400-500 bucks in todays economy is wayyyy to much coin to shell out for a stupid video card.

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Click to view Soldier37's User Page Soldier37 (134)  Click to view Soldier37's User Profile Talk to Soldier37 in the Shout! Box Jan 09, 2009 - 05:03 pm
LOL i remember back in 1990 I bought a 512 kb huge memory stick the size of todays graphics cards for my Commodore Amiga it was $300. It gave me a whopping 1mb of Ram. But I was cool as I am now with 16gb of DDR3 and the 4 core i7 at 3.2 Ghz

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Click to view FSgeeK's User Page FSgeeK (574)  Click to view FSgeeK's User Profile Talk to FSgeeK in the Shout! Box Jan 11, 2009 - 07:35 pm
can only go up to 12 gb of ddr3 dipshit

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Click to view Phirewind's User Page Phirewind (894)  Talk to Phirewind in the Shout! Box Jan 13, 2009 - 10:20 am
We always knew he was full of fail. He probably still runs a p2 celeron and a 3Dfx card.

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Click to view Samuel71's User Page Samuel71 (203)  My XFire username is: Samuel71 Click to view Samuel71's User Profile Talk to Samuel71 in the Shout! Box Jan 09, 2009 - 07:33 pm
Only 3.2 GHz!? :D

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Click to view pidge's User Page pidge (504)  Talk to pidge in the Shout! Box Jan 09, 2009 - 03:33 pm
I remember paying $350 for 8MB of system memory.

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Click to view FatFunkey's User Page FatFunkey (1)  Click to view FatFunkey's User Profile Talk to FatFunkey in the Shout! Box Jan 09, 2009 - 01:37 pm
I remember when top of the line cards cost 299-399
._. then again it was a new highend card every 6months

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Click to view Cool.DK's User Page Cool.DK (211)  Click to view Cool.DK's User Profile Talk to Cool.DK in the Shout! Box Jan 09, 2009 - 01:02 pm
I remember paying $400 for a 512 KB memory expansion for a graphics card. And back then $400 was a lot more money.

I love it that computers has become so cheap. The only downside is the piles of computer trash - just consider the hundreds of millions of CRT monitors, cases, mice.... in prices was higher more older stuff would still be used instead of polluting.

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Click to view FSgeeK's User Page FSgeeK (574)  Click to view FSgeeK's User Profile Talk to FSgeeK in the Shout! Box Jan 11, 2009 - 07:38 pm | Edited on Jan 11, 2009 - 07:38 pm
theres a guy in this country that owns a business that breaksup all that crap and takes the metals off the circuit boards, metals like gold and copper, and he makes a fortune. Again proving one mans trash is another mans mansion.

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Click to view Yoshi's User Page Yoshi (2319)  Click to view Yoshi's User Profile Talk to Yoshi in the Shout! Box Jan 09, 2009 - 02:25 pm
That is the nature of all things though. From tee shirts to campain pins they all become junk after a year or so.

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