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Can't wait to see them. The $500 7950's on newegg, for just $50 more you can get the real deal.
But those are oc version with custom fans
These cost $599 for 7970
Well yes, but have you seen how gimpy the tiny little cooler on the oem 7950 is? It doesn't even cool the memory or the vrm's from what i've seen.
Can't wait to see them. The $500 7950's on newegg, for just $50 more you can get the real deal.
Yeah, I agree 100% with that. If the 7950 is ~ GTX 580 performance with 3gb vram and a $399 price tag they would sell like hot cakes.
Maybe they are saving the $350-$399 for 1.5gb versions?
Completely agree, I can't see the 7950s selling well at this price. I suppose they are trying to capture the "first on the block" market, but the first on the block market already picked up a 7970.
Yeah, seems strange. They are 50% more expensive than 6970s, and the 7970 is only, what 50% faster itself. So the 7950 is probably going to be less than 50% faster than the 6970. What happened to the price of performance going down each generation?
Yeah, but we can all wish for a world where AMD prices their stuff based on its own merits, and not on the pricing of the competitor's product. Can't say I blame them, but as a consumer I don't like it.
I was pretty disappointed with the 7950 pricing. If i was in the market id just get another 7970 no question asked.
I'm very interested in seeing the official review, but right now I definitely don't regret pulling the trigger on the 7970.
I want to see the 7950 clocked at 7970 speeds and compared head to head as well as max overclocks head to head. That will give a good perspective as to how much you get from the $100 more for a 7970. Hopefully we see that in [H]ard's review later.
Damn. At that price, I might as well go big (7970) or go home.
But those are oc version with custom fans
These cost $599 for 7970
I would rather pay twice as much for whatever nvidia brings to the table.
Think they unlock like previous generation?
YAH! Let's see someone unlock one of these bitches!
lol @ prices...
I read in the article about the two 6 pins with the lay out for an 8 pin connector. Might just be the same PCB and everything, but with two 6 pin connectors and locked shaders because everything else is practically the same except clocks. I bet they might unlock .
According to a review on this website, he says the retail price coming in for the 7950 is $399. (in his final comments section)
They aren't unlockable.
It's a shame that A) the pricing is so high ($500 for the custom-cooled Sapphire card which HWC has reviewed nicely on noise/cooling) and B) that CrossFire has worse frametimes for the smoothness and more profile issues. They're nice cards otherwise by all accounts.
How do you know they aren't unlockable?
Every review so far says no unlock, plus Kyle posted something about AMD telling [H] they had a special hardware lock to prevent it. All previous rumors as well said it was cut off on a hardware level.
Oh I must have missed these posts. Damn .
Yup, here's the post I was referring to by Kyle: http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1038327378&postcount=20 .