ATI and Reseller Rant

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Trinitrotoluene

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Someone answer these questions for me:

1. Where the hell is the x700xt?, websites were doing benchmarks on it two months ago! :confused:

2. Why do the big websites that always have great prices (zipzoom, newegg, tiger, nerds) charging $490 - $590 for an x800xt?

3. Why are there no x800xt's ever in stock at these resellers, even though the cards are 7 months old?

4. Why should we care about the x850 series cards when they are only pci-e, sound like freight trains, cost a fortune and show little performance increase over the current high end cards?

5. The radeon 9800 pro a year ago today was going for $285 and now it is going for $250? WTF? On the bright side, my radeon 9800 pro crashed last week, rma'd to newegg and they gave me $275 bucks for it! Originally they said the value was only $225 but I said that I would buy an x800xt when it came in stock if they gave me a refund of the original $292 price. However, none were in stock and they said they can't hold RMA's so we settled on $275. Now I need a new card but these prices are rediculous.

Supply and demand bla bla bla
 
Life Sucks :/

Demand is large... companies cant handle it. Its not just ATI. Nvidia has a large demand as well.
 
I agree. My biggest complaint on the X800 launch was that a huge number of otherwise reputable websites were falsely advertising the X800 Pro with an MSRP of $499 and offering a *discount* of $469. Gouging and lying in the same shot. I pity those who didn't know better and bought one. If it were me, I'd demand $100 back from the vendor.

Sounds like ATI is still having constraint and information issues with the launch of their various products. Could this really all be due to shortage in the water supply somewhere on the other side of the planet as was once claimed?
 
The prices at newegg are so bad sometimes that I think they buy the items at Fry's and resell. :p

You rant shouldn't just be limited to ATI. The 6800U launch was also botched. There's still limited availability to this day.
 
A little over a year ago the radeon 9800 pro was the best ati card out and it was going for around $300 dollars. Imagine the joy if x800xt pe's were at that price; I think that is even a bit high though.

this is a pretty good price on the nvidia quadro though: http://tinyurl.com/4f7nt
 
I wish there were more 8x AGP ATi cards. I didn't want to shell out $380 or whatever it is for a x800 Pro and there weren't any ATi cards around $200 from the new generation, so I got a 9800 Pro for $185. I'm not really one of those guys who bleeds ATi red...but I had an nVidia card and I just wasn't that happy with it.

On another note nVidia dosn't really have anything widely available for around $200 either. This must be both of the companys' way to try and dip into our pockets.

Hopefully we get some cards that are AGP and around $200 pretty soon...and don't like me to that XFX 6600GT cause I don't have one DVI monitor...let alone two.
 
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