ATI vs nVidia GPU Update

Alright so the 4870X2 came out this week! This is huge! Alright the prices on all of the other cards are doing just what I said they were going to do in my previous post (look for yourself). NVidia is going to slowly drop their cards prices to even out the price to performance ratio. As for ATI, they are just sitting back and letting all of the cash roll in. ATI is playing this out very smart. The new 4870X2 is hovering just below $600. This is the perfect sweetspot for this card. ATI will be able to keep it there until close to the holidays if they wanted to. Its not too expensive to disappoint the customers, but its expensive enough to rack in some serious cash. ATI is really naming names right now. They could have easily put this up close to $700, but they knew that in the long run they will be able to hold this price longer and have more consistent buyers. I just can’t wait to see what these things can do in crossfire!

nVidia on the other hand is going to have to drop their 280 cards. In fact im surprised they haven’t already. Why have a 280 ($450) when you can have a card twice as fast for just $100 more? I think nVidia is going to have these cards as expensive as possible until people just stop buying from them altogether. We can expect a price drop. But instead of the crazy drop like I had expected, I think it will be a slow and steady drop. They will try and squeeze every dollar they can out of the 280’s.

ATI is making very smart decisions right now and I expect them to keep it up. We will have to see how nVidia reacts to the loss of customers.

Feel free to comment

-Hunterx333

Price Cuts!!!!!

Ranting: Alright guys sorry for not posting in a while. My mobo (evga 780i) just randomly died….. PISSES ME OFF!…. Anyway has anyone noticed the huge price cuts for the 9800 cards?!?! I mean holy ****! The GX2 is hovering around $280 and the gtx is under $200. Something big must have hit nVidia financially. I mean i bought my 9800 gtx just a week before the 280 came out (mistake on my part) for $300 and now that same card is $220…. Every day these cards are dropping like crazy. By the holidays these cards will be in the $100’s. Especially if ATI keeps their lead on nVidia for price to performance.

Now i would also like to correct myself on a previous post… I said that ATI is kicking nVidia in performance. When i say that i mean single card solutions. But technically (if you have way too much money to spend) the tri sli 280’s destroy to 4870.

Recommendations: As of today if you had to build computer now i say dont. Wait for the 4870X2 and see how the price tags react. I see the 4870’s dropping a couple bucks, not much but enough to maybe get a nicer case or something. But what nVidia does could decide whether to buy from ATI or nVidia. If i were nVidia i would be preparing for a major hit financially. With the upcoming release of the 4870X2 people are sure to drop any old cards and pick it up. They shoiuld lower their prices on the 280 so that if you were to buy two of them it would be just a bit more expensive then one X2. This is because in a benchmark test between two 4870’s and two 280’s the 280’s would have a slight edge over ATI’s gift from heaven. But for nVidia this would mean lowering the price of the 280 to nearly $300. And im not sure if their manufacturers could manage such a large price drop in such a short amount of time.

Anyway i will be posting some vids soon about my computer parts and of the rebuild i have to do when i receive my new 780i. Feel free to comment on the fight between ATI and nVidia. It will be interesting to see where we are by the holidays…

XFX and EVGA Reimbursements

Today (I know im kinda late on getting this out) I’m gonna talk about the evga/xfx reimbursement program. I think the reimbursement program is pretty funny actually. Its kinda when apples iphone came out. They were expecting more people to go and buy it and when they didn’t reach the numbers they wanted BAM! they cut all the prices by $100. I think the same thing happened with xfx and evga. No one but the massive budgets of maxishine or trubritar could afford 1 not to mention 3 of these things.

But I must say this shows the quality of xfx and evga products. Cus see every company made these same cuts but only xfx and evga were nice enough to their customers to make a reimbursement program. I personally will stick with these companies for a very long time due to their amazing customer satisfaction.

ATI vs. nVidia GPU’s

First real post ever!!! Alright words been going around that nVidia is going through some major financial issues…. hence the outrageous price of the gtx280. ATI in my opinion has taken the lead in graphics cards. Their new 4870 is only a few frames per second off from the 280 and still has really immature drivers. Not too mention the fact that the 4870 is only $300! nVidia better be coming out with some pretty kickass drivers in order to compete with the soon to be 4870X2 which will have a cheaper opening price then the POS called the 280. If I were building a new system right now I would be going ATI all the way! Screw the 280 the 4870X2 is sure to be the fastest commercial (you never know what the governments hiding) gpu we’ve ever seen! ATI has brought the competition to a whole new level.

Check out my new post on ATI and nvidia and feel free to comment

-Hunterx333