Now that we know when new cards are launching I wanted to know your opinions. Will you buy one? Or two? Or you won't? Myself, I'm diverting all my resources to get them once they come out, and depending on the price I will buy either one or two.
probably a 470, if that's too expensive (more than £250) then i'll simply wait it out. there's no point in buying the best, that's why i also didn't buy 5870 since that was the best, thus very expensive. i really hope 480 will be the best single GPU out there, then 470 will perform the same as 5870, where price war will kicks in.
No. No one is because their gonna be rare as rocking horse sh**. Personally i'm waiting for Fermi based GPU's to launch purely to see what it'll do to ATI's prices. I expect ATI have plenty of profit headroom so I expect them to price aggressively once the new green team GPU's. As i've said from the start, this will be 4870 vs GTX280 all over again.... what was the better buy that generation?
If the pricing is around the 5series ATi cards then yes, im not an ATi fanboy but after going from a 4870 to a gtx275 id rather have the new nvidia card tbh.
I have yet to play a game on my 8800gtx that it could not handle. So going to wait awhile for the dx11 stuff to become a bit more main stream.
I'll be interested and keeping a keen eye on things. Have to keep reminding myself that whilst I have to use a 26 inch tv running at 1376x720 my ATI HD4850 is really more than sufficient. So until I save up for a new house, a loft conversion or my son leaves home, any of which gives me a office space to house a decent monitor requiring a new monitor, I'll just watch everyones posts as you inform us of your experiences. Lucky so and so's.
Possibly, i think i might hold off even longer. Depends how well the cards stack up when they drop. All signs point to many flaws with them.
When we have no idea wht the price is, or performance, or availability, or the competitions reaction. Anyone saying a definate one way or the other is IMO getting ahead of themselves This is pointless until we know. A) what the card will cost B) what it performs like as a GPU C) What availability will be like, if the yeilds are still low at the end of the year, ATi may well be hyping it's next gen. D) If Ati slash prices on thier range, then any one with common sense will re-evaluate. I currently run SLI'd "team green", and most of my cards have been Nvidia. BUT, there is no way I'd even commit to a probable until benchmarks, reviews and price has been sorted.
Not taking any chances; just ordered myself two HD5870's. Nvidia need to show and tell us more about their plans with this card.
I've got some money saved up specifically for a tri SLI 480 set up. However, I'll only buy them outright if they have at least 1.5GB RAM (I want my 8/16x anti-aliasing!). Failing that, I'll be waiting until a 2GB version comes along.
bit-tech/cpc podcast apparently will include some infomation about the GTX4xx series which comes out on monday
Got tired of waiting, annoyed by the tactics used with TWIMTBP and not impressed by PhysX or SLI - intentionally disabling AA when spotting an Ati card is scandalous. And I don't need the power - a midrange card will be plenty for 1280x1024 for a while yet, and a Fermi midrange card seems like it's still a long way off. For those reasons I bought a HD 5770 - my first Ati card. It's been faultless since I installed it 6 weeks ago and so far it's been nothing short of awesome.
