Worth waiting for R580?

[traldan]

Hmm. Should I pick up an X1800XT nowish, or wait a bit and get the X1900?

And any chance anybody knows when Newegg gift certificates expire? :P

[deathman20]

I don't know personally I'd wait and see what happens since its suppositly its coming out in what 2 weeks or less? Can't hurt to see what happens at least and see the preformance of them, in games not just 3D Marks.

If not the X1800XT might be slightly cheaper which is a win win situation at least :)

[Seabee]

I would wait. Deathman said it perfectly. Prices will likely drop the the X1800 once the X1900 comes out. If you dont like the performance difference, you can still pick that X1800 up.

Your wait is almost over.

[greenmaji]

The price of the X1800 is dropping and should hit bottom once the X1900 is hard released.. once the retail gouging of the X1900 is over the X1800 might see a slight drop in price again, but it should stay for a good while once it gets to that point..
this is just in case your talking about prices..
If its performance you want.. The pre-release specs on the X1900 make it a vastly superiour card (if it tests out it will ROCK!! :D )

[dawei213]

Wait for the price drop of the current generation of video card, not for the next latest thing. There is always "the next thing" once the new thing comes out.

But of course if you must have the latest thing, then by all means, get it when it comes out.

[hawtrawkr]

i just ordered a oem sapphire x1800xt to play with.

id read about the x1900 launching at the end of the month a few places but with ati i figure that means theyll be instock and available by march or may and i can just grab one then :)

[Chrome-]

From the specs I've heard, I'd wait for the R580 if you've got money to burn. Otherwise just buy an X1800XT.

[Overclocker550]

I would be upgrading your old p4 cpu to a fast a64 first :)

[traldan]

I would be upgrading your old p4 cpu to a fast a64 first :)

Well, if I had money to burn, there'd be a lot of things I'd be upgrading. ;)

[Overclocker550]

start saving up. I should too if I want to upgrade and overclock to 3.5GHz socket m2 a64 but this could be a couple years down the road. My cpu will be too slow for games by then

[greenmaji]

"2048 MB Corsair Valueselect PC2-4200"
with that in your sig. I would look tword a 920 pressler If you were going to upgrade right now..

[marscay]

i just ordered a oem sapphire x1800xt to play with.

id read about the x1900 launching at the end of the month a few places but with ati i figure that means theyll be instock and available by march or may and i can just grab one then :)

retailers have the cards this week to ship next week .....here in the UK.

pretty much confirmed as a hard launch :)

[Couger]

retailers have the cards this week to ship next week .....here in the UK.

pretty much confirmed as a hard launch :)


Where have you sourced this information my friend and also what online retailers will these new cards appear with first here in the UK as im hoping to get one next week

[marscay]

are you familiar with OC UK?

gibbo (employee) said they were receiving cards this week to ship next week ....he's normally pretty accurate

i'm hoping to pick one up too.

[bldegle2]

"My cpu will be too slow for games by then"

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

not to worry, since you really don't game, i am sure your present setup will serve you well into the future.

seems you got everything you want, high end vid card, and A64 939 CPU that seems to smash others into the ground(especially ANYTHING Intel has), some of the best ram going, and did i mention the extra step you went to cool the CPU with that stock cooler?????

yeah, you got me worried now..............is my rig enough???? i sure hope so, oh the madness.......

baldy

[Couger]

are you familiar with OC UK?

gibbo (employee) said they were receiving cards this week to ship next week ....he's normally pretty accurate

i'm hoping to pick one up too.

is that http://www.overclock.co.uk
or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/

cheers Cougs

[marscay]

sorry man

its overclockers

i prefer to buy from overclock personally (good reliable guys) but there stock isn't always the fastest or broadest.

[Couger]

np at all man, thanks for the info ill be buying one for sure

Does anyone by chance have any kind of idea on UK prices on these cards

Cheers Cougs

[marscay]

i'd say ~£500 for the XTX and maybe 430-450 for the XT

[Couger]

sounds about right and what i was sorta thinking, hey who knows ATI may surprise and be under £399 or below for the XT :)

[Couger]

well this is odd, I just got of the phone from a guy called Scott from
http://www.overclockers.co.uk and he said that he couldnt comment on avaiablilty of the new cards and said they do NOT have any x1900 in stock,
he directly said they have trouble getting hold of the 1800's let alone the 1900

He advised me call in a couple of weeks,I told him ATI are pushing a hard launch and cards should be for sale from the 24th



Gibbo if you read this can you confirm if theres truth behind this, has your work got any of these cards

Cheers Cougs

[marscay]

heh that's weird....i think he just said that because they are still under NDA and if he told you they had cards they would probably get 1000 calls in an hour.

anyway read this comment from the man himself http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=6266839&postcount=61

theres a few more in the thread from him too


***update*** http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17525486

prices ^^^