Welcome to the year of the rat!

lol Gddr2...disappointing.

But it's a novelty :D

this is crazy, i wonder when will we have the year of the giraffe?

haha lol I remember when u post about the pig, they must be bored

I think this is according to the chinese custom, here's the order of the animals: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. According to chinese, every year represent a animal for whatever reason, this year is the rat year so PowerColor made this card Funny though PowerColor coming out with all this funny stuffs.

anything to sell low end cards?

@wyz135
You think correctly sir!

i only have to wait 3 more years then for my sign :)

come on ATI hang in there !

@ultima don't worry, ATi won't fall, it's kicking nvidia's ass now

So 2009 will be the year of the Ox, right?
Does that mean we'll be seeing triple-slot cooling?

Oh, man. 2009 is also the year of fire...

@jimday
I don't think Chinese astrology has giraffes in it, but have you tried speaking to the Bushmen of the Kalahari?
Or is that the year of Coca-Cola bottles?
Nah, the gods must be crazy.

Cheeky .

@wyz135

Nvidia's still doing better than AMD (ATI) financially

I hope they beat Nvidia next round of cards too
They really need the money after getting their butt kicked by Intel's Core 2

In for 1. Going to hang each of them up in my zen garden as they come out :P

@wyz135
ATI is only doing well in bang for the buck; rumors have surfaced of a GTX280X2, which if it doesn't melt, will destroy the 4870X2.

@aVaLaNcHe I think it will be called the GX2 280 instead of GTX 280 X2 according to nvidia naming system

@avalanche - do you honestly believe that they will release a card that eats 450W ?

@aVaLaNcHe

if you've checked reviews of 4870 X2 vs 280 SLI and 280 x3....that there is limited amount on return, only a few games that the 280 sli setup does well in and really the gtx 280 x2 is just a sli setup so we already know how they'll do. and if they cost nearly 800.00....the 4870 x2 is still a far far better buy

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15293/1


@wyz135, i'm just worried about AMD overall, the company as a whole has to survive for ATI division to continue

Actually , 900-1000 USD , not just 800 for a GTX280 SLi setup .
So a GX2 would cost like 800-1000 USD .

@Radiator

They probably won't price it higher than two separate GTX 280's. If they do it won't be by much. For example the 9800GX2 was ~$600 at launch when the predecessors (8800GTS G92) could be had for $250-275.

@ultima

I wasn't saying that the 4870X2 still wouldn't be the better buy, I was stating that the green team would probably get the performance crown back. And considering that I've heard that a GTX260 SLi setup is on par with a 4870X2, and a new dual GPU chip from nVidia could drive the 260 prices down, big green could be getting a bang for the buck card again.

Just another part of the price wars.

@avalance - you do realise , that they are selling the current GT200 cards without a profit , at the moment .

Wow! Things must be kinda slow in the video card new department......