View Full Version : Prices Starting To Drop on 5000's Series Cards
UberRN69
03-31-10, 01:16 PM
As I was hoping for, prices on 5850's and 5870 have started to come down. So far only $20-$30 on Newegg, but it's a start. I'm hoping NVIDIA will price the GT470 well, which will start a price war. Once I can get a HD5870 or GT470 in the $275-$300 range, I'm going to pounce. I know that's probably a few months away, but I can wait. My 4870 holding up for the moment.
As I was hoping for, prices on 5850's and 5870 have started to come down. So far only $20-$30 on Newegg, but it's a start. I'm hoping NVIDIA will price the GT470 well, which will start a price war. Once I can get a HD5870 or GT470 in the $275-$300 range, I'm going to pounce. I know that's probably a few months away, but I can wait. My 4870 holding up for the moment.
To be honest I don't think you will see 5870's hit the $275-$300 range. The card easily outperforms the GTX 470, which is priced at $350.
I was hoping for a price war too. But Nvidia's cards came in at price points that don't really set the stage for one. The GTX 480 is at $500, quite a bit more than the 5870, and the 5850 and GTX 470 (which are on par performance wise) are at the same price point as well.
That being said, I just bought an XFX 5870 from Newegg for $415. They just got them in stock last night and they are sold out already. Luckily I purchased mine this morning. It's already shipped and on its way to me. :)
UberRN69
04-01-10, 01:29 AM
To be honest I don't think you will see 5870's hit the $275-$300 range. The card easily outperforms the GTX 470, which is priced at $350.
Ah... shiznut. Well hopefully at least in the mid $300's maybe? I have only put off this long for the whole price war thing.
I can hold out but... not... much... longer. Only by spending my extra $$$ on home theater stuff have I been able to keep me from falling into a "must upgrade":zombie3: psychosis.
Newegg does have a SAPPHIRE Vapor-X HD5870 1GB for $420 ATM, it was $480 only last week... must look away.
Redeemed
04-01-10, 01:50 AM
I honestly expect prices to stabilize about where they are. I figure AMD will price their cards just slightly below nVidia to make them that much sweeter to potential customers. And for every price drop nVidia does you can bet AMD will counter. And the fact that manufacturers are selling cards above MSRP and are making a killing means AMD has probably won the hearts of many of the card manufacturers which will only help them in the long-run.
Anyhow, I don't think prices will rise much, if any. In fact, I'd sooner expect them to drop ever so slightly still. :)
JaxMacFL
04-01-10, 07:53 AM
Ah... shiznut. Well hopefully at least in the mid $300's maybe? I have only put off this long for the whole price war thing.
I can hold out but... not... much... longer. Only by spending my extra $$$ on home theater stuff have I been able to keep me from falling into a "must upgrade":zombie3: psychosis.
Newegg does have a SAPPHIRE Vapor-X HD5870 1GB for $420 ATM, it was $480 only last week... must look away.
I wonder if the main reason Sapphire is selling the 5870 1GB so low right now is to try and clear out some of its current inventory before releasing the 5870 2GB TOXIC, which doesn't have the six displayports like the eyefinity 6 edition. Thats the one I'm waiting on. Maybe get two or one and a 5970 4GB.:)
bacon12
04-01-10, 11:40 AM
That being said, I just bought an XFX 5870 from Newegg for $415. They just got them in stock last night and they are sold out already. Luckily I purchased mine this morning. It's already shipped and on its way to me.
I have been shopping for an XFX 5870 for weeks, stock in these cards is crazy low. I will never run a 6 way eyefinity so that doesn't matter to me. I may go ahead and get a gigabyte instead.
Once 5830 hits just below $200 I'm SO on it. :p
Ninja Prime
04-01-10, 04:40 PM
I have been shopping for an XFX 5870 for weeks, stock in these cards is crazy low. I will never run a 6 way eyefinity so that doesn't matter to me. I may go ahead and get a gigabyte instead.
Funny, couple months ago when I bought mine, XFX was the only brand they ever had in stock. :D
bacon12
04-01-10, 05:24 PM
Can't beat the resale value of a card that has a brand new lifetime warrantyfor the new owner. :P I also found their CS to be pretty freakin good, and they have tech reps that will respond to forum threads on several sites.
kaptkarl
04-01-10, 05:32 PM
I bought my Powercolor 5870 card last week from zoomfly for $394 shipped. A fair deal for an awesome card.:D
Kapt
bacon12
04-01-10, 06:15 PM
Yea that is a great deal, the only thing I am actually debating now is if it will really be worthy to upgrade from 2x gtx 260s for my resolution. BC2 is getting really nice numbers with the 5870 which is what I am playing now.
Probably be about $100 to upgrade after I sold the old cards.
Yea that is a great deal, the only thing I am actually debating now is if it will really be worthy to upgrade from 2x gtx 260s for my resolution. BC2 is getting really nice numbers with the 5870 which is what I am playing now.
Probably be about $100 to upgrade after I sold the old cards.
I'd wait for the refresh. I'm running a single 4870 and that's my route. Besides, that's a pretty potent set up. Wouldn't mind having 2 260s myself.
Blacklash
04-01-10, 07:45 PM
I bought my Powercolor 5870 card last week from zoomfly for $394 shipped. A fair deal for an awesome card.:D
Kapt
Got two of the same to go with the 5870 I already had.
Locally 5870's have gone down to as low as $500AUD and 5970's have finally come down under $1000 with some selling for around $900AUD. When supplies were at their lowest average prices were $600 and $1100, so these price drops are very good. :)
Blacklash
04-01-10, 08:49 PM
2Gb cards are right @ 500usd on Newegg.
That's alittle much for me. I'd have to replace my old 1Gb 5870 so that would be 500x3 for triple Crossfire. Heck you could go 480SLi for 1k.
kaptkarl
04-01-10, 09:55 PM
2Gb cards are right @ 500usd on Newegg.
That's alittle much for me. I'd have to replace my old 1Gb 5870 so that would be 500x3 for triple Crossfire. Heck you could go 480SLi for 1k.
No need to go the 2gb cards right now. Benchmarks comparing 1gb vs 2gb 5870's only showed a few fps increase.
Kapt
Blacklash
04-02-10, 01:30 AM
No need to go the 2gb cards right now. Benchmarks comparing 1gb vs 2gb 5870's only showed a few fps increase.
Kapt
I've p!ssed away enough cash on computer hardware. If triple HD 5870 Crossfire @ 900|1250 can't play it well, I won't be bothering with it.
No need to go the 2gb cards right now. Benchmarks comparing 1gb vs 2gb 5870's only showed a few fps increase.
Kapt
it depends if they actually did push the res up or not.
but from the review i saw on the other site where they got hold of a 2gb...they missed out on GTA4, which would have given a good idea of how the extra memory would have played out...
i mean for crying out loud...they had MW2 in the test...
Any review of the 2GB cards that doesn't show min framerate is retarded.
kaptkarl
04-02-10, 05:49 AM
it depends if they actually did push the res up or not.
but from the review i saw on the other site where they got hold of a 2gb...they missed out on GTA4, which would have given a good idea of how the extra memory would have played out...
i mean for crying out loud...they had MW2 in the test...
True. I hear GTA4 is one of a very few games that runs out of vram on 1GB cards at very high settings. It would be nice to see what a 2GB 5870 could do with that game.
Kapt
If you get a 5870 definitely go with Visiontek or XFX. Only two manufacturers I could find with lifetime warranties. The dual lifetime warranty on XFX cards is awesome.
methimpikehoses
04-08-10, 11:24 AM
Visiontek RMA process was not great. Just putting it out there.
bacon12
04-08-10, 12:55 PM
If you get a 5870 definitely go with Visiontek or XFX. Only two manufacturers I could find with lifetime warranties. The dual lifetime warranty on XFX cards is awesome.
I would be very careful, I have heard their non reference cards use sh!t components. Its really hard to find the reference cards right now, I would love to have one. I think I am just gonna wait, $500 for a 2gb card or the MSI one that can clock like crazy is just to much money IMO. Maybe the new refresh will make me want to spend some money, or nvidia will be putting up better numbers in the game I will most likely be spending all my time, and competing in for the next 6-8 months.
I am getting ok framerates with sli 260s so not a great concern.
JasonPC
04-10-10, 12:52 AM
From what I read ATI is not dropping the prices. Any drop in price is coming out of the vendor's profits. So don't expect to see much of any downward trend. From what I've seen there was a gap in availability since many vendors started selling the non-stock coolers (one with the fan in the middle instead of the squirrel cage fan at the end).
kaptkarl
04-10-10, 07:24 AM
From what I read ATI is not dropping the prices. Any drop in price is coming out of the vendor's profits. So don't expect to see much of any downward trend. From what I've seen there was a gap in availability since many vendors started selling the non-stock coolers (one with the fan in the middle instead of the squirrel cage fan at the end).
Yeah ATI has no reason to drop prices. Thier cards are great performers and are competitively priced already, so why drop the prices right?? Nvidia has alot of work to do to get their cards competitive again price vs performance with ATI's best.
Kapt
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