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Soleron on 28 April 2009

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3553

AMD launched the HD4770 today, their first 40nm desktop chip, which performs the same as the HD4850 give or take 5% and costs $99 after rebate. Typical power consumption is also 20% lower than the HD4850. The chip was intended to replace  the HD4830 but performance is so much higher that really you would buy it instead of an HD4850. It also beats all of Nvidia's non-GTX2xx offerings across the board.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3554

Also today, AMD launched a 2.8GHz Phenom-based dual-core called the Athlon X2 7850, at $69. Anandtech compared it to Intel's nearest offering, the $74 Pentium E5300, and concluded that for a gaming box you should choose the Athlon and anything else the Pentium.

 



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disolitude on 28 April 2009

Cool...

Wait not cool considering I paid 200 bucks for 4850



Khuutra on 28 April 2009

Oh wow

I guess now would be a good time to build my own computer, then.



vlad321 on 28 April 2009
Khuutra said:
Oh wow

I guess now would be a good time to build my own computer, then.

 

After Barcelona... just 12 more weeks, and if I'm not in a debt larger than my student debt I'm  getting myself a new PC. Sadly, I think I will be in such a huge debt. Then there's Valencia some time later....



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SnesTea on 28 April 2009
Soleron said:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3553

AMD launched the HD4770 today, their first 40nm desktop chip, which performs the same as the HD4850 give or take 5% and costs $99 after rebate. Typical power consumption is also 20% lower than the HD4850. The chip was intended to replace  the HD4830 but performance is so much higher that really you would buy it instead of an HD4850. It also beats all of Nvidia's non-GTX2xx offerings across the board.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3554

Also today, AMD launched a 2.8GHz Phenom-based dual-core called the Athlon X2 7850, at $69. Anandtech compared it to Intel's nearest offering, the $74 Pentium E5300, and concluded that for a gaming box you should choose the Athlon and anything else the Pentium.

 

 

Am I reading this correctly? The CPU for 69 dollars?

 



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Soleron on 28 April 2009
disolitude said:
Cool...

Wait not cool considering I paid 200 bucks for 4850

It's half the size due to the 40nm shrink so naturally it's half the cost. I have an X1950 PRO which was "liek best midrange card evar" for about 5 minutes. Now it sucks.

 



Soleron on 28 April 2009
Snesboy said:
Soleron said:
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Also today, AMD launched a 2.8GHz Phenom-based dual-core called the Athlon X2 7850, at $69. Anandtech compared it to Intel's nearest offering, the $74 Pentium E5300, and concluded that for a gaming box you should choose the Athlon and anything else the Pentium.

 

 

Am I reading this correctly? The CPU for 69 dollars?

 

Yes. Well, the lowest current street price is $74, but AMD is listing it as $69 so prices should drop to that shortly. The 2.7GHz version is only $60 too.