seeing as how the x850xt pe isnt on agp. i think 6800 ultra is the best u can get :S
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goodness. God forbid they have some bad rep. Newegg has plenty themselves. stuff happens. im sure we can all did into the past and find places that have cancelled orders.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/134174
jeez...wuts with this "Newegg test" for things items that "exist". but ill try to play along. Since newegg has such a large supply of customers they mite not wanna start selling cheaply (cuz they do have it http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=14-131-297&depa=1) until they're sure they can deliver to a large number of ppl.
actually, why wud you be asking me that question? mebe u shud go ask newegg why they're selling it for so much when mom and pop stores along a street in Toronto are selling them for cheaper
EDIT: and WHY wud i want to order one? and note: wut i proved u wrong in was that the card itself was vaporware. and i did. or are u still saying that the item "doesnt exist"? needless to say, the numerous oem cards available certainly prove otherwise.
Who said anything about the past. Those stories of cancelled video card orders from futurepc were dated 26th of January 2005. They were also specifically the higher end cards [both Nvidia PCIE and ATI PCIE/AGP].D.D. said:
Newegg tends to get high end cards right as they become available. They were among the first to actually get the 6800GTs back in June.
It's not in stick with no ETA given on expected arrival date. However they do have the Sapphire X850XTPE OEM in stock...going for $700. I'd rather opt for SLI for that price.
Price gouging. Supply and demand. There's a high demand for these cards and practically no supply. These online vendors know they can get away with doing this, though since the cards tend to be out of stock all the time I don't see the point in it personally. Mom and Pop stores rely more on word of mouth and try alot harder to keep their limited customer base happy. Newegg couldn't care less, for ever person it turns away there will be 2 to take their place.actually, why wud you be asking me that question? mebe u shud go ask newegg why they're selling it for so much when mom and pop stores along a street in Toronto are selling them for cheaper
With that said I live in Los Angeles and none of the B&M stores have it the X800/X850s here. I've checked Good Guys, Best Buy, Circuit City, Frys Electronics, CompUSA...nothing. And no one has a clue when they'll get them either. So even if there are a few Mom and Pops stores out there that have this card the fact that all these major chain stores don't means the consumer base is practically nullified.
I OBVIOUSLY didn't mean vaporware as in the card doesn't exisit and its concept is from another dimension [it is in stock at Newegg right now after all]. I mean vaporware as in it's damned near impossible to come by and when you do come by it it'd be smarter to opt for a $500 6800U or $400 6800GT [ya, there are exceptions, but exceptions don't make quarterly profits]. As far most hardware sites are concered the PE = Phantom Edition.
Now if you recall this debate was never even about the X850 PCIE. I was talking about AGP. And I still stand by my statement, by the time the AGP version of these cards come around we'll be looking at the Next Generation of GPUs [R520, NV50]. ATI shouldn't have clocked these cards so high if their fabs couldn't get sufficient yields out of the core. Nvidia did this as well with the Ultra Extreme Edition. Clocked the cores too high to ever enter mass production. Another Vaporware card.
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