Are AMD HD 78xx Graphic Card prices likely to drop anytime soon?


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With the release of AMD Sea Islands GPU (HD 8xxx) this month (or the next?) are the prices of GPUs (7870 XT, specifically) likely to drop?

And that of current Ivy Bridges with the release of Haswell?

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No, because the 8000 series are a re-badge of the 7000 series with no upgrade; they're only for OEM's. AMD isn't planning on releasing a true successor to the 7000 series at least until Q4.

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They better don't. Some fanbois should learn the lesson the hard way. Several batches of 7850 and 7870 are pure shyte with their black screen problem driving people (and me) nuts.

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They better don't. Some fanbois should learn the lesson the hard way. Several batches of 7850 and 7870 are pure shyte with their black screen problem driving people (and me) nuts.

So what would you recommend instead of the 7870? The 660?

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So what would you recommend instead of the 7870? The 660?

I would not stay away from them completely. They're decent as far as performance goes. Just dig a lot, ask around, ask retailers directly - how many RMA cases with this problem have you experienced and will you change it, if the thing happens. And if they don't answer or refuse - find someone else and tell them so.

Interestingly, AMD is not to blame. The chip itself is fine, the reference design isn't. Sapphire, Powercolor and MSI, however, didn't care to follow orders. Others, maybe.

What's worse - no official recalls have been made. Just a lot of hush-hush "yea, it might have happened". Sapphire offers replacements half-heartedly, others don't even care. Meanwhile, people are tearing their hair out, because it's random and irreproducible on any test bench.

Edit: Sorry for overreacting, too. Just that there are people that claim this problem doesn't exist at all.

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That's the reason I only ever go XFX or AMD branded.

PowerColor are the worst brand ever, and people should know that by now since they've been around long enough.

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So what would you recommend instead of the 7870? The 660?

I have currently the 6850. I will be going to a 660 Superclocked (non ti) soon though.

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Nothing wrong with Powercolor, I've had 2GB Powercolor 7850 since the 7850 was released and I've had NO problems whatsoever apart from a fairly noisy reference cooler.

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Thanks for the input, much appreciated.

That's part of the problem, though. I wish you'd have stopped before declaring there's nothing wrong with that and that. There is. Especially in countries liek mine where a delivery of several pallets of such specific stuff sits in the warehouse for most of its lifecycle.

Detailed look on this: http://www.behardwar...a-solution.html

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It says nothing about elephants either. Therefore, elephants aren't the problem. pOpvZoB.gif

hahaha epic! I totally understand where you are coming from

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Why not just get a 8800 series card? Rumors are the 8850 will be $199 and will be 70% faster than the 7850 in compute performance. That's similar performance to a NVidia gtx 680 for $200.

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I have the Sapphire 7870 OC Ghz Edition and overclocked it to 1200MHz Core stock voltage

I just ran an Extreme HD (Maxed out 8x AA) Unigines Valley benchmark across 2 x 1080p LCDs in Eyefinity (3840x1080) and it didn't do too badly

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