Sapphire HD4850 X2: Price and loudness reduced

[onethreehill]

Sapphire announced in a press release that the prices for the two HD4850 X2 models have been reduced. Furthermore the cards are quieter than before.

Sapphire has officially reduced prices for its exclusive Ati Radeon HD 4850 X2 - currently there is no other manufacturer offering this dual CPU graphics card. The 2 GiByte version now costs 280 Euro, the 1 GiByte version 240 Euro. The price comparison of our German website confirms this information - however, there the cards are much lower priced than at the time of release.

Source: PCgameshardware

[masterg]

bought mine for $280

[ToTTenTranz]

bought mine for $280

280€ is about $360.

You've allways had better prices, why the long face?

[Riggs]

Nice price as much as 4870 1g!

[masterg]

well it went from $280 to $340, fell back to $290 now its "cheaper" and will fall more

[Glow9]

Why has Sapphire been the only ones with the 4850x2s out?

[StalkingButcher]

Sapphire made the card, it wasn't an AMD design. AMD gave freedom of movement to its card sellers/manufacturers so they could do what they wanted with the design, afaik.

[geo]

wow 234 for dual 4850 is killer imo.. surprised there isn't much interest in this.

[spursindonesia]

I think, up to this moment, there's no real support from AMD for HD 4850X2 card, outside Sapphire which could be considered biggest ATi partner, no other partner is willing to take the risk producing and supporting this card.

[Linux_Box]

With only one maker of the x2 card, there's no competition to reduce the price. Hopefully it will come down in price naturally over time.

[Ket]

Cheapest I found the 4850 X2 1GB for here is £243 plus postage.. tad overpriced imo.

[Klarko]

With only one maker of the x2 card, there's no competition to reduce the price. Hopefully it will come down in price naturally over time.

and over time better cards will come out :P