Quote Originally Posted by AliG View Post
you aren't taking into account that if the 8800gt is $50 more there, than you should expect the 4850 to be roughly $75-$100 more there at launch, then drop to being $40-$50 more
Mate, i'm sorry if my post is rather unclear, but the card IS already in distribution aka being sold in my country for 220 US$, so that is THE FACTO launch price for this particular card in my country, clearly undercutting some of the most expensive 8800 GT (the factory preOCed edition), 8800 GTS, and 9800 GTX. But i do expect some price cut from the nVidia's distros soon.

Nevertheless, this is a good effort from ATi distros here, since in the GD 3870 launch, they had made many ATi fanATics disappointed by overpricing them considerably, relatively compared to other countries price for RV670 card at that time. In December, i decided to go for the cheapest 8800 GT 512 MB at that time, since the cheapest HD 3870 was actually slightly more expensive compared to the one that i bought back then.