Quote Originally Posted by AbelJemka View Post
Cherry picked chips? Prove that! No need to cherry picked chips for 25Mhz overclock
Most expensive 4870? Bull!
http://www.clubic.com/comparer-prix/...HD%204870.html
Regular 4870 512 200€
Gainward 4870 GS 512 235€
Palit 4870 Sonic 512 225€
Powercolor 4870 PCS+ 1Go 250€
Gainward 4870 GS 1Go 260€
http://www.clubic.com/comparer-prix/...GTX%20260.html
Less expensive 260GTX 240€
Less expensive 260GTX 216 255€
Your own evidence proves me correct.
Before you get to the gainward golden sample in order of increasing price, you go through the following names,
OEM
Sapphire
Powercolour PCS+
Club 3d
Palit sonic 3d
connect 3d
Regular gainward
Regular powercolour
Gigabyte
Asus extreme
Overclocked club3d
MSI overclocked
Then finally the gainward golden sample.
Then a regular MSI
and then you into the 1gb 4870 which are supposed to be more expensive because they have more video memory.

Anything else that is more expensive and a 512 is only sold at a single retailer and is thus a bad representation of the actual price. E.g if you were going to try to find a pentium 4 northwood right now, you would only find it at a couple retailers and it would be priced at a cost much higher than its actual worth. It obvious that a overclocked MSI should be more expensive than a non overclocked one.

Gainward Golden samples are cherry picked according to gainward, I don't need any proof because gainward themselves say they cherry picked these chips. That was the starting philosophy of the golden sample editions. Gainward started the whole high binning thing with the golden sample, they kind of invented it and this was started years ago. There is a reason they are called golden samples.