Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
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.
My evidence just prove that 4870 oc with improve cooling are less expensive than 260GTX even 192. That the point! Gainward 4870 GS in particular is less expensive than 260GTX. So deny this review because of 4870 GS price it's stupid.
4870 GS is cherry picked? Ok, now you know the card we have to buy