New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

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Today my GTX 280 started to refuse to work with 3D/performance mode anymore and would always give me a textured pattern screen of doom as soon as I launch any game (or ATITools, Furmark etc) even below stock clocks so currently on my backup gfx card 7900GTO (wish I hadn't stuffed the 9800GT I got back from a 8800GT RMA replacement into my parents comp ). Buying a GTX 460 wouldn't be much of an upgrade at all and GTX 470 and GTX 480 are rather uninteresting to me and wouldn't either make sense buying a HD58xx card at prices STILL similar to its launch and so close to 68xx launch. Guess I just gotta hang in there for a while...

Haha, I know that feeling. Upgrading when you have a 4890/gtx275/gtx280 yet require extra cash for a >4890/gtx275/gtx280 performance is pretty sad

Just hoping that the least the 6000 series can do is drive prices down.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Haha, I know that feeling. Upgrading when you have a 4890/gtx275/gtx280 yet require extra cash for a >4890/gtx275/gtx280 performance is pretty sad

Just hoping that the least the 6000 series can do is drive prices down.

ATM I would be very happy with a HD6870 even if in my own guess it'll perform just slightly better than HD5850, it's the price of it ($250 TOPS or it wouldn't make sense) that makes it worth it and from a performance POV it'd still be a noteworthy improvement. It'll prolly allow some decent OCing too. A Cayman would look more logical change from a GTX 280 yes but I didn't spend a fortune on this GTX 280 anyway, it was bought 2nd hand for like 220 EUR. I think. It's prolly the last time I buy an EVGA tho, also had an EVGA GTX 260 SP216 OC (again bought 2nd hand) that got the same sympton as this GTX 280 and clocks just got more and more unstable until stock clocks weren't even stable anymore and only after maybe 10~11 months or so, ~15 months for the GTX 280.