Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
How real is this price drop anyway on the 5970?

http://computers.pricegrabber.com/vi.../st=query/rd=1

Provantage and mwave have similar pricing too.

All 5970's are 600+, except a single card and brand from newegg. In Canada, the price of all the 5970s are 600+ as well.

This just seems like a move from AMD to try to discredit value from the gtx 580, by giving newegg(and only newegg) a temporary special. If this was a real price drop, wouldn't other retailers be following suit and pricing it at 500 dollars? The fact that AMD highlighted this with a special memo makes this deal suspect.
A lot of those cards u listed from Pricegrabber aren't even in stock...likewise, on Newegg, the out of stock cards don't have a price change so go figure, it might depend on how the company prices/reacts on price