Quote Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650 View Post
hmmm seems ok to me. GTX 580 performance at just below GTX 580 price with double the standard VRAM, good OC headroom, PCI-E 3.0 and lower power usage... whats not to like. people forget that when its better it costs more. look at the 5870 and 5850. they were really expensive when nvidia only had the GTX 285 type cards... this is EXACTLY the same thing. don't expect AMD to pricing these things out for $250.00 for no reason... people pay for things that are better. not to mention they have very competitive performance at the lower price points already. until team green brings something new to the table AMD has given us a better value.
Being able to unlock it to a 7970 will have me sold. $450 for top of the line performance really isn't a bad deal when you think about it. Not cheap, but certainly a nice investment