Breaking News: AMD HD 7970 Price Drop

[EWP]

We all sort of knew this was coming, especially with the 680GTX being as strong as it is.

After weeks of dealing with a retail price that put their HD 7970 in a no-win position against the GTX 680, it looks like AMD will finally cut their flagship card’s price. [...]

[...]The whispers we have heard from a number of sources peg the HD 7970′s new price at some point between $470 and $490 within the next few days. In our books, this would put AMD’s Tahiti XT in a favorable position against the GTX 680, particularly when the board partners’ numerous overclocked and custom cooled versions are taken into account [...]

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...drop-incoming/

EDIT ADDED...again:
Final New Prices:

Radeon HD 7970 : $549 to $479
Radeon HD 7950 : $449 to $399
Radeon HD 7870 : $349 (No Change)
Radeon HD 7850 : $249 (No Change)
Radeon HD 7770 : $159 to $139
Radeon HD 7750 : $109 (No Change)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5754/r...promos-inbound

Pretty good spot to be in against the 680GTX.

[Gr33nGecko]

Can you lend me $480 ? LOL ..

[EWP]

^-^ Sure!! :: opens wallet...moth flies out ::

[Gr33nGecko]

Hey, .. Moths are currency here ..!! Hope they weren't white ones, you'd get like $150 per moth !!

[EWP]

^-^ Looks like the price drop has been implemented!! (Probably was implemented a few days ago, but I wasn't paying attention.) Go at it on-the-fencers!!

[SolidEther]

That is a decent drop, unfortunately that might as well be like a $1,080 to a $1,000 price drop. To me right now there both out of reach,but my 6970 is still boss powerful and it will do until I can save loot for my upgrade time. I still may get better overall system performance from a HDD to an SSD upgrade now anyway, probably a little cheaper and a more noticable total system increase.

[Rubenoa]

unfortunately that might as well be like a $1,080 to a $1,000 price drop.

Or $1,080 to $999......the marketting price tags mate

[SolidEther]

Hahaha LOL Rubenoa.. Yup $999.00 sounds much better than $1000 thats why marketing genious came up with the .99 so they never have to say the larger number and it tricks you (supposedly) into thinking its a lower price.