amd's/2900 for sale here

Wow $429, looks to be more even more expensive than 8800GTS 640MB.

Availability: In Stock !

# 500W+ power supply or 750W+ power supply for Crossfire configuration (two cards)
# Either two 6-pin (2x3) power cables or one 6-pin plus one 8-pin (2x4) power cable. 8-pin power supply cable is only required for users wishing to enable Overdrive.

What is Overdrive ?

It's TigerDirect, what did you expect?

Yes i know what are you seeing but have you see the Crysis hd trailer ? I personally think its worth it to spend like 500$ for a dx10 card and be able to play that kind of almost ( real life ) graphical. You know they can't make card better and better because at the end we will reproduce real life graphic and what its going to be next ??? To be honest, i know i am a bit paranoiac, but i think some games wich required lots of gpu power ( some of them ) are really ugly graphic vs a game that you really fast and its better visual quality, i don't know if its intentionnal or something. Take a look at Win XP and Vista what you can't do in win xp that you can in vista except some little visual effet and the fact it need a more powerfull system to run it, i know vista point is DX10 but other then that.

Just went to "This item is no longer available". Rather bizarre to see that happen over the course of just a few minutes. Noticed something else: the ad says you can download and install the DirectX 10 update! Wondering if the ad was prematurely posted or perhaps was still in draft form.

Yeah, right.

From Tigerdirect:

"DirectX 10 Technology

DirectX 10 improves the graphics, security, and performance of your operating system. Download and install this update for your Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP-based system."

DX10 isn't suppose to work with XP. Or am I missing something here?

$410 OEM at ewiz!

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=AT-2900XT

Anyone else find it strange that they are selling the cards to the public, but the press NDA is still in effect?? Wtf??

again: is this the only model now, or there will be more, cheaper cards showing up this days?

doesnt anyone else wonder why theyre not posting any of the packaging?

Because they don't have the official release info yet. My guess is that they're publishing information as soon as they get it and then someone else is pulling their hair out saying "you can't put that out!!!" You can bet that all of the retailers want to be the first to have the cards for sale.

It helps build suspense. Just look at how many people are watching the threads with baited breath to see what news and speculation the next hour will bring

If you click on the OP's link, this is what you get. What I find is hilarious is that all the choices they bring up on the first page are Nvidia cards.

RAM isn't everything though, and if it gives you higher FPS than the 8800GTS 640MB who cares? (I really hope for ATI/AMD that it does)

Try playing Oblivion with any level of detail then come talk to me. Once you put your system through that you'll know why you need a 2900.

BTW, on a side note, this place says they have 40 in stock:
http://www.costcentral.com/proddet [...] 6/froogle/

I'd rather have a 8800GTX or look for best price/performance ratio in the high end cards.

Yeah NewEgg also has it for $330 after a $30 mail in rebate.

Yeah. That's one BEAST of a value if you ask me.

And even better yet:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130082

$279.99, $259.99 after MIR.

I have taken that killer deal on the 8800GTS, if only Nvidia's vista drivers worked.

I still think it's worth it to get 2-320's in SLI over just about anything else.

If that's true, good to know.