[Solved] Where to get 5850?

Nope. No ideas.

If I do have one I'll let you know after I place my order.

except 5850 is best price to performance to price to power consumption.

good luck m8 5850 is also 1.5 times faster than GTX275.

5850 is also the best card available now

correct me if im wrong

I'd just wait it out. I managed to snipe a 5850 last week off the egg. Wasn't going to buy anywhere else, don't like to pay taxes if I don't have to. Really enjoying it so far.

I don't know exactly what time the egg posts their new stock, buy try popping on at say just after midnight and see of you can sniper one.

If anyone is in Canada that is looking, I just ordered 2 of this card: http://www.extreme-pc.ca/showprodu [...] tid=373737 They also have the 5870 Sapphire, and 5850 Asus card available. If you go to the front page, on the right the have a zero-day deal on right now. The 5850 is only $264.99 after a $15.00 instant savings. i've never ordered anything from them before, but they are listed with the BBB Canada. I will post back after recieving them.

They ship to the US too. I was tempted to buy the sapphire 5850 from them, as it is the one I've been looking for, but shipping was going to cost $30 so I guess I'll just wait to order it from within the states.

I take it Prunestida doesn't live in the US, hence the high shipping cost.

The search continues. I snapped up one yesterday only to be sent an email by customer service later on that they had oversold and had to cancel my order. Keeping an eye out again for one that isn't $50-60 overpriced. If it wasn't for the noise factor, it makes the 5870 look more appealing @ ~375 compared to 5850's now at ~300-330

@xbonez, do you mean you should be paying 280 bucks for the 5850?

Availability Update:

ZipZoomFly is selling the HIS HD5850 for 269.99 and they are In Stock for now. grab yours ASAP. I'm getting mine, right away.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Prod [...] st=froogle

PS - free shipping too.

yeah, newegg does that. i think it happens when the card is sold out, but they haven't updated their page yet.

You can get the Sapphire Hd5870 from here, but its expensive. 410 bucks pus about 25 for shipping.
http://www.extreme-pc.ca/showprodu [...] menu3id=39

Received an auto-notify email from Newegg for Asus 5850, but sold out according to the website.

I guess I got lucky and grabbed one of the last few from ZZF.

XFX HD 5850 still available here for 289.99, but shipping is expensive
http://www.extreme-pc.ca/showprodu [...] tid=373737

this is madness

lol..anyways, keep looking for them. Newegg is probably not your best chance because of its popularity. The best way to get it is do a Google Product search. It'll show you vendor ratings also, so make sure you buy from someone reliable.

well, if u get started right about now, I'm guessimg you can come up with a Dx 11 card before nvidia

i got one a few days ago on newegg! it was a powercolor for 289 but at least i got it

I got my Sapphire HD5870 today from ExtremePC(Canada). It took a couple of weeks, but at least I got it. I will warn you guys though. If you do order from ExtremePC, you may have to wait a bit. They have a pretty big wait list right now. They just got a shipment of 5850's and 5870's in today, and they will be getting another next monday.(According to the forum moderator)

PS: The price has now been adjusted. So it is now higher. My card cost me $430 with shipping and tax, so I was one of the lucky ones.

Just got an asus 5850 off newegg today, but i was watching all day. I know it says the powercolor one is coming instock soon and the diamond one is coming in stock the 23rd, it took me the better part of the last week to track one down so best of luck. Got a message from amazon saying the xfx one would not be in stock before january.

memphis

All the 5850s in the market are reference cards, so brand is really not that important. The only reason you would worry about the brand for a reference card is if you ever happen to need their customer service. And as Powercolor goes, I don't have any personal experience, but I haven't heard anything too bad about them.

damn 350 bucks, I bought mine for 260 off the egg.

with that price, I rather pay $50 more and get 5870.

even @ $60 more I would still rather get the 5870.

It's available now on Newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] &x=15&y=29

Negative Sir, click on your refresh button =)

The only way you will get a 5850 or 5870 on the Egg is by clicking refresh every 2 seconds for 5 days strait... other than that you will not be able to get it in your cart =)

Well unfortunatley you will have to wait at least till Fermi is released cause to be honest the 5XXX series will not come down in price anytime soon. Not all cards go down in price as time goes by, look at the 200 series, same price for over a year and still no signs of a price drop... You also have to take into consideration that if the 3XX series is not up to par vs. what ATI has to offer, prices will go up, not down....

The 5850 at 350.00$ is priced just right due to most e-tailors are selling them for around 320.00/330.00$ shipped... paying 20 bucks more will not hurt anyone....