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XFX set to release Radeon 3850 killer
AMD IS LAUNCHING Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 this coming Friday, and we wanted to hear from Nvidia partners how they might react to AMD's parts.
XFX came back to us and said it is launching its own Geforce 8800GT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory, for a retail price of 149 Euro, plus local VAT. This goes head to head against ATI Radeon HD 3850's surprising price.
Furthermore, this 8800GT is not manufactured by Flextronics, but rather XFX's in own production facilities.
If anyone needs proof that we need to have both Nvidia and AMD strong and doing battle, this is the best evidence you can get. Instead of 199 EUR plus VAT, the 256MB version is going to be 50 Euro cheaper, and this is nothing to be sneezed at.
The XFX version will come with traditional XFX box design, featuring the allmighty Alpha Dog, while the inner contents of the package will feature a traditional CD and a manual... sadly, no DX10 titles (such as Company of Heroes, which XFX ships in a dual DVD + DX10 patch CD format), since the price is very low. The card will hit the shelves next week. µ
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"And 8800gt is not DX10.1 but HD 3850 is DX10.1"

DX.1 doesn't really mean much, just forces higher IQ, correct me if I'm wrong though. 

DX 10.1 =

Mandatory 32-bit floating point filtering 
Mandatory 4x anti-aliasing 
Shader model 4.1 

HD 3850 will sell for $150 right?According to some recent news here: ( http://www.megagames.com/news/html/pc/atiradeonhd3800specsleaked.shtml ) HD 3850 will sell for less than $150.AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART 1 € doesn't equal to 1$ .I suggest you reading some economics.As result 8800gt will be more expensive.(Here is an example HD3850 will cost about 220 Turkish Lira's and 8800gt will cost more than 300 Turkish Lira's in my country.THIS IS NOT HEAD TO HEAD PRICING).And 8800gt is not DX10.1 but HD 3850 is DX10.1
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