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.Sup
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Gainward says fuck nvidia:

Palit-owned Gainward has decided that monogamy isn't all that great and a little ménage à trois would be a lot nicer and more profitable. As a result, the company has now announced that it will be adding a couple of RV770 cards to its product line-up. Leaving Nvidia exclusivity to rot in the desert, Gainward revealed its own Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 cards, both of which you can see below.

All red and lovely, the cards are based on AMD/ATI's reference design and thus feature stock cooling system and clocks. The Radeon HD 4850 has 512MB of GDDR3 memory set to 1986 MHz, 800 Stream Processors and a GPU clocked at 625 MHz while the HD 4870 can say it's equipped with 3600 MHz-clocked 512MB of GDDR5 memory and a GPU with a frequency of 750 MHz.

Both new cards feature PC-Express 2.0, DirectX 10.1 support and the ability to make Nvidia fanboys cry (BEd: Not tears, I've got something in my eye).
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kylef
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Doesn't make much difference - Palit will still work with nVidia - this was a good move.
.Sup
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kylef wrote:

Doesn't make much difference - Palit will still work with nVidia - this was a good move.
Yep, they will definitively sell a lot of red flavored cards in the next couple months.
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Brasso
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Smart move on their part, even better for us consumers as well!
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