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ATI Radeon X1800 GTO Launched

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-6600-is-looking-kinda-flabby dept.

SippinTea writes "ATI has also hastened to market with a launch of their own this week, with a new Performance Mid-Range Graphics Card. The Radeon X1800 GTO is a chopped-down version of the Radeon X1800 XL with 12 pixel pipelines and less expensive, lower speed GDDR3 DRAM on board. It compares well with the new GeForce 7600GT but can it compete with a GeForce 7900GT for only a few dollars more?"

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  1. A quick run down of how this works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing top of the line graphics card.
    2. Sell it for $500
    3. Spend a few more million dollars figuring out how to cripple top of the line graphics card.
    4. Sell it for half the price.
    5. Profit?
    6. Consumers figure out how to re-enabled all the features that were crippled making there $250 graphics card perform almost equal to the $500 version.