Sapphire Technology first to market again...
HEXUS.beans
:: ATi RADEON X1600
PRO and XT come into focus earlier than expected.
However, HEXUS has just learnt that that ATi's largest Add-In-Board (AIB) partner, Sapphire Technology, has finally started to ship its range of products based on the ATi RADEON X1600 GPU (RV530).
Even
though, relative to some of ATi’s own RADEON X800 based
products, the performance gain of RADEON X1600 is questionable, it seems that
because there are apparently huge shortages of all
ATi product in the channel, means that the RADEON X1600 is still likely
to sell well.
RADEON
X1600 parts from Sapphire
Technology should come in at around e189 for a full retail edition, but
for some, the
juicer part of this HEXUS.bean is that Sapphire have managed to
produce more of its highly overclockable RADEON
X800 GTO
and RADEON
X800 GTO2, which with the natural
price drops should means that there will be some
performance bargains to be had.
