[nightdagger]

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

they stopped making x800xts a long time ago im guessing u got it new and probably got the first batch that was used as reference board and probably has been stored since it was released and now thye probably reached out of stock point with the x800xts at their main warehouses. what i wud give to get in those warehouses. hundreds of thousands of video cards that are supposed to be released next year. god imagine getting intel 6 core cpus that run at 10ghz 3 yrs before they come out. imagine ddr4 motherboard ram, video cards and motherboards that use light to tranfer data instead of electricity. :hmm::hmm:

Except I'm guessing that if they haven't even announced they're working on even a feasible prototype for most of those technologies they probably don't have warehouses full of them.

And core-wise, the next logical step after 4-core is 8-core, building in powers of 2 like most computer things.