I don't know if you've looked at the benchmarks or not, but that is a false statement. The X1800XT preforms on par with the 256MB 7800GTX and even slightly out preforms it by a few frames in some games. Now of course the 512mb 7800GTX is going to rape the X1800XT, it was a dirty move on nvidias part, but hey, it worked. But lets not forget that the card will have an MSRP of $800, and the X1800XT had an MSRP of $549, and yet it is still $600 on newegg and monarch, so we can expect it to be slightly more than $800, especially for the ones that come pre overclocked. I also don't think that saphire is just going to cancel the OC'd R520 all together just because they can't use liquid metal cooling, I think we can expect to see them release an X1800XT with a massive two slot cooler like the 512mb 7800gtx, and while I doubt they will hit 800mhz on air, I can pretty much guarantee it will be faster than 625mhz -- although I don't think it will be enough to top the 512mb 7800gtx. Also, lets not forget that the 800mhz clock speed and liquid metal cooling were not the only things the saphire card had going -- it also had 2000MHz GDDR4 memory, which they can still use with or without liquid metal. The 512MB 7800GTX on the other hand will not be able to use GDDR4 memory because the memory controller does not support it, but the R520 does. I wouldn't give up all hope for ATI just yet.P.P. Mguire said:
