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HD 4770 is very hard to come by in Europe |
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Written by Peter Scott
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 14:16 |
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Limited availability, and it's getting worse
The HD 4770 was launched back in April, and just nine
vendors have launched RV740 boards. As ATI didn't want to see any
non-reference design malarkey, partners launched reference cards, one
each for a total of nine.
As if this wasn't bad enough, it seems things are getting much worse if
you wanted one. At the moment, MSI, Gigabyte and XFX cards are no
longer available in Europe. The other five are available, theoretically
at least. Looking at our price search engine we could find just a
handful of shops that had them in stock.
Here are the numbers, you can get a Sapphire in just four shops,
Powercolor's card is available at just three shops, while Asus and Club
3D cards are available at two stores each. You can get an HIS at just
one shop. This makes for a total of 12 retailers in the markets covered
by our price search engine, including Germany, Austria, UK and Poland.
Basically, this means you can either order an HD 4770 now, or wait for
new batches which don't appear to be coming soon, and it is practically
no longer available in Europe. There's not much point in getting an HD
4770 anyway, as the HD 4850 has dropped to €80, and is now a few euros cheaper than the
HD 4770.
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