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MSI Radeon HD 5850 might ship this week

by on28 September 2009

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€239.00 at Alteco


German etailer that goes by the name Alteco claims that it can start shipping MSI Radeon HD 5850 this week. It is the MSI R5850-PM2D1G, 1024MB, PCI-Express with 725MHz core clock, 1000x4 MHz GDDR5 memory clock with1440 shader units.

The card also has a display port, HDMI and two DVI outs. You can look at the 5850 as a slightly slower and crippled version of 5870, but looks-wise it's pretty much identical.


You can pre-order one here but we have to warn you that it very well might happen that they don't ship the card on September 30th. The main reason for such a claim is that not even press has the green light to publish the reviews of HD 5850 cards, and most partners don’t have any samples or quantities of the HD 5850 to sell.

We believe that this is the best buy card, and with the price close to €199 it might be the real deal. If not, give it some time and the price will surely drop to these figures.

Last modified on 28 September 2009
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