CF 5870s on Dell US Website!!!

I'm defiantly going to do that once i get my first refund of 12% off. Once to put the money back in my account i will be calling to get further discounts or i really want a carrying bag and maybe upgrade some more of my gear><!

 

Possibly due to limited quantity. If you're a potential new customer, seeing a big delay when selecting options may turn you to a competitor instead of waiting.

Whereas, if you're an existing m17x owner - you're practically a captive audience and you more than likely will wait for it.

 

Considering that now when you order CF 5870, your order gets delayed for 2 weeks, I would say its not random, but a supply issue, no doubt due to the enthusiastic members of NBR...

 

i am happy to see i am not the only keeping my machine with dual 4870s (its a free replacement anyway) and trying to find the Crossfire 5870 kit.

what are you saying guys is that the kit for cf 5870 is not available YET? or it wont be available at all? i mean the older CF 4870 kit can be ordered now?

thus anyone tried if single 5870 can be ordered as part now?

 

It isnt ready to order "yet" I assume it will become ready soon, I might go talk to a US Dell Rep and see what they say with a timeframe for being able to order them.

 

ok keep us all informed please. i cant sleep because of this. lool

also please ask them if single 5870 can be ordered instead of CF 5870. then people with dual 4870s could buy two of those and use the equipment from dual 4870s (second heatsink and cf cable) to set them in Crossfire.

 

I thought the cards were different? Could be wrong. But, I thought that with the 4870's at least, they were physicaly different or something.

 

0 for 2?

Yeah, I have decided to cool-my-jets, and hold off a bit myself. As of late, I have been focusing on updating my desktop systems and home network, so I am not quite up-to-speed here. I assume you are referring to the stuttering, throttling, and sync issues? Do we have our eye on the X7200?

 

My PC has been in production since yesterday yet the estimated delivery date is 6/21/2010.

That seems way out there...

 

I have the same date Joe. Strange cuz my rep said i would be getting 2-5 BD shipping by dells website has me as 7 day. A lot of fishy things happing right now, but with all that is going on I for see more opportunity to get further discounts.

 

crossfire cable is of course the same. heatsink also. its the same and it fits all mobile pci gpus actually.


any info about the cf 5870 kit price?

 

A single card is around 400. I say around because a few sales representatives have said since a single 4870 is 410, a 5870 will be roughly the same.

Ive gotten two systems now a week ahead of schedule. I think the given delivery date is just Rulee of thumb to go off of

 

well I just check, mine is in production, still EDD of June 4...

 

Yeah, my current system arrive a few days before its EDD

 

Anyone remember what I need to tell my rep about the second hard drive caddy? He says he does not know anything about ordering a caddy for the second hard drive to be put into the PC.

 

ok because i spoke to a seller who said a single 5870 could cost to 600-700 dollars. or he steals badly or he doesnt know that price maybe for the whole kit.

 

If you order an R2, the second hard drive caddy is included

 

Oh ok, I did not know that. Thanks...

 

Not sure how new this is, didn't see any other posts on the crossfire 5870's yet?
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Did you bother to click on page 2?
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/484476-cf-5870s-dell-us-website.html

 

Good grief.

 

Well I kinda figured someone would be on top of this since a lot of people have been waiting and waiting... I might have to make the jump myself. Apologies for my lack of observation.

 

Trying not to buy.....ugh

 

Oh but you will.

 

take the hit man, you'll be so much cooler
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What's stopping you from ordering? Not wanting to be an initial release labrat or something?

 

CrossfireX due in Aus at the end of the month apparently

see Dell Australia rep reply :

No problems then.
I just got the feedback.
It will actually will be in this month end.

I will keep in touch with you about the status of the Specs.
Once the Specs come in. I will inform you and then you can place the order with me.


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I've already returned two R2s after being disappointed with them but yes I gave in to the peer pressure.

 

For those who have a single 5870 I called alienware and they told me in a month they will start selling the card as an upgrade... Cant wait to upgrade my single 5870 to dual 5870s!!!

 

I'm having my 4870's downgraded to a single 5870 so getting dual 5870s will be cheaper.

 

Did they tell you a price? I really just want to keep my system and not wait another month.

 

I was going to buy another R2 today, but I decided to wait until E3 ends before I buy. You should just try to hold out until then as well. See what Alienware may have up their sleeves first.

 

Why e3? why not till q1 2011 for an entire refresh?

 

Too far away for me. I'll just sell mine then and buy the refresh.

 

what happened with those R2s?

 

End of this month? then i guess one week to go at most. Hurry up DELL AU

 

Did they ever fix the throtteling issues with the R2 and the 920 CPU ?

 

yes Hurry up dell , although the price will be more closer to 3000 I think as duel 4870's are going for 2800

Have to trade in my Dell 1530 , still a good notebook but the 8600M GT is way outdated now . all the new games are too slow on it now.

My brother can have it , he will put windows 7 on it as I cant be bothered. He doesnt play many games so with the new operating system the lappa should last him a while longer than with plonky vista.

 

maybe these people should look past the first page

 

A$3000 is fine. i almost spend A$3100 on a R2 w 4870CF. lucky i canceled it.

 

I'd heard they weren't going to be available until May 5th.

 

With everything stock mine was 2836 or something laround that for duel 4870's.

Did you upgrade the RAM and HDD ??

 

May 5 has been and gone , do you mean June 5 ?

 

How'd you miss that 17 threads on 5870's? Thats all I see lol

 

I swear Joker said May 5th...

 

NO, actually it was 3084 plus free keyboard and it was on 22/4. at that time the base price was 2699 and upgrade from single 4870 to dual was 384.

 

Oh were you trying to be clever?

 

anyone knows if you order your machine without bluetooth if it will have the cable to add bluetooth later? they probably forgot to add bluetooth on my replacement order

 

I'm pretty sure bluetooth is standard with every M17x

 

well why i cant see that on my packing slip then?

thus on dell uk adding bluetooth costs 30 pounds



So i probably deal with the most stupid people in the world. anyone knows if it will have the bluetooth cable anyway?

 

I'm guessing they will introduce a new system in the fall along with nvidia cards for the M17x but that seems so far away right now.

First one had the flickering issue and the second one ended up with a bad system board. They both had issues with posting whenever there was ANY bios change.

There is no common throttling issue I'm aware of. They don't set the multipliers right for the 920 but that's about it.