And you seem to love losing money

Naa. I don't lose money.

Released!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/23/ati- ... oving-nod/

And up for grabs on OCUK for about £300. In stock.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... ubcat=1502 (Sapphire 1GB model)

Update: seems to be available at most other etailers as well.

£300 is a bit step at the moment, when the performance is not too amazing. I mean my 4890 runs every game at max settings. Got it for £140, anyone who buys the 5870 is a fool. Same can be said with any card over £180.

Looks like you get what you pay for.

i have a 4870 and suddenly one game is sayign ti had less than 128MB Graphics ram ad asking to go on Low settings and then lagging, another has just started having noticable frame drops were before there were none.

You have burned out your graphics card

As for the 4890 doing everything... I found that my 4870X2 (especially 2x 4870X2) struggled when placed under certain conditions... namely gaming at very high quality settings at 2560x1600.

Performance looks good, similar to the dual cards of the last gen.

burned it out? i didn;t even overclock it o.o and it still runs plenty of things on high its just memory

If it overheats for other reasons (poor circulation) it could quite easily have burned out.