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Well one of the pics i seen form e3 showed a windowed pc case with a very long looking ati card in with a dual slot cooler, looked like an x850 cooler but the card seemed to be longer than ab x850. Some news sites were saying it was an early r520 card.

The r520 could be a recipe for disaster but given the specs its gonna smack around anything out there at the minute, first 90 nanometre card, only card on the market with 32 pipes, only 600mhz core on the market. Even if it came out at 24 pipes it would still outperform a gtx because of its faster core speed.

We'll know soon enough anyway, if they can duplicate the 7800gtx release it should be interesting to see what nvidia can come up with to compete with it, because its gonna take an sli setup to compete with a single r520, and much more than that to compete with crossfired r520's.