[EDIT]hmmm.....whats going on at AMD? (and history of 3Dfx Rampage)

[SteelCrysis]

http://techreport.com/news/31413/rumor-r...out-at-490

Bottom Line Telecommunications shows even lower pricing. As you can see in the image above, the site lists the same three models, and again shows that the R7 1700 has a 65W TDP. However, the prices listed are almost comically low: $490 for the top-end R7 1800X, $382 for the R7 1700X, and then $317 for the R7 1700. All three processors are marked as "unavailable, do not order" when you click through to their product pages. While these figures are hard to believe, the site has been correct before when it came to pre-release pricing and specs for new CPUs.

The disparity in the two sources appears to simply be a matter of U.S. versus Euro pricing. El Chapuzas Informatico's figures include taxes, and after correcting for that, the prices are strikingly similar. That site also insists that the new CPUs will be in stores February 28, which is even sooner than the March 3 date that the rumor mill brought up previously. It's tempting to speculate on the meaning of these seemingly bargain-basement prices on what are purportedly quite-potent processors. If any of this information is true, there's a possibility that the launch could be just a couple of weeks away. We'll have to wait and see what happens.