Price Guides August 2003: CPUs, Motherboards, Memory and Video Cards
by Kristopher Kubicki on August 26, 2003 12:56 AM EST- Posted in
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Video ATI
Everyone seems to be jumping on the ATI bandwagon. The Radeon line basically doubled over the last couple months, but their aggressive and dominating market position assures that prices wont be taking a dive anytime soon. The Radeon 9800 256MB line started to show itself a few weeks ago as well, but realistically we don’t expect this card to start flying off the shelves at $400.
However, even though the 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro is hard to find, ATI still has exceptional offerings. The Sapphire 9500 Pro and the Sapphire 9700 Pro still offer excellent performance for under $200 and under $300, respectively. If finding 9500 Pro cards prove difficult, you might consider the Radeon 9600 Pro which offers slightly less performance at a slightly lower cost than the 9500 Pro.
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StayPuff - Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - link
It seems that every item listed for GameVE is out of stock -- at least the ones I checked....Bummer.
KristopherKubicki - Friday, September 5, 2003 - link
Hi,Still working some bugs out. Thanks for the update, I promise I will have this working very soon.
Kristopher
Anonymous User - Friday, September 5, 2003 - link
argh definitely you got a problem... all memory prices are 0.0 just OCZ is 2.95 which is also wrong obviously...your bots messed up?
Prices last updated Sep 5, 2003 at 12:45 PM
and were not updated right certainly.
Anonymous User - Friday, September 5, 2003 - link
something's gone wrong... i dont see any ati cards listed right now, and your real time price engine doesnt have videocards in it too...Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link
Kris you are still forgetting the eVGA 5900 thats 249$ at GameVeKristopherKubicki - Saturday, August 30, 2003 - link
#11 - Yeah, go for the Pro versions. Definately good cards. Their drivers are fine.Kristopher
Anonymous User - Friday, August 29, 2003 - link
I have heard that ATI should be avoided due to bad drivers and such, thus causing problems with gaming. However, ATI seems so attrative right now. Should I go for the 9500/9600??KristopherKubicki - Thursday, August 28, 2003 - link
I just wanted to mention real quick, if the merchants seem drastically wrong, its a problem on our end not the merchants. All of the merchants are browsed by AnandTech bots, rather than grabbed from some PriceWatch database (or something of the like). Sometimes, if a every price on a merchant is off, their webpage probably changed.The problem we had was that the MonarchComputer webpage changed, and since one of our interns was logged into the system it never warned us. The resulting error was every Monarch link was posted at 30 bucks. For those of you who track the system closely, this happened to another merchant about 2 weeks ago before we put the warnings in.
In anycase, we have multiple levels of monitoring now, we should be in much better shape for these occurances.
Thanks for your patience!
Kristopher
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, August 28, 2003 - link
#7 / #8, this is a temporary bug on our end. Something really silly (like an editor forgetting to log out of the price guide backend). We have put stops in to prevent this from happening again.Thanks for the input!
Kristopher
Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
Agree with previous comment about Monarch. Credibility of the price guide suffers when hijacked by unscrupulous vendors. Anandtech ought to "filter" out such listings.