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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Those wonderful GeForceFX 5800’s are all but impossible to find. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, ATI took the price for this week’s price/performance winner. The Radeon 9600 Pro seems to outpace the GeForceFX 5600 Ultra, while costing 10 to 15 dollars less.
The high end GeForce FX5900's display enough performance to give ATI a run for its money, but at an inhibitive cost. We could not find any 5900 Ultra cards under $400, which seems like a ridiculous amount to spend on a video card. If perhaps ATI is not your cup of tea, the prices on the GeForceFX 5600 Ultra are dropping, so when they get down to the $160 range they will become a most cost effective solution.
In other video news, Matrox quietly unveiled its 256MB revision on the Parhelia. However, like NVIDIA and ATI’s high end solutions, the cost of this video card is slightly out of reach of anyone with reasonable video card expectations.
Don’t forget, you can view all of our real-time pricings whenever you wish. Simply click “RealTime Pricing” on the AnandTech left navigation bar, or click here.
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Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
Monarch all prices at $30. I don't think it's a bug, since it affects no other merchant. If you follow the link the real price is revealed at the true rate (which isn't $30, trust me).I say it is no coincidence, and would rather see true pricing from honest merchants.
Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
Many of the prices from Monarch Computers Systems have the price listed as $30 which is wrong. This includes several Intel and AMD processors. Maybe a bug?KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
Hi #4, thanks for the input. I will add a bunch more NVIDIA cards today.Kristopher
Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
Hey in the nVidia based video card pricelist you forgot to mention the eVGA 5900 card its alot cheaper than the Albatron's 5900! The Albatron is 343$ at GameVE, but the eVGA 5900 its 249$!!KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
I am going to delist Compubuzz.comAnonymous User - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - link
How do you select vendors "with generally positive feedback from a decent number of consumers"? It seems that compubuzz.com has a lot of unfavorable feedback at resellerratings.com, yet they managed to grab half of the AMD CPU listings in this guide...Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - link
Is there a good way to find low profile memory?