Price Guides, April 2005: Video Cards
by Kristopher Kubicki on April 23, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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What a week it has been for the price guides! Did you get a chance to see the redesigned beta webpage? NewEgg wasn’t the only one to scrap their original beta web design at the last second, apparently! Our working beta was nearing completion until we learned that the price engine code was just a few pixels shy of fitting in the AnandTech standard borders. We played around with some ideas and twisted some graphics around and finally settled on a layout similar to the one that you can see here. After we wade through some of the more cosmetic changes and updates, our guide engine will be finally ready to sit on the main site (we promise this time!).
Speaking of redesigns, NewEgg’s redesign launched just a few days ago. The new design is a little easier on wide screen displays and focuses more on user reviews. In any case, we like the new design, although it is definitely a large change from the old design and an adjustment if you were accustomed to it.
In video card news, X800 XL and X800 video cards are now in the mainstream AGP market and like so many things AGP, our disappointment can hardly be contained. After months of waiting, it looks like our friends at Sapphire were the only ones capable of bringing the AGP X800 XL cards into any sort of competitive pricing with their PCIe counterparts, but with inexpensive nForce4 motherboards and current Intel PCIe motherboards hitting their second iteration, it feels really difficult to give AGP much worth while praise.
We have received word from several motherboard manufacturers that GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache cards are going to start shipping with low end PCIe motherboards. Supposedly, this should help keep production costs down on low end boards as IGP motherboards will not need separate designs for end users. On the other hand, the end user might pay more for the additional packaging/production of the GPU on an external card. We will be following this very closely over the next few quarters.
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MJA - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
newegg.com new site looks cool on my dell widescreen 2005WPFKristopherKubicki - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
Zar0n: You can actually do that: Type in the product here:http://labs.anandtech.com/
Rike: You are correct, I am not sure how that typo made it through the editorial process.
Kristopher
Rike - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
#8 I think it should read: "We were very excited this week to see [the price difference between] AGP and PCIe 6600GT video cards disappear."PrinceGaz - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
On page 4 "We were very excited this week to see AGP and PCIe 6600GT video cards disappear."Was that meant to say something else?
Spacecomber - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
Following up on #4, they really should call them what they are, "testimonials"; they aren't reviews. If you read NewEggs fine print, they as much as say this, but I do feel that NewEgg's continuing to refer to these as "reviews" is misleading.(They also are willing to do a major editing job on a "review", to the point that it almost isn't recognizable, even if you originally wrote it.)
As to the PriceGuide, it seems like the 6800 NU fell through the cracks?
Space
Son of a N00b - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
I read the reviews for little tidbits of info like not including cables or something, but i would never buy anything without reading a review here or somehwere else....btw HATE neweggs new design i go so used to their old one after the past 4 months selecting parts for my next computer and keeping em in my cart or wish list and got very very used to where everything was i could go with my eyes closed...then they changed and my cart and wishlist got deleted and i do not like the flashy colors and things...lol oh well i guess i gotta get used to it and ask newegg for my cart back for my account..if they can......
xsilver - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
#2 --- people come to AT price guides to drool :P#4 its called "marketing" .... what a review telling you the product is crap and not to buy it, why would they print that???
toyota - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
i like newegg but i dont trust a lot of their reviews. i have tried leaving reviews that were not positive but they would never post them. i even tried to post a consructive review on an Asus video card stating that it was not really a 6600gt and they wouldnt post it. i emailed them asking why they would not post some of my reviews and they replied with "we have to approve the reviews". that does not make a whole lot of sense to me considering some of the reviews i have read there. they will always post a review with a 5 egg rating no matter how stupid it is. some product reviews are from people who never even bought the product.Zar0n - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
It would be really nice if we could see those neet price graphics for any hardware part.What about a “Price graphic“ link next to “check prices” :D
Zebo - Saturday, April 23, 2005 - link
LOL gotta a kick out of this:"For whatever reason, we always seem to catch some flak from our readers if we don't mention the ultra unaffordable high end stuff. We would never buy this stuff in a million years, and it would be very silly for us to recommend any of it (these are price guides, aren't they?)"