Price Guides, April 2005: Video Cards
by Kristopher Kubicki on April 23, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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GPU Mid-range
Moving into the mid-range sector puts the ball back in NVIDIA's court, particularly for a certain ever addicting online MMORPG. While you lose the next 8 weeks of your life killing dragons until you hit level 60, you might as well do it in style. Sapphire Radeon X700 Pro [RTPE: 100596] prices have fallen slightly since last month, but nothing to really get excited about. Below is a graph of X700 Pro prices over the last three months:
We were very excited this week to see the price difference between AGP and PCIe 6600GT video cards disappear. While we shun AGP video cards on the high end, mid-range AGP video cards are extremely reasonable right now. Below, you can see the behavior of the XFX GeForce 6600GT AGP [RTPE: PVT43AND] over the last few weeks.
Aside from the fact that GeForce 6600GTs are priced the same as X700 Pros, ATI has a lot of work to do to catch up in the $150 to $200 market. ATI regains a little bit of ground at the $100 mark, pairing the Radeon X600 Pro against the GeForce 6600 vanilla edition. For a $100 video card, Gigabyte has a very solid offering, although the other video cards for the same price point don't advertise nearly the same prices.
Before we completely jump off the mid-range and into low end cards, we wanted to point out a deal that we spotted on Radeon 9800 Pro AGP video cards. Check out the week's prices on the Sapphire 9800 Pro [RTPE: 100556] cards!
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cryptonomicon - Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - link
neat stuff.hard to decide between 6600GT and 9800pro as it just dropped in price. i'll have to do some benchmark comparisons against price ratios.
semo - Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - link
yep€428 = $553 according to this site: www.xe.com/ucc/
KristopherKubicki - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
patrick0: I am not 100% sure of the exchange rate, but I know the USD against the Euro is not favorable. €428 is definitely more than $459.Kristopher
EODetroit - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
Its a shame about Newegg, they used to allow negative reviews. I remember shopping for a DVD burner back when they were new and expensive, and people who write stuff like "This burner sucks, avoid it at all costs! Newegg rocks, they got it to me in 2 days, but don't buy this burner, it sucks!". Those reviews were really helpful. But now you don't see anything negative so you can't trust the reviews any more :(. I still shop at Newegg all the time but I don't recommend them to all my friends like I used to 'cause of this.junyor22 - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
On page 4 they mention a 256MB 6600GT offering from MSI...The link actualy goes to a 128MB version of this card and looking at MSI's website
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_list.asp?clas...
They don't offer this card. Only a 256MB AGP 6600 (non GT)
patrick0 - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
Forget about the $70-$120, that's what alcohol is doing :)Still the X850XT PE is about $40 cheaper.
patrick0 - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
I really don't understand why you always compare prices of these expensive stores.A Radeon X850XT for $460, I can buy one for €378 (GeCube) or €385 (PowerColor)
Radeon X850XT PE for $459, I can buy one for €428
Even if you have to pay international shipment, over $70-$120 diference will make up for that.
I suppose you can buy in the USA for these prices as well. For those who care, these are prices of a store in Barcelona (Spain)
Phiro - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
Hey, where's the regular 6600's? Don't they fill the gap between the $180 6600GT and the $100 6200?Souka - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
Pretty useless article.... my opinion... nuff said.intellon - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
I'm a student and I have a P4-2.8GHz 533FSB with 512mb RDRAM and an AGP 9700 pro AND it's a Dell!!!(please spare the bashing)now strictly economically, should I bother to replace 9700pro with a X800XL or a BFG-6800GT OC (Both can be had for $500 here in Canada) or should I dump the dell and build my own PCI-e rig?
Note: Money matters. So need the total cost to be minimum in the end.