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December Video Card Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff December 3, 2004The NVIDIA-based video card market is a bit more splintered than the ATI one, and we still have the GeForce FX and GeForce4 cards available at street level, and really competing at the entry-level and mainstream sectors. Naturally, the GeForce FX and GeForce Series 6 lines receive a greater number of listings, and especially as we move to the very popular GeForce FX 5700/5900/5950 Ultra and GeForce 6800 levels. NVIDIA gets the same overall coverage as the ATI list, starting at the GeForce4 MX440-8X and ending with the GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB cards. But just like ATI, there are some NVIDIA cards that are becoming increasingly hard to locate, and we've adjusted our list accordingly. The NVIDIA price chart matched the ATI trends for the most part and featured a combination of price cuts and spikes, along with the standard "no change" camp. In terms of price decreases, the high-end GeForce 6800 Ultras 256MB cards were the recipients of serious cuts, with two models dropping by over $100. Of course, this was primarily an equalizing period for these boards, as supplies increased and vendors were able to offer more competitive pricing across additional models. We have also added a few GeForce 6600 GT 128MB AGP boards to the price list, but it is surprising how much more expensive these are compared to their PCI Express counterparts. In fact, the PCIe GeForce 6600 GT cards offer exceptional price-performance for the class, and should be at the top of the mainstream list, but we'll have to wait and see where AGP prices head in the coming months. * Please note that many of the GeForce 6800-based video cards are still in short supply (especially the PCIe ones), with some models on back-order, or even on pre-order and waiting for the individual vendor release.
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