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March 2005 Video Card Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff March 4, 2005The 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 6600 and 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 continue to adjust our list accordingly. For the third month in a row, the NVIDIA listings surpassed those of ATI in terms of both overall price drops and individual cuts, chocking up almost 4X the overall dollar movement. The big guns this month were the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI Express cards, and the two we have listed fell by $139 and $140 respectively. These are pretty serious price decreases, and it is nice to see the PCIe versions of the top-end NVIDIA boards falling into line with their AGP counterparts. The PCI Express movement continued down the GeForce 6800-based line, and there were $50+ cuts to some of the 6800GT models, and $30-$40+ cuts to the GeForce 6800-based PCIe cards. Their AGP counterparts also dropped in price, but not by the same amount, with most falling in the $10-$30 range. Even the last-generation PCI Express cards showed some price decreases, with the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5750 128MB falling by $17 and the ASUS GeForce PCX 5900 128MB dropping $10. This is definitely a PCI Express month for NVIDIA cards, and new system buyers will definitely want to take advantage of the savings.
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