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April Video Card Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff April 1, 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. After holding the title for three months in a row, NVIDIA cards showed less overall movement than ATI and fell just short in terms of overall dollar change. Then again, the NVIDIA list does have the largest individual cut, but the $262 drop that hit the PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme 256MB was more of anomaly than anything else. the card debuted at such a ludicrous price, that it just had to drop like a stone. The GeForce 6800, 6800 GT, and 6800 Ultra boards accounted for the majority of double-digit price cuts, but there were a few GeForce 6600/6600 GT boards in there are well. The PCI Express models also held a decided edge, as the NVIDIA 6800-based PCIe cards started out at a premium price compared to the AGP counterpart. Otherwise, it was a pretty stable week for NVIDIA graphics cards, and only the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 128MB showed any real price increase.
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