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September Video Card Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff September 9, 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 6 & 7 Series lines receive a greater number of listings, and especially as we move to the popular GeForce 6600/6800 and GeForce 7800 GT/GTX levels. NVIDIA gets the same overall coverage as the ATI list, starting at the GeForce4 MX4000-8X and ending with the GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB and GeForce 6800 Ultra 512-MB 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. The price of ATI video cards may be dropping, but the NVIDIA list shows a bit more action, and the total chart decrease of $469 easily passed the ATI one. At fourteen double-digit NVIDIA price cuts, this was one less than ATI, but NVIDIA cards were no shrinking violets when it came to individual cuts, with four checking in at over $50. These included the GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCIe (-$66), Gigabyte GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB (-$56), XFX GeForce 6800 128MB (-$53), and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 128MB (-$51) cards. The new GeForce 7 Series cards are really putting the pressure on the GeForce 6800-based models, and those looking for a GeForce 6800, 6800GT or 6800 Ultra might want to keep an eye out. In terms of price increases, we charted a total of three on the NVIDIA side, with the largest (+$21) hitting the aging NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900 128MB PCIe.
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