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January Video Card Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff January 18, 2006The NVIDIA-based video card market is a bit more splintered than the ATI one, and we still have the GeForce FX and GeForce PCX 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 ATI chart has been rocking over the last few months, and for the most part, the NVIDIA side has been keeping pace... at least until 2006 rolled around. This past month has been a tough one for NVIDIA buyers, and the overall chart only dropped by a measly $72. There were a few price cuts to report, as the NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT 256MB AGP (-$40), NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256MB PCI Express (-$25), and Leadtek GeForce 6800 256MB PCI Express (-$25) cards all offer a better deal than last month. As in the ATI chart, there were some higher prices on the NVIDIA list, including four double-digit increases, although the largest of which was only a $27 jump to the cost of the NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT 256MB PCI Express. This month seems to signify a changing of the guard for NVIDIA, as the top 10 price drops were for GeForce 6 Series models, and you need to go down twelve spaces to hit a GeForce 7800-based model.
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