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February Video Card Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff February 23, 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 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 first month of 2006 was not kind to NVIDIA buyers, as overall prices stagnated, but February changes all that in a big hurry. This month, the aggregate chart drop checked in at a whopping $385, and there were thirteen price cuts that reached double digits, including the NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT 256MB PCI Express (-$52), MSI GeForce 7800 GT 256MB (-$42), ASUS DUAL GeForce 7800 GT 512MB (-$34), and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB (-$30) video cards. This was slightly better than on the ATI chart, but the big change occurred on the price increase side, where only a single NVIDIA-based listing showed a double-digit price jump. We also added a few new listings to the chart, including a few GeForce 7800 GS AGP cards, and switching our brand selection a bit at the GeForce 6 and 7 Series level.
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