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February Video Card Price Guide - Page 5By SharkyExtreme.com Staff February 23, 2006If the entry-level and mainstream video cards cover us to the $200 price mark, then the high-end market takes us home. Here there is really no price limit, and as long as it's a desktop 3D gaming card, then we'll do our best to fit it in. This segment really starts off with the Radeon X800 and GeForce 6800 cards, before finishing with the top-end Radeon X1800 256MB and GeForce 7800 GT and GTX 256MB cards, some of which can push $600. The high-end section of the video card market is usually more of a "wild west" type of environment, where the pricing shoot-outs are always taking place between ATI and NVIDIA video cards. This is true again this month, and a significant percentage of the price cuts hit in this area. There is also a good selection of new high-end card listings, as six new models debuted in the chart, with the big news being the introduction of the ultra high-end ATI Radeon X1900 XT and XTX 512MB cards, as well as the GeForce 7800 GS 256MB AGP boards. In terms of overall performance, the Radeon X1900 XTX is the frontrunner, but we still think the best price-performance value exists a bit lower, with the less-expensive GeForce 7800 GT and GTX 256-MB cards, both of which continue to receive healthy price cuts.
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