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April Video Card Price Guide - Page 5By SharkyExtreme.com Staff April 21, 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, and new hotrod cards are always joining the party. This is true again this month, and we see a wide range of significant price drops, mixed in with a couple of new high-end video cards. GeForce 7600 and 7900-based video cards continue to make an impact, with the former replacing most of the GeForce 6800-based cards and the latter creating downward pressure on both NVIDIA and ATI cards alike. For our money, the GeForce 7900 GT is the best overall value for PCI Express, while the GeForce 7800 GS 256MB is a top AGP bet.
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