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July Video Card Price Guide - Page 2By SharkyExtreme.com Staff July 28, 2006The NVIDIA-based video card market is a bit more splintered than the ATI one, and we still have the older GeForce cards available at street level, and competing at the entry-level and mainstream sectors. Naturally, the GeForce 6 and 7 Series lines receive a greater number of listings, and especially as we move to the popular GeForce 6600/6800 and GeForce 7600/7800/7900 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 7900 GTX 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 NVIDIA graphics card price list is a lot different from the ATI chart, and here we find stability as the main trend. There were four double-digit price cuts, including an $18 drop to the EVGA GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB, and the GeForce 7800 GT 256MB fell by $14. Unfortunately, this activity was overshadowed by the price increases, and these are both more numerous and more significant than the price drops. The XFX GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB (+$37) and MSI GeForce 7900 GT 256MB (+$25) alone, outdistanced the entire set of double-digit cuts, and this contributed to an aggregate chart increase of $62. This is a far cry from the $500+ total chart drop in May and even the $200+ total NVIDIA decrease we charted in June.
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