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September Video Card Price Guide - Page 5By SharkyExtreme.com Staff September 27, 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/X850 and GeForce 7600/7900-based cards, before finishing with the top-end Radeon X1900/X1950 XTX 512MB and GeForce GTX 512MB and GeForce 7950 GX2 1GB cards, some of which can have price tags of $500 or more. 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 continually joining the party. This month we welcome the Radeon X1900 XT 256MB and GeForce 7950 GT 512MB cards to the high-end fold, and both of these models represent high performance boards priced at very attractive levels. The overall high-end price drops were nowhere near as wild as last month, and it was definitely a period of new card introductions, perhaps to be followed up next month with some additional pricing activity.
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