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January 2007 Video Card Price Guide - Page 5By SharkyExtreme.com Staff January 30, 2007If 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. In terms of new entrants, the big news is the emergence of the Radeon X1950 Uber Edition package, which includes dual Crossfire cards all decked out in a nifty ATI briefcase - and a price tag to match. The GeForce 7950 GT 512MB and Radeon X1900 XT 512MB cards continue to offer a lot of bang for the gaming buck, but as the GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB cards have dropped down to the $400 mark, this is the obvious choice for the enthusiast market.
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