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October Video Card Price Guide - Page 5By SharkyExtreme.com Staff October 31, 2008If 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 X1900/X1950 and GeForce 7900/7950-based cards, before finishing with the top-end Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB/1GB, Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB, and GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB and GTX/Ultra 768MB cards, some of which can have price tags of $400-$600 or more. The high-end video card chart is usually the most active of the bunch, where pricing shoot-outs are always taking place between ATI and NVIDIA video cards, and new hotrod cards are continually joining the party. We continue to see more high-end graphics cards slipping below the $200 barrier, and we lost another this month. Thankfully, we added a new one as well, in the form of the powerful GeForce GTX 260-216 896MB. There were some price drops, as well as some increases, and it's safe to say that the fire sale on GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB cards we saw in September is no longer in effect. The GeForce GTX 280 1GB is a very fast single-GPU selection, challenged by the lower cost Radeon HD 4870 512MB, but the Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB is remains the top performance card.
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