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November Video Card Price Guide - Page 5By SharkyExtreme.com Staff November 30, 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 lost another high-end card this month, as the Radeon HD 4850 1GB fell below the $200 mark, but we also added the Radeon HD 4870 1GB and Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB cards to the high-end club. This really didn't change the overall chart rankings, and while the Radeon HD 4870 512MB and GeForce GTX 280 1GB make up the single-GPU challengers, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB remains the top performance choice.
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