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September Video Card Price GuideBy SharkyExtreme.com Staff September 29, 2004Welcome to the Sharky Extreme Video Card Price Guide, which follows our current CPU and Memory guides by presenting a snap-shot of the overall market. This follows the same basic pattern as our CPU price guide, starting off with individual lists for both NVIDIA and ATI, then separating them into the various entry-level, mainstream and high-end market segments, and finishing up with a sorted price list combining all the cards. The video card price lists are not meant to duplicate the vendor selection of an online price engine like PriceWatch, but instead looks to present a view of the overall video card marketplace. The video cards and manufacturers in the price lists are selected due to video chip and brand popularity, market visibility, and overall positioning. In some cases, we only show the OEM price for less popular models, while including multiple retail cards at the hotter ends of the market. * Please note that unless otherwise stated (using an OEM designation) the listed video cards are full retail boxed editions. The ATI market starts with the Radeon 9X00-based video cards, ranging from the entry-level Radeon 9000 to the powerful Radeon 9800XT, and extending all the way to the top-of-the-line Radeon x800 XT Platinum. The following list is sorted by product line to give a full view of the various ATI-based options, and exactly which models include special All-in-Wonder editions and larger memory capacities. The Radeon 9X00 and X300 to X800-based cards featured in the list are the ones that are readily available online, and we've left out some last-generation cards that are extremely difficult to find. September has been a fairly good month for ATI video card prices, especially at the high-end. Another noticeable trend is the drastic price cuts to ATI PCI Express cards, such as the $28 drop on the ATI X600 XT 128MB and the $17 cut to the ATI X600 Pro 128MB. The high-end is also hopping, with many Radeon X800 Pro and X800 XT cards receiving noticeable cuts, and even some Radeon 9800 XT boards dropping in price to maintain the gap. Unfortunately, the last-gen mainstream cards like the Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB/256MB, are increasing in price, which offsets some of the other mainstream price cuts.
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