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July Video Card Price GuideBy SharkyExtreme.com Staff July 7, 2005Welcome 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, and unless expressly stated either way, are assumed to be AGP models. The ATI market starts with the Radeon 9X00-based video cards, ranging from the entry-level Radeon 9000 to the mainstream Radeon X700 Pro, and extending all the way to the top-of-the-line Radeon X850 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 X850-based cards featured in the list are the models that are readily available online, and we continue to drop last-generation cards that are extremely difficult to find. There was some noticeable price movement in the ATI chart for July, and in addition to over $450 in aggregate price drops, there are also some very serious individual cuts to report. The ultra high-end of the ATI video card scale seems to have reacted to the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 invasion with a host of price drops to the powerhouse models. These included a whopping $161 cut ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum 256MB PCIe, along with the Radeon X800 XL 512MB PCIe and Radeon X850 Pro 256MB PCIe falling by $84 and $47 respectively. Even the last-gen cards were dropping, and the ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB chopped $85 off its selling price. There were a few price increases as well, but the cuts far outweighed the spikes.
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