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October Video Card Price GuideBy SharkyExtreme.com Staff October 6, 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 or PriceGrabber, but instead looks to present a monthly 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. Overall, it's not been a bad month for ATI buyers, and many of the higher-end models are showing significant cuts. Multimedia PCI Express fans will cheer at the $57 cut to the ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon X800 XL 256MB, while the Radeon X850 XT Platinum 256MB (AGP) and ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB (PCI Express) fell by $30 and $29, respectively. There were also a few more double-digit price drops hitting Radeon X850 and X800 models, but there were also some higher prices to report as well, with five of the jumps ranging from $10 to $31. This resulted in a muted overall ATI chart drop of only $80, well back of the $300-$400 aggregate decreases of August and September 2005. * Please note that the Radeon X1800 XL 256MB PCI Express listing is for pre-order only.
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