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February 2007 Video Card Price GuideBy SharkyExtreme.com Staff March 1, 2007Welcome 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 listed as PCIe, are assumed to be AGP models. The ATI market starts with the Radeon 9X00-based video cards, ranging from the entry-level Radeon X300 to the mainstream Radeon X1600/X1650 Pro/XT, and extending all the way to the top-of-the-line Radeon X1800 and X1900/X1950 cards. 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 X1950-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. The new year started off well for ATI video card buyers, with quite a few deals to open up 2007. Now that we've reached February, the price drops have cooled off along with the weather, and there are quite a few price increases to deal with. On the positive side, there are four double-digit price cuts, with the largest being a $30 drop to the price of a Radeon X1950 XT 256MB card. Unfortunately, there were also eleven price increases of $10 or more, including many X1600, X1800, X1900, and X1950-based cards. This resulted in an aggregate chart increase of $83, a trend we certainly don't see every month.
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