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March 2007 Video Card Price GuideBy SharkyExtreme.com Staff March 29, 2007Welcome to the Sharky Extreme Video Card Price Guide, which compliments our 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 AMD, 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 AMD-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 AMD-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. As AMD has effectively halted production on their popular All-in-Wonder brand, we have started listing prices for the TV Wonder 550 and 650 HD cards. While January offered a bumper crop of price decreases to AMD buyers, February slowed this trend down to a crawl and even reversed many of the deals. March brings us back on track, and the chart includes nine price drops that reached double digits, compared to only one similar price increase, and that one was for only +$15. The more significant price cuts included the Radeon X1900 GT 256MB (-$40), Radeon X1950 Crossfire 256MB (-$25), Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB (-$19), and Radeon 9600XT 256MB (-$18) video cards, and the overall AMD chart registered an aggregate drop of $166 for the month.
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