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June 2007 Video Card Price GuideBy SharkyExtreme.com Staff June 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 X1950 and HD 2900 XT 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 ATI 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. We're back to the usual bi-monthly schedule for ATI price drops, and after the huge $460 aggregate chart decrease in May, we drop down to only $115 for this month. There were some significant price cuts in June, including the Radeon X1900 GT 256MB (-$64), Radeon X800 Pro 256MB (-$39) and Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB (-$34) cards. Unfortunately, there was also activity on the other side, such as a whopping $85 price spike to the Radeon X1950 Crossfire 512MB. It was actually a very active month for ATI video cards, but no real pricing trends emerged either way.
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