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arcturus

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7900GS models haven't changed in at least at month, in fact
they've gone up a bit.

Sub $140 before rebate looks like a ways off.
 
Give it a couple weeks. Remember the sales were mainly for Xmas etc. They'll drop again before march.
 
Videocards are static right now because there is no new technology to drop prices. 8800gts/gtx's will hover around the same price until ATI releases a real release date. The lower cards will follow suit.
 
You guys think Vista's general release next week will keep prices firm on vid cards
with the demands the OS requires for eye candy?
 
arcturus said:
You guys think Vista's general release next week will keep prices firm on vid cards
with the demands the OS requires for eye candy?
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I doubt it Vista really dont require much to run aero you can get a card as cheap as $50 that will run aero smoothly.
 
lloose said:
Videocards are static right now because there is no new technology to drop prices. 8800gts/gtx's will hover around the same price until ATI releases a real release date. The lower cards will follow suit.
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I don't think so. High end GPUs are never price stagnant. 8800's have been dropping at a rate of ~$40-60 a month. It is usually the low end of the market that doesn't move very rapidly because the product is more of a commodity and there is less wiggle room in the margins.
 
arcturus said:
7900GS models haven't changed in at least at month, in fact
they've gone up a bit.

Sub $140 before rebate looks like a ways off.
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I got mine for $155 AR a few weeks so that is getting pretty close anyway. The card is well worth that much money IMHO.
 
(one month later) ...

Prices still not budging. Rebate the only way to get sub $150 prices short
of open box. No competition? What's ATI have that competes with this card
at a lower price?
 
I got my 8800GTS out of open box. It ended up having everything the retail had, so I guess I got lucky. It works great, and it was nearly the same price as a few of the 320MB varieties.

I have a feeling that we aren't even going to see a price drop when ATI releases their next cards. You know they are going to be high as hell, given the specs we've seen. My guess is that we won't be able to touch a decent DX10 card in the ~$200 range until late in the summer. That's just my guess, given the way prices have been lately.
 
arcturus said:
(one month later) ...

Prices still not budging. Rebate the only way to get sub $150 prices short
of open box. No competition? What's ATI have that competes with this card
at a lower price?
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Now that the Sapphire X1950GT is out, the 7900GS has real competition (see review on [H] front page), so prices on the 7900GS should begin to edge down again. And it also means you could buy the X1950GT instead and get a nice card. Of course, if nV starts hard-launching 8600 cards soon, you may wish you had got one of those instead.
 
(2 months later) ....

Still no change. Best at newegg today, BEFORE rebate, is still going to run $155 shipped as the initial outlay.

C'mon AMD, let's get the new ATI cards out the door promptly!
 
arcturus said:
(2 months later) ....

Still no change. Best at newegg today, BEFORE rebate, is still going to run $155 shipped as the initial outlay.

C'mon AMD, let's get the new ATI cards out the door promptly!
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I'm liking this! I paid $380 on my 8800GTS December of '06 and they're still in the same price bracket. :D
 
arcturus said:
7900GS models haven't changed in at least at month, in fact
they've gone up a bit.

Sub $140 before rebate looks like a ways off.
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Sub $140 before rebate? What are you looking for? An $89 7900gs with rebate? Going to have to wait a while on that one.
 
Susquehannock said:
Sub $140 before rebate? What are you looking for? An $89 7900gs with rebate? Going to have to wait a while on that one.
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Why no, $139.99 before rebate shipped would be just fine for a 7900GS, or maybe 'sub 140' was somehow confusing?
 
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