Pricing Cycle?

[lt_wentoncha]

Hi all,

I've been out of the loop for a year and a half but I'm just getting apprised again of video cards and prices. I'm looking at a 8800GTS at the moment and a cursory search yields that the evga is the way to go (replacing BFG 6800GTS). With respect to pricing cycles, is there a pattern where prices usually go down in summer or by season? I'm moving in June so March is the latest when I can finish my complete system upgrades; would prices be cheaper then than they are now? I'm looking to get http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130071 since it's got a nice rebate...just not so sure if it will be cheaper in March/April.

Much obliged for reading and replying.

 

[ShiningHolden]

Hi all,

I've been out of the loop for a year and a half but I'm just getting apprised again of video cards and prices. I'm looking at a 8800GTS at the moment and a cursory search yields that the evga is the way to go (replacing BFG 6800GTS). With respect to pricing cycles, is there a pattern where prices usually go down in summer or by season? I'm moving in June so March is the latest when I can finish my complete system upgrades; would prices be cheaper then than they are now? I'm looking to get http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130071 since it's got a nice rebate...just not so sure if it will be cheaper in March/April.

Much obliged for reading and replying.

Uhh, as the 8800GTS though... I believe, currently, the 8800 series is the top of the line, DirectX 10 stuff.

nVIDIA is making mid, and lower range, 8600 and 8400.

Right now, the price of the 8800's are dropping, due to the R600s launch coming up. The R600s are expected to be, at your door, mid February. The expected drop is, 30 dollars or so.

As for a cycle that, keeps going, I am unsure. All I know is that pretty soon, there will be a noticeable drop.

The prices are already dropping, from when the 8800s were the phattest loot, and everyone who needed one and didn't care about price, wanted one. So they jacked up the price. I wonder why?

 

[clayton006]

Generally speaking,
With computer hardware, if there is some competition, or a newer product being released, over time the price will drop. It just depends on how strong the competition, or how different the new product is.

So yes, there may be a drop in price by that time. I hoping so for my next system build. We will just have to wait and see

 

[Zinn]

More likely we'll be looking at a refreshed part in that time; the 8800 GTS and GTX will probably be discontinued in favor of a cheaper to manufacture 90nm part, and there will be faster cards in the same price range (with used GTS and GTX cards going for cheaper)

At least this is what happened with the 7 series.

With the 6 series, prices stayed stable all the way through and no refresh occurred. But I don't see this happening with the 8 series because we already know that Nvidia is working on 80nm parts, and competition will get really fierce once AMD releases the R600.

In short, by this spring we'll be looking at better, probably cheaper cards.