Speculation request: DX9 card price drops?

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Cintirich

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I'm just curious. With my new system, I bought an eVGA 7600GT. I know that I won't be able to afford a dx10 card upon release, but I was thinking, since I'll have until mid-January to participate in the Step-up program, how much should the current high-ish end cards go down by then? I'm thinking that with the new line releases from both ATI and NVidia and with traditional post-holiday price drops, I should be able to upgrade to a better card for a pretty good price.

Any thoughts on this? I'm not really familiar with pricing trends with graphics cards, especially when a new DX# comes into play.

Thanks!
 
Cintirich said:
I'm just curious. With my new system, I bought an eVGA 7600GT. I know that I won't be able to afford a dx10 card upon release, but I was thinking, since I'll have until mid-January to participate in the Step-up program, how much should the current high-ish end cards go down by then? I'm thinking that with the new line releases from both ATI and NVidia and with traditional post-holiday price drops, I should be able to upgrade to a better card for a pretty good price.

Any thoughts on this? I'm not really familiar with pricing trends with graphics cards, especially when a new DX# comes into play.

Thanks!
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Yes and No!

Yes, because with next generation cards, the previous gen cards will be cheaper.

No, because with next generation cards on the market, the production of previous gen cards doesn't exist anymore, leaving only the remaining stock of e-tailers, etc, mostly leaving you with the choice of buying a "second hand" card.

My suggestion is: if you favor NVIDIA, as soon as G80 is out, try to buy a 7900 GTO/7900 GTX/7950 GX2. The prices will be adjusted and you should be able to buy one for something like $200/$250/$350 respectively.
If you favor ATI, you should be fine until the end of the year to buy one of their current cards, since their next gen chip - R600 - will only debut next year.
 
Everyone's saying prices will drop when G80 comes out.

But prices are dropping now, in anticipation of G80 - they are trying to clear out stock. So we shouldn't expect a huge drop once G80 comes out, you're seeing the effect already.
 
i've noticed that they tend to let the high end cards sell out rather than dramatically drop the prices.
 
Thanks for the input! Like I said, it's just speculation and I'd have to wait and see anyways. It would be pretty nice if I could get a GX2 on the cheap though...dare to dream. :)
 
just buy the 8800 GTS, should be around the price of X1950 XTX maybe also close to the EVGA 7950 GX2.

However, I do not see the prices dropping significantly with the new release, but like all computer equipment, prices always drop slowly.
 
I dunno, don't see prices going down drastically anytime soon. The only two DX 10 cards coming out will be the GTX GTS (if that's it's name). I think prices on high end DX9 cards will stay were they are at untill faster then DX9 high end... er slower variations then DX10 come out.

I just don't see how the uber price of 2 high end cards are going to dictate the price of every other high end DX9 card. Prices may adjust but you wont' be seeing X1950XTX's for $250.
 
jonathonball said:
i've noticed that they tend to let the high end cards sell out rather than dramatically drop the prices.
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QFT. 6600GTs and the like drop like stones (typically after you've just bought one), but even today you can still buy 6800 Ultras for close to the original price, new. (I checked quickly on a NZ site, $900 NZDollars. 7_8_00GTX? $900 - $1000 NZD.)

With high end stuff (like FX cpus) it seems to be a mark of status that prices stay high, even if that means you make a net loss.
 
I've followed a lot of video card releases over the years, and not once have I ever seen the price of existing cards drop when the new ones come out. The current cards lose value and get cheaper in the weeks and months leading up to the release of the new card as people decide to wait for the new stuff instead, but by now the prices have dropped as much as they're going to. Don't bother waiting for the 8800 series to come out before buying a current gen card.
 
arthur_tuxedo said:
I've followed a lot of video card releases over the years, and not once have I ever seen the price of existing cards drop when the new ones come out. The current cards lose value and get cheaper in the weeks and months leading up to the release of the new card as people decide to wait for the new stuff instead, but by now the prices have dropped as much as they're going to. Don't bother waiting for the 8800 series to come out before buying a current gen card.
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I think that's very true.

look how much prices have dropped in the last month? X1900XTX's were going for $275, x1950pros for $165, 7900GTOs for $250. This was the big price drop.
 
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