GeForce GTX 200 Series Price Drop In Effect
Many GeForce GTX 280 cards have also dropped in price too. As you can see here, the $499 we quoted last week was right on the money, and a number of others are priced only slightly higher at about $519 to $539. And MSI's offering is priced even lower at $459 thanks to a $40 mail in rebate.
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I'd still rather get a Radeon 4870 over a GTX 260, so the latter is still overpriced. $500 for a GTX 280 isn't too bad for a top tier card now-a-days, I guess. |
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Whatever the market will bear. Nvidia has gotten away with charging well over $600 for their top tier cards because we the consumers have consistently forked over the cash... shame on us!!! |
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Hi All Agreed, however up to now the Redteam didn't have a viable alternative. With the release of the 4800 series Nvidia knows they can't get those type of prices anymore. |
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I dont like MSI. Im waiting for soem mroe price cuts, then im buyign GTX 280, and SLi-ing with 8800 GT if thats possible. |
Nope. :( BTW: My GFX card is MSI and it worx just fine, why don't you like MSI?
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Agreed -- MSI makes quite stable MoBos and GFX cards; That said, I would say its a toss up between them and Gigabyte. |
Never really thought about it, but I think you're right. |
Years ago MSI received a black-eye for selling motherboards with bad capacitors. I had the honors of replacing such a motherboard in my neighbor's PC! |
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,aimly because of their designs on the cards. I love XFX and e-vga designs. not a good excuse...i should sell my gfx card to raise money for this card. |
The designs/layouts of the cards are all 100% the same when it comes to nVidia cards which is why you can SLI any card of the same model (regardless of manuf.) together -- the only real difference is how these manufactorer set the clocks/timings of the cards. In general XFX and E-VGA like to give you higher-clocked cards, and Gigabyte/MSI tend to get you tight-timed and lower clocked cards. So really its between brute-force speed or raw stability |
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There's another difference you didn't mention... those niffty stickers on the shrouds! ;) |
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I DID forget to mention that! Also, the fan designs are sometimes a little bit different -- I have yet to figure out the enginuity of those single-slot fan/card designs....you know what I am talking about; they that blow hot air back into the case as opposed to venting it to the rear. Makes me mad..and confused |
Yeah... they're usually not very efficient. I hope their reasoning isn't just to save a few pennies on the production of each card. Going back to the sticker issue for a sec: I'd gladly pay 50 bux more for a card with a pic of a hot chick on it instead of a robot, a logo or something else lame like that!!! lmao
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Hi All I think their reasoning behind the single slot cooler is that it being a mainstream card It would appeal to more folk, especially folk with HTPC's that don't have a lot of room. $50.00 huh. Don't let Nvidia hear that. I'm sure they're looking for a excuse to bump the prices back up. You know them dropping prices has to be eating into their profits. |
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but designs i meant the sticker on it. my bad. |
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I only wish my 680i had a PCIE 2.0 slot... :( |
Really? You'll see it once, when you install it. Then never again, why do you care what the image in the fan shroud is?
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