Author Topic: Crap time to buy a video card (Read 1152 times)

tig|Bosco · « **on:** June 23, 2005, 01:33:42 PM »

Some new gear from NVidia is about to hit the shelves. Expect cards that currently cost $250+ to drop in price by 25-33% by autumn.

[TiG]jalls · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2005, 01:56:55 PM »

Gonna wait for ATI's 24 pipeline cards I think.

[TiG]Lucutus · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2005, 02:28:25 PM »

Have an Asus x800 on order.

It's always a crap time to buy a gfx card. There's rarely a win with PC hardware.

[TiG]valen · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2005, 03:17:35 PM »

Quote from: [TiG]Lucutus

Have an Asus x800 on order.

It's always a crap time to buy a gfx card. There's rarely a win with PC hardware.

Totally agree Luc.

tig|Bosco · « **Reply #4 on:** June 23, 2005, 03:57:37 PM »

There's never a golden time to buy as gfx cards will always depreciate very quickly, but buying right before a huge price drop is surely a worse time than most.

Don't worry Luc your x800 will still put ours to shame for months yet

[TiG]Devil_Monkey · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2005, 04:50:16 PM »

Yeah, of all the cards to buy, X800 looks a pretty good value buy atm.
The new 9800 of this generation possibly.
Price is one thing, staying powre is another.
And ATi has been doing well in that department.

=Warmonger= · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2005, 02:14:57 PM »

i got my ASUS RX850 XT yesterday, ummmmm, sweetness

tig|Bosco · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2005, 02:01:47 PM »

JES now have PNY branded 256mb 6800GT AGP cards available for ?239, down from the 330-360 euro mark a week or two ago. Expect other NVidia brands to follow suit on pricing soon, and ATI brands to respond shortly after.

It'd nearly make a person want to pick NVidia over ATI... Nearly :wink:

Author Topic: Crap time to buy a video card (Read 1152 times)

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