Graphic Cards Gfx market gone crazy - at least in US

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hatter

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Last night surfing through Newegg after reading about price drop on GTX series and made this list.

This is without mail-in-rebates as MIRs do no good to people here who get the cards through dealers here. BTW with MIR, 3870 sells for $100. That too one with zalman cooler!!!

The list is made with keeping single GPU set-up in mind. Each card in this list has amazing value and power that does not really get reflected through their prices. Never before so much of GFX power was available for so cheap. All of these cards can deal decently with almost all games presently available at a 22" monitor. This is just awesome.

Entry level gaming :O



3850 at $100. Newegg.com - DIAMOND Viper 3850PE3512O Radeon HD 3850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards



9600GT at $120

Newegg.com - Foxconn 9600GT-512 GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

Also: 3870 is at $125 and 8800GT (OC) is at $150

Mainstream: Hd 4850 all the way. Lowest at $188.

Newegg.com - PALiT AE/48500+T352 Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

For reference, cheapest 9800GTX is at $196

Performance

4870 all the way. Cheapest is Newegg.com - VisionTek 900244 Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards at $295

For reference: Cheapest GTX260 is Newegg.com - XFX GX260NADF9 GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards at $299.

If 3D Mark 06 is the only game you play :)P ) here is very nice deal: Newegg.com - ASUS EAH3870X2/G/3DHTI/1G Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards at $270

High-end: Premium for extreme performance kicks-in here and price/performance ratio takes a beating. These cards are not right choices but if you insist...

9800GX2 is a good buy at $420 (green thieves :p )

For reference, cheapest GTX280 is at $450

3850 for less than $100 (I am sure it won't be more than Rs 6K)... amazing value :hap2:

PS:
You linked to Zotac 9800GTX for 4870.
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Thanx Gurpartap. Link corrected
 
Whoa! 3850HD @ $100! That won't be more than Rs.5k through KMD. I got mine for 7.5k in the day but now it's "entry-level" in 6 months. :) Great show by AMD and nVidia!

As Morgoth has said, the least of these cards is powerful enough to drive almost all 2007-08 games on a 22" monitor peacefully!

This is VFM!
Payne
 
Ohh GOD why not in INDIA ?

the prices are dropping so much that...they might end up giving GPU for FREE:rofl:
whatever it may NVIDIA still needs price drop at GTX260 & GTX 280 .

9800GTX is qute well placed.
 
I have a friend coming back from US in 2 week's time. Which card would you guys suggest for me ? Budget is $100 to $150(max)

My current config is as below

Pentium D 2.8Ghz

Asus P5LD2VM SE Mobo

2GB DDR2 667Mhz RAM

250GB SATA HDD

XFX 8400 GS (which I will sell or move to another PC)

iBall 400W PSU (LPE-223 400)

17" LCD (1280x1024 max)

I know my proccy is a major bottleneck. I might upgrade the proccy/mobo and the LCD (to a 22") later, but not immediately. Which card do u guys suggest? Which is the best deal ? If I can get a card with low power consumption (so that I can continue to use my 400W PSU ...doubtful...I know) it would be great :)
 
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