256mb Radeon X800 $188 Shipped at the Egg!

[RajunCajun]

Linky

I searched and didn't find this deal here, so here it is. I don't really need a card, but this is BY FAR the best price for what you het!!!

PCIe
256mb
256bit memory path
12 Pipes
OEM

 

[Amplifier]

Not bad.

 

[larry89]

wow? is this the "6600gt killer" lol

 

[KristopherKubicki]

CV and NE were flipping back and forth on it by a buck earlier today. It is a nice deal though:

http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=radeon+x800+-xt+-pro+-se+-xl

Kristopher

 

[RajunCajun]

I wouldn't say "killer", but it will beat up on it really bad! Roughly same price or $20 more for more power at higher resolutions and/or heavy filtering.

Heck, 6800NU are no where near this price - lowest I've seen was on a BFG for $200 last week. I like Nvidia cards, but would buy this one if I would not already own a 6600GT. Not really worth upgrading for this.

Looks like X800/6800 are finally starting to drop in price. Now if a 6800GT comes in close to $200 that might make me upgrade (though not really - I'd wait till next year).

 

[JuicyLucy]

Too bad ATI drivers are suck

 

[dew042]

Originally posted by: JuicyLucy
Too bad ATI drivers are suck

enlightening comments as always.....

dew.

 

[yekim]

Make sure you note this is the X800 not X800XL (I think this was larry's point). Contrary to the NewEgg user's review, this is not the '6800GT Killer.'

Hot if this is what you want, best I could find elsewhere is $232, so this is almost $50 cheaper.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: RajunCajun
I wouldn't say "killer", but it will beat up on it really bad! Roughly same price or $20 more for more power at higher resolutions and/or heavy filtering.

Heck, 6800NU are no where near this price - lowest I've seen was on a BFG for $200 last week. I like Nvidia cards, but would buy this one if I would not already own a 6600GT. Not really worth upgrading for this.

Looks like X800/6800 are finally starting to drop in price. Now if a 6800GT comes in close to $200 that might make me upgrade (though not really - I'd wait till next year).

No...this is PCI-E....which makes the deal smoking. Check pricewatch.....lowest is around $240 for this card...which is even lower than the lowest PCI-E 6800NU.

This is probably a price mistake, IMO.

 

[KristopherKubicki]

It costs the same at CV as well, and even though they use the same warehouse they don't use the same point of sale. It's not a price mistake.

Kristopher

 

[Chadder007]

This is about equal in performance to the regular 6800 right?

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
This is about equal in performance to the regular 6800 right?

Better. Same number of pipes but DDR3 instead of DDR1.

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: JuicyLucy
Too bad ATI drivers are suck

I used to say stupid stuff like that back when I owned a GF2.

Drivers are not an issue with ATI or Nvidia these days. I'd like an 850XT or a 6800Ultra and the first one under $200 is my next videocard.

 

[user1234]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: RajunCajun
I wouldn't say "killer", but it will beat up on it really bad! Roughly same price or $20 more for more power at higher resolutions and/or heavy filtering.

Heck, 6800NU are no where near this price - lowest I've seen was on a BFG for $200 last week. I like Nvidia cards, but would buy this one if I would not already own a 6600GT. Not really worth upgrading for this.

Looks like X800/6800 are finally starting to drop in price. Now if a 6800GT comes in close to $200 that might make me upgrade (though not really - I'd wait till next year).

No...this is PCI-E....which makes the deal smoking. Check pricewatch.....lowest is around $240 for this card...which is even lower than the lowest PCI-E 6800NU.

This is probably a price mistake, IMO.

smoking? as in blowing smoke ?

the msrp is $199 so this is not blowing smoke up anyone since it's only 5% below msrp. You could always get it for msrp at the national chains. Just because of shortage in intial avalialbility doesn't mean it really costs $250 or whatever gougers were charging for it. This just means that very soon everyone will sell this for this price and then you will see the really good deal (e.g. $175 or less)

 

[ponyo]

Wow. Smoking price. At this price it's no brainer over 6600GT.

 

[jiwq]

DEAD deal. Up to $245 now.

 

[imported_whatever]

umm... it looks like $245 now. dead deal i guess.
edit: b10

 

[RobsTV]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool

Originally posted by: JuicyLucy
Too bad ATI drivers are suck

I used to say stupid stuff like that back when I owned a GF2.

Drivers are not an issue with ATI or Nvidia these days. I'd like an 850XT or a 6800Ultra and the first one under $200 is my next videocard.

I was the same way in the GF2 days, as it was true.
Now, things have flipped.
ATi has better drivers with more features that make a difference.
Started around the time of the 9700's.
nVidia has started to catch up some this year, but ATi still has a slight edge in best drivers and cards.
Latest nVidia drivers lastest about 15 minutes before I yanked that crap and installed old.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: user1234

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: RajunCajun
I wouldn't say "killer", but it will beat up on it really bad! Roughly same price or $20 more for more power at higher resolutions and/or heavy filtering.

Heck, 6800NU are no where near this price - lowest I've seen was on a BFG for $200 last week. I like Nvidia cards, but would buy this one if I would not already own a 6600GT. Not really worth upgrading for this.

Looks like X800/6800 are finally starting to drop in price. Now if a 6800GT comes in close to $200 that might make me upgrade (though not really - I'd wait till next year).

No...this is PCI-E....which makes the deal smoking. Check pricewatch.....lowest is around $240 for this card...which is even lower than the lowest PCI-E 6800NU.

This is probably a price mistake, IMO.

smoking? as in blowing smoke ?

the msrp is $199 so this is not blowing smoke up anyone since it's only 5% below msrp. You could always get it for msrp at the national chains. Just because of shortage in intial avalialbility doesn't mean it really costs $250 or whatever gougers were charging for it. This just means that very soon everyone will sell this for this price and then you will see the really good deal (e.g. $175 or less)

Where can you get this for $199 at a retail chain?

Anyway, looks like I was right and it was a price mistake.

 

[KristopherKubicki]

I called some people who work at NE, they said it wasn't a mistake; they just had limitted quantity.

Kristopher

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
CV and NE were flipping back and forth on it by a buck earlier today. It is a nice deal though:

http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=radeon+x800+-xt+-pro+-se+-xl

Kristopher

that doesn't seem to pick up newegg's housebrand, rosewill.

 

[Lithan]

Personally I never had problems with ATI drivers in windows. But I like Nvidia's drivers better, esp since they have such good linux support.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
I called some people who work at NE, they said it wasn't a mistake; they just had limitted quantity.

Kristopher

You mean they had a bunch of excess and wanted to clear it?

 

[jpeyton]

eBay prices for this hover around $200-$220, which makes this deal warm to semi-hot.

And Newegg doesn't do price mistakes. I'm not sure how, but I've never caught a pricing error on their site.

I'm curious if the GDDR3 on this X800 is the same 2ns memory on the X800 Pro. X800 SE's also have their memory set at 700MHz, but it's regular GDDR.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
eBay prices for this hover around $200-$220, which makes this deal warm to semi-hot.

Not including shipping.