Originally posted by: xenolith
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: Shuzzy
doubt it. maybe by spring though, when the next line of high end cards will prolly be released.
Agreed. Barring a pricing error, don't expect to see a GT for $300 for at least a year...probably 1.5 years. Even then the newest cards will just be clocked slightly higher and will be DX10 compliant, so the GT won't be devalued much.
Really? 12 to 18 months? I'd think it'd be much sooner, especially since the price has gone down by as much as 50 bux in a week. I know the MSRP is $400, but because demand has outstripped supply for so long, online retailers were regularly asking $430 or more for these GTs. I can't help but think once inventories swell, prices will continue to be more competative, like we're seeing now...
The price has not gone down $50 in a week. The overinflated price gouging is coming to an end...there's a big difference.
There will be numerous Nvidia cards released over the next year, but they will all be budget cards. So the GT will remain the flagship for the next year so there's nothing to comparativly devalue it. Also, the hardware that goes into a GT including 256MB of DDR3 (256MB of just DDR2 will cost you $100) and the hardware video encoder are expensive features.
NV50 will come out next year, but it will be a 9700Pro --> 9800Pro or GF2 --> GF3 type of performance gain so the GT will match up value-wise very well with cards based on the new chip.
Obviously this is pure speculation, but with this card doubling, at least, the performance of the $200 9800Pro and offering more features and future-proofing and coming out during a banner year (6/04 -6/05) for PC Games, it's even appealing to people who never thought they'd pay more than $200 for a video card because they can see this card running games very well for the next 3-4 years.
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