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<$75 dollar video cards

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Is it just me, or has the <$75 dollar video card market basically stayed stagnant for the past year? My video card is so old, a GF2 GTS-V and I paid about 50 dollars for it. But even today, there's nothing a lot faster at that price.


 
The budget market is amess.

Since the 8500LE, ATI has released the 9000,9100,9200 - all either slower or identical. And 3rd party vendors are actually releasing even lower-clocked versions.

Nvidia came out with the 4 MX which can't do even minimal pixel shading, and some of them have crippling SDRAM. And now there's the FX5200 -not exactly a speedster anyhow- being released in carefully concealed 64-bit versions.
 
The budget market is amess.

Since the 8500LE, ATI has released the 9000,9100,9200 - all either slower or identical. And 3rd party vendors are actually releasing even lower-clocked versions.

Nvidia came out with the 4 MX which can't do even minimal pixel shading, and some of them have crippling SDRAM. And now there's the FX5200 -not exactly a speedster anyhow- being released in carefully concealed 64-bit versions.
 
so is this going to change in the next couple months or is it gonna stay this way for the foreseeable future?

 
An 8500 should be noticably faster than your GeForce 2, and a GeFurb 4 4200 more so. Don't forget that IQ increased as well, so it's not just speed we're paying for.
 
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