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Are we to expect a huge price drop in GeForce4 cards as soon as ATI 300 hits?

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Mears

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Want to know since I'm putting together a couple computers for some people before they head back to school and also upgrading my own. After reading Anand's review, I'd love to get my hand on that card, but at $400 msrp it's a little out of my range.
 
Yes, because it will be NVidia's only course of action to take (besides releasing all sorts of "paper tigers" on the NV30). How much and when is anyone's guess though.

What's your current video card? If it's equal to about GF3 cards, the GF4 line doesn't offer much in the way of an upgrade so in that case I would suggest waiting a little longer for the Radeon 9500 (slightly lower clocked, half the pipeline version of the 9700 I think) which should debut at about $200. If you've a GF2 or older though, it would be a good decision to wait a bit for the Ti4400 to fall in price and then OC that sucker to 4600 levels.
 
Like with any hardware (except for RAM.....argh!) prices will drop continuously until production stops. Once the R300 hits the shelves, nVidia will drop the GeForce to a standpoint to be a competitive "value" card in comparison to the R300. It should to about $100 or more under the R300's introductory price. Then it'll drop more once NV30 comes around.

This is insane - in 4 months time, a GeForce 4 will be considered a value gaming card! 😱
 
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