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Price drop on geforce6600 gt

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Dufrane

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Is there going to be a significant price drop on the grforce 6600 gt (AGP) in the near future??? I am looking to buy a new video card around May.
 
If your going to wait until may, the new cards should be outby then (paper launched at least), so yes, there probably will be a price drop.
 
Few things in life are certain, but video cards dropping in price is one of the safer bets.

The ATI X700, X800, and X850 families are all a bit overpriced at the moment due to demand outstripping supply. ATI is just now getting X800 and X800XL cards to market in quantity (actually they just make the graphics chips, Sapphire and Apollo actually make and ship the cards), so prices are still a bit higher than the projected MSRPs.

As ATI continues to ship product, prices will drop as inventory levels stabilize. ATI will also begin shipping higher-end X800 series AGP cards for the first time. Lower prices and greater supply for ATI parts will put pressure on Nvidia's partners to lower prices. They will also face competition for high end AGP orders for the first time in quite a few months.

Bottom line - as ATI prices drop, Nvidia prices will likely drop as well. May should be a very good time to be shopping for a video card.
 
Thanks for the input. If the Vanilla 6800 drops as well and is only 40-50 dollars more which one would you buy. The rest of my system is a A64 3000 (skt 754) with 1 gd of pc3200 ram
 
How much more do you want it to drop? $200 is cheap for a videocard. Even if it drops to $100, is $100 worth waiting until May??? If it is, then you are not ready for an upgrade since you are not frustrated enough with your lacking performance yet. (What videocard are you planning to upgrade from?)

A videocard should be the most expensive individual component of a system if you are a gamer. Your best bet will be to buy $280 6800GT by May.
 
I think some prices will be dropping after CeBit, early March, so even then might be a good time to wait for. ATI is supposed to be announcing their bridge chip then or before then. That should immediately put some pressure on NVidia's AGP offerings, especially considering rght now they are at a premium to the PCI-e versions (6600 GT and down).

Anyway, I'm lookign for a new video card as well,and I'm basically going to wait until CeBit and assess what's happening at that point. For myself, i don't think I can wit until May, though I agree may should be the bigger of the two months in terms of price cuts.
 
Actually I was reading elsewhere on the boards about taking a PCI-E 6200 card and softmodding it up to a 6600. From there you can overclock it to a 6600GT. Guy posted a screen cap that showed his GF6200 posting like a 3DMark 05 score of 3100 points or something crazy like that.

Considering that NewEgg is offering the Gigabyte 6200 128Mb 128-bit PCI-E card for $99, that would be a pretty attractive option. I don't have a clue how to "soft-mod" a 6200 though, but I'm sure information would be easy enough to find.

If you don't want to mess around with overclocking and soft-modding your video card, the current pecking order would be:

6800U>6800GT>6800>6600GT>6600>6200>6200TC

Pick the highest priced card you can afford to live with and go with that.
 
Originally posted by: crazyeddie
Actually I was reading elsewhere on the boards about taking a PCI-E 6200 card and softmodding it up to a 6600. From there you can overclock it to a 6600GT. Guy posted a screen cap that showed his GF6200 posting like a 3DMark 05 score of 3100 points or something crazy like that.

Considering that NewEgg is offering the Gigabyte 6200 128Mb 128-bit PCI-E card for $99, that would be a pretty attractive option. I don't have a clue how to "soft-mod" a 6200 though, but I'm sure information would be easy enough to find.

If you don't want to mess around with overclocking and soft-modding your video card, the current pecking order would be:

6800U>6800GT>6800>6600GT>6600>6200>6200TC

Pick the highest priced card you can afford to live with and go with that.
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Easisest way to soft-mod the 6200 is by using RivaTuner - I'm actually considering the same thing for the AGP version. Any 6200 can do, as long as it's not the TC version. Do keep in mind though that there's no guarantee that the unlocked pipes will work however.
 
you cant overclock a 6600 vanilla to GT speeds unless you have uber cooling on it or something...believe me, i've read up...but 6200 to a 6600....thats awesome....i can understand that
 
But what makes me curious is that why aren't the 9800Pro's dropping? I remember everyone saying these things would begin to drop once the 6600GT's came out. But the 9800Pro's are still $200. I think they were on sale in the Sunday's fliers for $179 this past week. What gives with that?
 
9800pro is still a great card. It's not that far behind the 6600GT, and it's ATI replacement isn't out yet.

If the X800SE AGP were for sale, I think the 9800pro would be a lot cheaper.
 
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