My local BEST BUY (Austin, TX) today had Radeon AIW 32MG DDR Retail for $199. They were not on sale as far as I could tell.
I just did a pricewatch search for Radeon All-in-Wonder, and they came up as low as $220 + $10 ground shipping for OEM model.
Now I'm no rocket scientist, but this seems like a pretty darned good deal. I have a Socket 7 MB with a 250 Watt power supply, so I decided not to pick one up for fear of purning out my AGP or PS, but I was itching to just pick one up for when I pony up the cash for a new MB.
Prices may fall, though, but if you are looking for one of these now, give your local Best Buy a call. Maybe the online thing would work too.
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UPDATE: I just went back to the BB in question. Those boneheads mislabled the cards. Price is, in fact, $299. They had the AIW in the row for the non-AIW 32MB Radeon, but had no tag for the AIW. The non-AIW tag said $199, but they had no non-AIW cards. I even talked to a Sales dude (on my first trip) there for about 10 minutes, and said "this is the best price I've seen on this card"... and he said something to the effect of cool... you should pick it up, etc. etc. So, not even he was aware of the mix up. On my second trip, I asked "is this really the price". This different sales dude checked, and brought out some new tags to put on the shelves to clarify. They don't even know what the prices are, and they work in that department. Ugh.
My fault and his fault. Very sorry about this. For some reason, BB doesn't put a pricetag on their PC stuff, like they do on DVD's and stuff. UGH. I boneheaded this one.
I've seen the AIW 32MB on Cheezbay for less than 200 bills
today though. I may go that route!
Sorry about that, DOOBIESNACK. Hope your trip wasn't in vain. Maybe you picked on some other good deal that you can inform us about.
I just did a pricewatch search for Radeon All-in-Wonder, and they came up as low as $220 + $10 ground shipping for OEM model.
Now I'm no rocket scientist, but this seems like a pretty darned good deal. I have a Socket 7 MB with a 250 Watt power supply, so I decided not to pick one up for fear of purning out my AGP or PS, but I was itching to just pick one up for when I pony up the cash for a new MB.
Prices may fall, though, but if you are looking for one of these now, give your local Best Buy a call. Maybe the online thing would work too.
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UPDATE: I just went back to the BB in question. Those boneheads mislabled the cards. Price is, in fact, $299. They had the AIW in the row for the non-AIW 32MB Radeon, but had no tag for the AIW. The non-AIW tag said $199, but they had no non-AIW cards. I even talked to a Sales dude (on my first trip) there for about 10 minutes, and said "this is the best price I've seen on this card"... and he said something to the effect of cool... you should pick it up, etc. etc. So, not even he was aware of the mix up. On my second trip, I asked "is this really the price". This different sales dude checked, and brought out some new tags to put on the shelves to clarify. They don't even know what the prices are, and they work in that department. Ugh.
My fault and his fault. Very sorry about this. For some reason, BB doesn't put a pricetag on their PC stuff, like they do on DVD's and stuff. UGH. I boneheaded this one.
I've seen the AIW 32MB on Cheezbay for less than 200 bills
today though. I may go that route!
Sorry about that, DOOBIESNACK. Hope your trip wasn't in vain. Maybe you picked on some other good deal that you can inform us about.
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