What should the 9800 GX2 sell for now?

[DaveSimmons]

Reading the AnandTech 4870 review it's an excellent card for $300 and unlike the 4850 has a decent cooling solution.

But in every game tested the 9800 GX2 offered better performance. The GTX 260 is slower and the GTX 280 is laughably overpriced, but the GX2 could be strong competition to the 4870 if nvidia wakes up and reprices it to match the other 8800/9800 price drops.

So, what price would it need to be to lure you away from buying a nice 4870 or case heater 4850 instead?

 

[IlllI]

i cant believe you took the time to create a poll about this. it wont matter what people's opinion is, they will price it however they want to.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Why not? We discuss many more useless topics in this forum

I'm just curious what value people place on the GX2'ss better performance. Earlier today I was thinking "I should get a 4870" but now I'm thinking "I'd rather have a GX2 at $350, maybe even $400."

 

[Sylvanas]

For the price of a GX2 you could Crossfire 4850's (and still have money in pocket) that demolish it or if you are set on a dual GPU card just wait for the 4870X2.

 

[MarcVenice]

Gx2 doesn't always offer better minimum framerates. I think 300$ is about right.

 

[HannibalX]

Were people buying the 9800 GX2 anyway?

 

[Blitz KriegeR]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Were people buying the 9800 GX2 anyway?

Yes.

The 9800GX2 was a damn good card when it first came out. For those of us not willing to go with an NVIDIA chipset (ie no 9800GTX SLI) it offered high performance at a reasonable price.

If I had to get another one right now, I'd probably be willing to pay ~$375 for it.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Gx2 doesn't always offer better minimum framerates. I think 300$ is about right.

also am not a particular fan of SLI/CF in any form...$300 would be just about right for me as well, although not necessarily even then because of additional power consumption, heat, and noise (it might not be that much worse than a 4870 as far as power consumption, but I can throw an Accelero S1 on a 4870, and eliminate heat and noise all in one)

 

[JPB]

I voted for the $350 price. And if it were that price, I would have one today :thumbsup:

 

[BurnItDwn]

It should cost about the same amount as a pair of 9800GTX cards.
9800GTX cards should be priced around 150-175 if they want to attempt to compete with the 4850.

So, I'd say between 300 and 350 would be an appropriate price for the 9800GX2.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Prices are dropping: newegg has several GX2 cards at $420-430, and a PNY that's $395 after rebate.

It should cost about the same amount as a pair of 9800GTX cards. 9800GTX cards should be priced around 150-175 if they want to attempt to compete with the 4850

Makes sense, though for new systems you can save $50-100 on a motherboard by getting a simpler P43/P45 for the GX2 that doesn't have Crossfire or SLI support. And you can add the GX2 to existing non-SLI/CF boards.

That advantage will be gone once ATI comes out with their own X2 cards of course.

 

[Stabgotham]

Lol..."$500 because I ride a helicopter to work."

That's so damn funny....and true! :laugh:

 

[Denithor]

It's funny, 2 x 9800GTX in SLI costs $400 and will destroy the GTX 280 (while saving $250), beats the 9800GX2 in most benches (at $100 less), and rivals 2 x 4870 in some cases (at $200 less) -- granted, mainly where SLI scales better than CF. Of course, you have to have an SLI board to run this setup, but it's some serious GPU power for $400.

 

[badnewcastle]

I think for the current product mix it should sit between $400-450 because it's clearly better then other options out there unless you have SLI. If you have SLI you won't be buying one anyways or you ride in a helicopter to work and you can afford 2 of them at whatever the cost. For a single card option it's a good deal to get one for $450 or less as I remember a couple GTX models being more then that. being more then that.

 

[CP5670]

I would not pay more than $300 for the GX2. Its benchmark performance in several games is misleading, as it's minimum framerates are often similar to a single 8800GTS 512 even when the averages look much higher. The 4870 and other single GPU cards will have more consistent performance across the board.

 

[jamstan]

What something should sell for and what it actually does sell for are 2 different things. Example is the GTX280. The 9800GX2 is dropping in price. What I wonder about is what is Nvidia going to do about the GTX280? Nvidia already had a prob with the cheaper 9800GX2 dusting the GTX280 in most cases and then ATI comes along with the 4850 and 4870.
Not a good week at Nvidia. Probably wont get any better for Nvidia when the 4870X2 cards come out. With this stiff competition its a good time for us. I love watching those prices drop drop drop. Video cards have been overpriced for way too long. I personally dont like the Nvidia marketing ploys. They had the 9800GTX+ cards built but waited for people to buy the 9800GTXs before they came out with the faster card. Only reason they put the 9800GTX+ out when they did was to counter the ATI 4850. People who paid 369 for a GTX then probably got upset when a faster card came out a month later and was cheaper. Nvidia did the same thing with the 8800GT--After millions bought the GT then Nvidia came out with the GTS pissing off the people who bought the GT who would have bought the GTS had it been out. My hats off to ATI for bringing out the 4850 and 4870 a week apart at realistic prices. When you see how Nvidia has drastically dropped the price on its 9800GTX then you should know how much Nvidias been ripping people off, pricewise. I guess ATI is changing that now.