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Will vid card prices drop significantly between now and Christmas?

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spazntwich1

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Oh, this is painful. The upgrade bug has bit me on the ass, and is holding on tenaciously.

I built my computer (just check my rig) this summer, but decided to use my Geforce2 MX I had been given the last Christmas. While my 1ghz processor and 8KHA are not nearly top performing parts, the only activity that could be considered "intensive" I use my computer for is gaming, so I'm thinking a graphics upgrade is the only thing really limiting my framerates.

Recently, my friends have all built systems (with my help 😉), but their parents paid for the entire thing. They got high end graphics cards like GF3s ad Radeon 64meg SEs.

Needless to say, I am unbelievably jealous, and my video card feels less and less adequate by the day.

I've still got a pile of 400$ left from my summer job (I'm still just a poor young teenager), and I can spend most of it, as my gas money is covered and the like.

If I do upgrade, I can handle the decision as to what I should get myself. 🙂 The thing is, I need to know if I should just upgrade now and be done with it, or if prices ever drop significantly closer to christmas.

Do they? Or would I be better off getting one of those spiffy GF3 Ti 200's w/4 or 3.8 NS ram right now?
 
Maybe you can sell your current video card and then buy a pny gf3 ti 200 for 175.00. I hear that card is pretty "spiffy". You wouldn't be out too much money then.
 
You're exactly right! I hadn't even thought about selling it...

As for which GF3 Ti200, I'm seriously looking at the PNY one. The gainward is nice too, I'm sure, but it doesn't have ramsinks. Have you seen the Inno3d one yet though? The kinds of OCs people are getting out of it's ram make it look like it's 3.8ns, which would be sweet, and if I get it from ocies.com, I can get it for 197$ shipped, versus 185$ for the PNY.
 
So does anyone know if prices on electronics generally fall right around Christmas? It's as late as I'm going to possible wait to upgrade, so if prices don't drop significantly before then, I might as well move now!
 
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