GeForce 2 Ultra for $799 us - more than my entire system. This is crazy

[NicColt]

I saw this at hardwarezone.com - CREATIVE GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB DDR(250MHz Core/460MHz Memory) is now available in selected shops @ $799 for limited pieces. The retailing price will be above $820 once the promotion stocks run out.

 

[Windogg]

Whoa!!!! All that for a card that will be obsolete in 6 months.

Windogg

 

[NicColt]

btw that would be $1,039.00 Cdn at least. what is this world comming to.

 

[GT1999]

Multiwave Direct has it for $475.. soOOOo much cheaper.

Oh, but it's OEM.

Talk about an overpriced product..

 

[Akaz1976]

Cdn price at 799USd is gonna be more than 1200 as C$ has fallen bellow 1.5

Edit*****Duhh!!!!! that cant be right , that too much *****

 

[Robor]

I think I'll stick with my $296 (to the door) 64MB Retail Radeon.

Rob

 

[Jumpem]

They have retail GTS Ultra's for only $499 on pricewatch. By the way, they are the Hercules models.

 

[resinboy]

I thought I was insane spending 270 on a Creative g2 gts 64 mg

 

[snow patrol]

I think you can get the Creative Ultras for ~$460

 

[fkloster]

<< Whoa!!!! All that for a card that will be obsolete in 6 months. >>



What do you mean 6 months??? Try 3 months...

 

[Maverick2002]

man.......makes me feel better about my $150 mx.......heeh

 

[ForeverSilky]

WTF? I don't get it. Why are video card prices rising? Shouldn't they be getting cheaper to make?

 

[snow patrol]

It won't be obsolete in six months, it'll still be a very fast card. They'll just be even faster ones available then

 

[Finality]

They are somewhat. The DDR line of cards use expensive RAM which is keeping the prices up. GTS Ultra is an extreme of course.

 

[Geeforcer]

Hardwarezone:

&quot;CREATIVE GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB DDR(250MHz Core/460MHz Memory) is now available in selected shops @ $799 for limited pieces. The retailing price will be above $820 once the promotion stocks run out. &quot;

Before anyone is driven to suicide by $820 price tag, take a look

here:

&quot;Blk 20, Ayer Rajah Crescent,
#09-04/05, Technopreneur Centre,
Singapore 139964&quot;

SGD Singapore Dollars= 0.57 USD. 0.57*820=$476.

You see, things are not as bad as they seem.

 

[Radboy]

Anybody planning on getting one?

 

[snow patrol]

No chance.

 

[Noriaki]

Ouch...
I'll also take my $300 delivered to my house Radeon 64MB Retail (thanks TaylorD)

As of 18:00 EST 10/31/00 the exchange rate is $1 USD = $1.5203 CDN
Ouch..$800 US is just a tad over $1200 CDN.

A friend of mine just built a Duron 600 system for less than that.
he has a 600, 128MB of RAM, a Voodoo3-3000 (not the greatest, but hey it still works) and a 20gig 7200rpm hard drive....

that's a pretty respectable system for less than a video card...

 

[snow patrol]

Noriaki - I don't think that Radeon would do much good in your 486 dx2 66

 

[SSP]

LOL @ snow patrol

 

[DirkBelig]

I paid $310 for my 32MB GTS waaaaaaaaaay back in May and when paired with a P3-933, I'm getting 97 fps in Q3 and an ave. 60-80 fps in UT (Loki OpenGL hack with the S3 textures). All games at 1024 rez, max eye candy. Schweeet.

I can wait for the NV20.

 

[Syborg1211]

This definitely makes me feel worse about me spending 350 for my brand new technology geforce 256 3d prophet ddr-dvi. But oh well, overclocking helped me surpass the performance of many gts cards.

 

[Zalen]

Thats only a little bit more than my Banshee was when it was new... yea right.

 

[dawheat]

so is it $479 USD or 799 USD? I thought it was 799 singapore dollars.

 

[Lore]

Looks like I'll be keeping my Matrox G400 Max for just a little while longer!