GeForce 7800GTX Prices Dropping Like a Rock

[KristopherKubicki]

Topic pretty much says it all. It looks like this weekend was a regularly scheduled cut:

http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=7800gtx

Kristopher

 

[Avalon]

Good stuff. $535 is much better than $600.
MSI or PNY...I'd have to go with MSI, the lesser of two evils.



$15 cheaper too. Pretty hot.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Nice. Could have got the 7800GTX for $521 yesterday from Dell and didn't bite, so I'll hold off again, but no tax and free shipping from eWiz is HOT! First deal for under $500, I'm in.

 

[Averox]

Please don't drop to $400 because you will put me in one of those antsy "OH GOD GOTTA BUY BUT TOO POOR!" spots.

 

[boriqua]

Its a shame that we have been already conditioned to think high end cards are a great deal at 530 bucks!

 

[SwiftWind]

I also heard they plan to sell toned down versions of the 7800gtx next week with 24 pipelines instead and gpu at 335mhz...with prices around 400. Its been floating around other forums.

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: boriqua
Its a shame that we have been already conditioned to think high end cards are a great deal at 530 bucks!

To some people it is a great deal. These things aren't cheap to make, you know.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: boriqua
Its a shame that we have been already conditioned to think high end cards are a great deal at 530 bucks!

Who's being conditioned? The Price for the MSI is around $40 lower than the lowest price on froogle last I checked. Anything significantly under the lowest market price for any item is considered hot.

Quit with the thread crapping.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: boriqua
Its a shame that we have been already conditioned to think high end cards are a great deal at 530 bucks!

What's even funnier is that a system built with this card combined with an X2 processor and 2 GB ram and RAIDED Raptors still costs less than my Pentium 166 system I bought 9 years ago.

 

[Auryg]

All other technology prices have dropped, other than video cards and sound cards, right?

I seem to remember the voodoo 3 being 300 dollars, and my 9700 pro when it came out was 400.

 

[KristopherKubicki]

Auryg: Don't forget CPUs

Kristopher

 

[blckgrffn]

nice, keeping sinking, baby!

Nat

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor

Originally posted by: boriqua
Its a shame that we have been already conditioned to think high end cards are a great deal at 530 bucks!

What's even funnier is that a system built with this card combined with an X2 processor and 2 GB ram and RAIDED Raptors still costs less than my Pentium 166 system I bought 9 years ago.

Seriously, I wish people would stop bitching about the cost of these new cards.

At high resolutions, the 7800 kicks every other cards ass by a wide margin. The next closest performer would be 6800 Ultra SLI, which would cost you at least $750.

 

[Greg04]

Originally posted by: boriqua
Its a shame that we have been already conditioned to think high end cards are a great deal at 530 bucks!

Are you old enough to remember spending $300 on a piece of junk Matrox Millenium? This is a bargain

 

[Plester]

my last car cost $500.

 

[js186]

*yawn*

wake me when Newegg is sell these things for $200

 

[cyrax78]

Actually I'm really not sure on the price of production for vid cards anymore. I used to think that it was really high but apparently the production cost for the Playstation 3 is only $500. Considering that it's the NEXT gen RSX card using 256 megs of XDR ram, the cost can't possibly be more than $200 to Sony for the card (remember it's also using a 3.2 CELL processor along with 7 SPE support processors, another 256 megs of GDDR3 ram, blu-ray DVD drive etc).

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Greg04

Originally posted by: boriqua
Its a shame that we have been already conditioned to think high end cards are a great deal at 530 bucks!

Are you old enough to remember spending $300 on a piece of junk Matrox Millenium? This is a bargain

Or $300 on a DX2-66, $350 on a 345MB hard drive, $640 on 16MB of EDO RAM, $450 on a 2X Plextor CD burner, etc, etc, etc! I owned a Matrox Millenium coupled with a Diamond Monster 3D - about $400 or so more to that list.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: cyrax78
Actually I'm really not sure on the price of production for vid cards anymore. I used to think that it was really high but apparently the production cost for the Playstation 3 is only $500. Considering that it's the NEXT gen RSX card using 256 megs of XDR ram, the cost can't possibly be more than $200 to Sony for the card (remember it's also using a 3.2 CELL processor along with 7 SPE support processors, another 256 megs of GDDR3 ram, blu-ray DVD drive etc).

Economies of scale, junior. PS3 is a guaranteed at least 2,000,000 sales for NVidia (possibly much more). If their profit margin is $10 per unit, they're still making mad lewt. Plus computer add-on cards require the PCB and HSFs and shelf space in storage and pretty boxes and marketing and upfront investment of capital to stock and accessories and software bundles and are shipped three or four times between manufacturers and distributors and retail and consumers. Plus the RSX is still in development, so the process will be more refined, thanks to cards like the 7800GTX, before they start actually producing them for the real PS3s.