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We've been able to secure secure some early performance numbers and picture on NVIDIA's pending 7800GT card which is said to debut at this year's QuakeCon. The card should retail for $399.00 - making it the clear winner in bang for the buck over the GTX cards. Additionally, we suspect to see a price move on the GTX cards as well.

Our friends at The Inquirer have posted some early specs on the GT as well - most notable is that it's a 20pipeline GPU.
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mike2h

wonder how soon we will see prices drop further on 6800 cards?

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mike2h

hey! cds dont burn & neon!! remember our discussion about pricing a couple of weeks ago?

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CDsDontBurn

very interesting .

oh, and mike....i do remember, it's where i was arguing with you about the prices of the 7800GTX that i couldn't find any for less than $599 but you did and the price difference was less than $150, but i was persistant saying it wasn't and then you pwnt me and i apologized to you saying that i'm a moron sometimes.....that one right

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mike2h

you are no moron. on any level.
this going to make pricing very interesting in the next few months. especially when ati does their release. they are either going to have to release a card that completly kicks butt on 7800(& i think nv is sandbagging) or release their card(s) at below normal release price to compete with the pricing of nv7xxx, which should be even lower by then-though not by much.

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CDsDontBurn

cool....i'm not a moron

man, you have no idea how much i want ATI to launch their r520. I would upgrade my system to get one of those in a heartbeat . Well....second doubting myself here, maybe not in a heartbeat, but i would seriously consider one . But then i would have to upgrade my whole system, and by doing that, i'd have to go A64, sell my p4 stuff and my 6800GT and my pimp ass MoBo....or give all that pimp stuff to my little sister ......zoi

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mike2h

and that just would not be cost effective. you have a very fast rig there that can run anything now & for at least the next year or 2. & you have room for a minor speed increase with another gig of ram.

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The_Neon_Cowboy

You won't becouse nvidia is "waiting on depleteing thier stock of 6800's"
before releaseing the GT

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mike2h

you posted this nonsense before.in fact it was in the thread i was referring to. you had it wrong then & you still got it wrong, unless you think all those 6800s are going to be gone by next month?
now i would bet they are/have been scaling down production of the ultras & maybe a little bit on the gt side. but they are not going to completely do away with 6800gt just yet, it fills that $300 slot nicely.
when they start anouncing scaled down vers of the 7800 chip then we will see a bigger scale down.
but they are not going to wait to get the 7800 gt out the door until the the resale channels have been massively depleted of 6800s makes no sense on too many levels, especially now that the tide appears to be changing direction towards nv again as far as ati goes.
neon what exactly do you think is going to be nvidias top of the line card for agp? that is a massive market & will be for years.
now your statement makes a little sense if you apply it to pcie only, but that is not what you meant. & until those cheaper 7800s come out they still need something to fill the gap between 6600 & 7800.
neon, you are familiar with speed binning right? they dont just have a line that makes only 6800gt chips, while it would be orientated that way, it is also spinning out ultras & reg 6800s.

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CDsDontBurn

really, the only upgrades i want to do to my rig at the momment, are to get another SATA HDD (400Gb or larger), a set of nice speakers, and a good DVD burner (ATM i have a 4x -R DVD burner). Another gig, i wouldn't get until further down the line, and it would be hard to get two more of the same revision memory sticks i have right now.

Oh yea....and one of the guys at work is trying to find somebody to sell him an AGP version of the x850xtpe, and if he finds one, he'll sell me his x800xtpe for $200 . If that falls into my lap, i'm thinking of getting rid of my 6800GT. That i think is a worthwhile upgrade

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bug77

About card pricing, all I see is new record highs
Just wait and see the R520 prices (those respins aren't free...)

And yes, I heard this as well that nVidia isn't going to launch the 7800GT and other versions until they get rid of the current stock.

mike2h

dm10 on the hd plex 716a for burner the card deal would probably be a no brainer. you could get a significant portion of that back by selling the gt.

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mike2h

not sure wha tyou are talking about with 'record highs' 6800 gts & ultras are at all time lows & 7800 gts can be had for less than $550 & the price is still dropping.
do you relise how long it would take to get rid of current stock even if they stopped production today?
what you 'heard', & it is the same thing neon keeps getting wrong, is that they are not going to release a vanilla 7800 until 6800 stock is down. i do not know if this means all 6800 based gpus, or specific types of the 68xx - ie pcie or ultra.
as i mentioned most of this above, not sure why i am repeating myself. i will repeat myself on this one to- do you think nv is going to take themselves out of the high end agp market( which also happens to be the largest market by far right now & for at least another year or 2)? as of now nv has set forth no plans to bridge the 78xx to the agp platform.

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