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is it my imagination, or have 6800 card prices gone up?
Please correct me if I'm wrong...
There have been posts linking to 200$ geforce 6800 OC cards, but isn't
this a myth now? The cheapest I could find after combing priceline and
epinions.com(another great site) is 315$ for the 6800 OC, and 250$ for
the 6800 LE. I found a dead link on outpost.com to a 250$ 6800 OC, so
the price of the 6800 series seems to be going up!
It seems the business plan for nvidia goes:
1)offer new line of cards at extremely high prices to get the impulsive
rich buyers to bite(not a lot of sales here).
2)after they're done buying, and all the articles and benchmarks have
flooded the internet and magazines, offer crippled versions such as
6800 OC, and the 6800 LE, with only 8 bits.
3)the gamer sees the benchmarks and his jaw drops. He goes to
priceline or epinions or such, and sees someone is selling "that card"
for only 250$!!. But there is no clear system for labeling the cards,
and you practically have to buy the card before you are 100% sure of
what you're getting. Sellers like newegg, tigerdirect, monarch, etc
all bury their LE cards into the priceline categories for "6800", and
they also usually don't make it clear on their sites what you're
getting. Even if the card buyer does figure out what he's getting, he
can't easily find a site to review it's performance. Sites such as
tom's hardware benchmark or the others have already done their
benchmark reviews on that line of cards, so they've moved on. Only the
card buyer willing to invest much time will finally find out what the
real deal is, sometimes having to actually call the seller to confirm
exactly what edition of card they're getting - but that buyer still
doesn't know what performance exactly they'll get out of the card!
4)after the new mystery cards come out, the card makers/sellers see
what the demand is,...if strong demand they pump up the price to what
buyers will tolerate, as they are now. The demand went up as buyers
understood how to overclock them, so they raised the price.
The highend cards are actually only there to make the buyer think
they're getting a "modestly" priced card, as most sales are of the
"modestly" priced cards....until the highend cards become the modest
ones.
The ONE, and only ONE, salvation for the card buyer, regarding figuring
out the mess, is THE INTERNET FORUMS LIKE THIS ONE!
is it my imagination, or have 6800 card prices gone up?
Please correct me if I'm wrong...
There have been posts linking to 200$ geforce 6800 OC cards, but isn't
this a myth now? The cheapest I could find after combing priceline and
epinions.com(another great site) is 315$ for the 6800 OC, and 250$ for
the 6800 LE. I found a dead link on outpost.com to a 250$ 6800 OC, so
the price of the 6800 series seems to be going up!
It seems the business plan for nvidia goes:
1)offer new line of cards at extremely high prices to get the impulsive
rich buyers to bite(not a lot of sales here).
2)after they're done buying, and all the articles and benchmarks have
flooded the internet and magazines, offer crippled versions such as
6800 OC, and the 6800 LE, with only 8 bits.
3)the gamer sees the benchmarks and his jaw drops. He goes to
priceline or epinions or such, and sees someone is selling "that card"
for only 250$!!. But there is no clear system for labeling the cards,
and you practically have to buy the card before you are 100% sure of
what you're getting. Sellers like newegg, tigerdirect, monarch, etc
all bury their LE cards into the priceline categories for "6800", and
they also usually don't make it clear on their sites what you're
getting. Even if the card buyer does figure out what he's getting, he
can't easily find a site to review it's performance. Sites such as
tom's hardware benchmark or the others have already done their
benchmark reviews on that line of cards, so they've moved on. Only the
card buyer willing to invest much time will finally find out what the
real deal is, sometimes having to actually call the seller to confirm
exactly what edition of card they're getting - but that buyer still
doesn't know what performance exactly they'll get out of the card!
4)after the new mystery cards come out, the card makers/sellers see
what the demand is,...if strong demand they pump up the price to what
buyers will tolerate, as they are now. The demand went up as buyers
understood how to overclock them, so they raised the price.
The highend cards are actually only there to make the buyer think
they're getting a "modestly" priced card, as most sales are of the
"modestly" priced cards....until the highend cards become the modest
ones.
The ONE, and only ONE, salvation for the card buyer, regarding figuring
out the mess, is THE INTERNET FORUMS LIKE THIS ONE!
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