DirectX11 cards cause a price drop?

Maybe, depends on the pricing scheme. But I would guess it would cause some of the higher end cards to decrease in price a little.

nows a good time with the new 4890 4770

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 0HD%204870

Don't worry about spath, he is just bitter about everything.

I'd imagine the old gen cards will be very cheep, but the low end dx 11 cards will probably be no more expensive (think 5850), and much easier to find.

Of course that will depend.. There is no telling what release prices of 5000 and 300 series will be... ati and nvidia could surprise us all with 500 dollar starting prices.... (doubt it though)

Ive heard all this before, this same tired argument was said with Vista and DX10.

Anyways, DX11 cards are set around Q4 2009/Q1 2010, personally I dont think its worth waiting if you need something right now. Just snag a 4890 or GTX 275. As far as the prices go, I wouldnt expect prices to drop when the DX11 cards hit as said prices will have already dropped by then as they get older.

Silver.. you can spend all day trying to change his mind and just annoy all of us, or we can drop it forever now.. in a couple years we can worry about I told you so's when games start using DX 11 exclusively. Spath is well within his rights to suspect the usefulness of a new MS os given their great luck with releasing XP and vista....

The topic of the thread is will dx 11 drop prices on dx 10.. and the answer is.. I don't have a time machine.. but everything gets cheaper as it gets older.. so yes? but probably not directly... if you need something now.. buy it now.. whatever it is there will be something better for less cash in 6 months or less.

understood but this is a discussion and i am well in my right to respond to him knocking something i have a different opinion about

well see, i dont know when i'll have the money. as it stands, i'm thinking a 4850 X2 card this fall, but if i do get a job, i'll prolly be getting it in the summer, still the same card maybe (i still might have to get a new case/psu).

1 thing i want to clear up

-would dx10 cards support dx11 on a software level. I remember running a DirectX9 game on a DX7 card...(Radeon 7500)

but i doubt they would leave out a DX10 option right.. seeing that now we still have dx9 games. I realize certain games that are based off graphics eye-candy only might but a mainstream game like Call of Duty would never do that correct?

A thread about forum members staring at a gpu price graph. I think some of you should go watch paint dry or something.
DX11 cards are not yet out, actually they are just rumours(nothing specific confirmed by the respective companies) and we have people discussing their imaginary effects on gpu prices?!

i'm not sitting here and trying to guess. i'm trying to gather an idea of what will happen from people's past experiences here and what i could possibly expect. u can watch paint dry if u want

but it doesnt matter how good the DX11 cards are. when they come out, no matter what happens DX10/10.1 card WILL be old technology. which always (most of the time) gets cheaper.

i think it has personally every thing to do with it. If you had a DX 11 and a DX 10 card with the same performance, which would u get? of course the dx 11 card. now how could they possibly try to sell them to you at the same price, no one would buy the old cards, therefore a price drop occurs. Basic economics. please, i don't want any other pessimistic comments about how it doesn't matter. make your own threads about how dx11 doesn't matter, i want to hear opinion on how much it will drop, not if it will