is the price of video card going to drop

[ben]

i was planning on buying a video card and i was wondering if the prices were going to drop soon. from you know like a new card or something and i was probabley going to get either a gforce fx 5600 or a 9600 xt

[yg60m]

Oh yes it will cetainly drop, it depends how long you're ready to wait

[crazidude]

I heard that new cards are comming out in Feb from ATI and in march I think nvidia is gonna come out with their new line. They're gonna be annouced soon so if you could wait a month it'll drop lower.

[SFDMALEX]

Dont buy any FX card unless your getting the 5900.

They are shit, slow FPS, the Geforce 4Ti's smoke them. The only advantage they got are the dx9 goodies.

[zevolv]

The New ATI's are by far the best cards 9800 XT is better than the top Nvidia. I've compared them both on the same machine. There are new ATI's out this week but they aren't a new level it's just new All-in-wonder for the 9800 and they all have new boxes. If you want a good deal just go to www.pricewatch.com

[SFDMALEX]

Originally Posted by zevolv The New ATI's are by far the best cards 9800 XT is better than the top Nvidia. I've compared them both on the same machine. There are new ATI's out this week but they aren't a new level it's just new All-in-wonder for the 9800 and they all have new boxes. If you want a good deal just go to www.pricewatch.com

He is not in the price range of a 9800.

[veteq]

Well, also depends on the game,
after finishing Halo on the Xbox I decided to go for the PC version. Initially I tried it with the standard ATI 9200 that I had in my system. The result was not impressive. Having only used ATI cards for the last few years, I went out and got a ATI Radeon 9600XT, better speed but not great. I took it back and got the ASUS GeForce FX 5600 128MB, what a difference...HALO runs great.
Some games seem to be optimized for a specific video cars, that might be the case with HAlO.

[zevolv]

Actually halo runs great on my 9800XT I prefer to stick to the newer stuff. I prefer the ATI's after using Nvidia's for years but after having one in my Mac I had to change and they are amazing. the driver support and updates are way better with ATI also.

[Minacious]

Originally Posted by zevolv Actually halo runs great on my 9800XT I prefer to stick to the newer stuff. I prefer the ATI's after using Nvidia's for years

Ditto

[crazidude]

lol you're comparing a 9800xt a 5600 obviously the 9800 will run better, but the 5700u is doing pretty good. Although I'm not sure how it does in dx9 games.

[scubywrxr]

wait for the new nvidias and ati cards to be released in about 6-8 weeks .. prices of the topend will drop drastically

[itsthepham]

Does anyone know anything about the new ATI and Nvidia cards coming out. I'm awaiting as well to get either a 9800 Pro or the 9600 Pro/XT or whatever. I just wanna see a price drop damnit.

[crazidude]

I know that the new cards comming will be faster, but probably not by a whole lot.

[black_magician]

I've seen Ati's burn up, get an Nvidia FX 5900, theres a couple floating around on Ebay