Sweet Jeebus! Unreal!

[Scout255]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/#982608161
I knew nvidia was going to raise their prices a bit since their is little competition but this is just friggen excessive. How many of you would pay _$700.00_ for a single freaking video card. I for one wouldn't want to pay over 400-500 (canadien) for a card.
Heres hopeing that this isn't true or that matrox comes out with the G800 ASAP, i really really need to upgrade and i don't want to support nvidia.

[Jammrock]

No competition? Hehehehe...that will change shortly :P

Jammrock

[CHHAS]

You too Jammrock ?
Damn all you who know more than the rest of us!

[Jammrock]

What makes you think I know more than you can't figure out yourself? I just read the forums and pay attention to the rumors. You should try it some time

Jammrock

[HedsSpaz]

If I were going to pay 700$ for a video card, it would be something from 3DLabs or a Diamond FireGL of some variant.

There is no way I would pay anywhere near that much for a consumer level card.

nVidia is going to have to revise it's dream of "An nVidia chip in every computer" if it intends to keep selling cards at this price.

[mdhome]

You are not missing much, I've been paying attention on this forum for about 8 months now and still not a dicky bird from Matrox about any new offerings.

regards MD

[cjolley]

Well, Well!
My G400 Max is starting to sound like a bargain again!
chuck

[Heiney]

The problem is, prices of old stuff aren't really dropping. Geforce DDR's are actually going up somewhat.

And G400's cost almost the same as when I bought mine Fall '99!

[Scout255]

Ba, if we payed attention to every rumor, we'd only be more disapointed. The last few were completely made up, and i know ant and greebe just enjoy taunting us

[Ant]

Ah but when I do it you can at least take comfort in the fact that I really don't know anything

[Thundrchez]

Yup, IMHO $700 is way too expensive for just a video card. I'd be very disappointed if I paid that much for a video card, and found out that it was intolerably blurry at high res and the drivers took shortcuts to compromise video quality even further.

I guess it is just the laws of supply, demand, and who's marketing is the top dog.

[superfly]

We'll know for sure this coming monday,hercules already has a cute flash animation about it too.

While i like playing games at high resolution and color depth,my Gf2 64meg is handling everything a play just fine at and paying 500$+ for a card that has at most a six month shelf life before it gets replaced with something even faster is dumb to say the least.

[Scout255]

Ooooooo, another bitch slap to the face from nvidia. Its gonna be released on the Mac first. Wonder what steeve jobs had to do to get the rights to do this!
arg......

[isochar]

I personally believe it was not Steve Jobs' idea to have it released on the Mac first.

Nvidia probably approached him...

They (nvidia) already have a fairly loyal base of PC buyers. This move was most likely done to gain the support of Mac enthusiasts. (Without fear of losing PC market share)

I do not remember the last time that anyone has released something "huge" on the Mac first... even ATI/3dfx products came out first/same time on the PC.

[xortam]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by isochar:
I personally believe it was not Steve Jobs' idea to have it released on the Mac first.

Nvidia probably approached him...</font>

I agree. As I said in the other thread, the top three new G4s came with MX boards and users were having problems with them. Apple had to start offering Radeons as an option. I think NVIDIA is probably bending over backwards to support Apple and gain the OEM business from ATI.