GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"

[Tom|Nbk]

Geforce GTX 260 to sell for $399

To quickly go to $349



Price wars have already started. Nvidia already dropped GTX 280 to $499 and it looks that GTX 260 will sell for $399.

Nvidia is still telling its partners that $399 is the launch price for Geforce GTX 260 but it looks that this card will quickly go down to $349. With $349, GTX 260 looks much more attractive and it will do well against $329 priced Radeon HD 4870 but as we suggested once ATI feels threatened it will simply drive the prices down.

Nvidia sells Geforce 9800GTX at $299, which means if GTX260 price goes down, Nvidia has to drive 9800GTX down too. Radeon HD 4870 beats 9800GTX and there is your problem. At this point, at least when it comes to the average selling price of Nvidia cards, we simply have to say DAAMIT what have you done.

 

[Things change I've changed]

Where did you get that information from ?, no link ?.

 

[Richdog]

It's all on Fudzilla.

 

[Dutch Guy]

If you see DAAMIT it's from Fudzilla and if you see Nvidia bashing to the extreme it's the Inquirer

 

[wolvers]

It's all on Fudzilla.

it must be true then

 

[easyrider]

The 280 will be around £399 +


If not I will run around the froums naked!

 

[~>Dg<~]

The 280 will be around £399 +


If not I will run around the froums naked!

hope that is you in your sig then

 

[HeX]

The 280 will be around £399 +


If not I will run around the froums naked!

Mate of mine who runs a component shop has said his suppliers have informed him that the 280 will be 'Over £300 but under £400', thats ex VAT.

So even best case scenario of £300 ex VAT that is £350 inc VAT...

Which is highly unlikely.

Worst case scenario of £399.99 ex VAT that is £470 inc VAT

Putting mid point of £350 ex VAT at ~£410 inc VAT

 

[Tom|Nbk]

it must be true then

To be fair they were mostly right about a lot of the R600 speculation. I'm inclined to believe SOME of what they write.

 

[martian_aphid]

rip off

 

[Things change I've changed]

So when will they be up on the the site then ?, no pre-order ? and do we know if the supplies will be plentiful ?

I hope Gibbo looks after us, every penny counts, to us !!

 

[pugheaven]

G200 to sell for $99 and G280 for $199 for 7 day probabation period:

After seeing numerous benchmarks of the ATi/AMD 4570 recently released nVidia are preparing for a 7 day special during the initial week of their release of the upcoming series 9 cards. An initial batch of 5000 cards is being distributed to retailers at this moment in time, with a quoted retail price of $199 for the top of the range 280 and $99 for the lesser G200 model. The price will then be increased to the "normal" $299/$399 as originally expected

:source http://www.illbelieveanythingontheninternet.co.uk

 

[shep_no_platinum]

If they cost more than £400 inc VAT i am just going to buy 2 more 8800 Ultras and run them in Tri Sli or just have Dual Sli and buy one more Ultra from the bay for £190 brand new.

 

[wolvers]

hope that is you in your sig then

You can't see the areas that matter in that sig though..........there could be anything down there!

 

[shep_no_platinum]

at the end of the day the Ultra is still one of the most powerful cards out there to be fair. Were not talking bang for buck but performance.

 

[Azza]

XFX Force GTX 280 card pictured

 

[Devious]

looks nice!

 

[Skyboat]

God that's ugly

 

[Talrinys]

God that's cool

 

[J.D]

that's ugly

I'm with you on that one. That looks hideous. I don't ever expect cards to look good as that's just sad but I do think this one looks worse than most. Like someone has placed a box on a PCB with some nice colours.

Ach, as long as it runs the games how Nvidia want them to be played after the devs have been paid . That's all that matters .